1946 to 21st Century

Victors and Colonialism

Victors against the Defeated -- retributions, expropriations, occupations

The United Nations -- founding, purpose

The U.S. and British in Asia, to 1960 -- withdrawal from colonialism

Independence for Indonesia -- the Dutch fight but lose a colony

French Colonialism -- Madagascar, North and Subsaharan Africa, Indochina and Algeria

Black Africans into the Sixties -- socialism and free enterprise

The Cold War into the Sixties

The Cold War Begins -- Truman, Stalin, Mao

Ronald Reagan in Hollywood -- Reagan versus communists

The Korean War -- occupation, China intervenes, negotiations

The Cold War, 1953-60 -- Eastern Europe, nuclear terror, Cold War mindsets

Cuba, Castro and Eisenhower -- Castro overthrows Batista, Eisenhower responds

Kennedy and the Bay of Pigs -- Illusions and failure

Cuban Missile Crisis -- a disagreement over what is defensive and offensive

Kennedy Assassination -- Lee Harvey Oswald

Che Guevara, 1960-67 -- revolutionary, Bolivia and death

Anti-Communism and Military Regimes in Greece and Indonesia

Democracy and Dictatorship in Greece -- to 1974

Indonesia and the Great Slaughter -- Sukarno loses power, 1965 to 1967

More Latin America, into the 21st century

Latin America into the 1960s -- general

Guatemala into the 1950s -- from Ubico, to the overthrow of Arbenz and the Armas regime

The Dominican Republic, Trujillo Juan Bosch -- the struggle for democracy

Brazil into the 1960s -- from Getulio Vargas to the overthrow of João Goulart

Juan Peron and Argentina -- coup, Eva, decline and fall (edited Feb/2008)

Argentina, 1966-88 -- military dictatorship, murder and disappearance (edited Feb/2008)

Chile to the Overthrow of Allende -- 1932 to 1973

The Rule of Augusto Pinochet -- Chile, 1973 to 1989

Nicaragua to 1990 -- Somoza dictatorship, the Sandinistas and the United States

Civil War in El Salvador -- El Salvador from the early 1930s to 1992

Guatemala to the 21st century -- Civil war and democracy, from Reagan to Clinton

India and Pakistan to the 21st century

Untouchable in India: Bhimroa Ramji Ambedkar - a leader who lived from 1891 to 1956.

India and Pakistan to 1966 -- democratic India, the Islamic Republic of Pakistan

India and Pakistan to 2002 -- Kashmir, Hindus and Muslims, Pakistan's Sharif and Musharraf

Japan and China

Japan's Economic Recovery -- from hunger to economic boom

Mao's China -- leaps, Sino-Soviet dispute, Red guards and capitalist roaders

China under New Leadership -- Deng Xiaoping, Tiananmen troubles, ten years later

Racial Equality, Vietnam, and Unrest in the U.S. and Europe

The United States and Equal Rights, 1947-65 -- the human rights movement

The United States and Vietnam -- French and U.S. involvements, postwar opinions

Failed Radicals in Europe and Japan -- unrest in France, Germany, Italy, Japan's Mishima

The Sixties and Seventies from Berkeley to Woodstock -- Berkeley, the Panthers, dissipation

Jonestown -- Jim Jones takes his people to mass suicide

Africa into the 1990s

Idi Amin Dada Oumee -- Uganda to 1979

The Continent of Africa -- from the 1980s, population, politics and economies in general

Socialist Experiment in Tanzania -- to 1985

South Africa and the End of Apartheid -- from the 1960s to 1994

Algeria and Civil War -- the early 1990s

Rwanda and Ethnic Quotas -- from the 1960s to 1994

Children at War in Liberia and Sierra Leone -- Foday Sankoh and Charles Taylor, to 2003

New Directions in the West and East Europe

Religion from Vatican II to Hare Krishna -- new values, conservatism, diffusions and gurus

Political Conservatives in the West -- Hayek, Kirk, Strauss, Buckley, Ayn Rand, Reagan, Thatcher, Spain, Sweden

The Soviet Union Disintegrates -- Brezhnev, Gorbachev and reforms, freedoms in 1989 (edited Feb/2008)

Yugoslavia Disintegrates -- 1919 to the war in Kosovo

The Middle East

Arabs and Jews to 1950 -- from World War II to the creation of Israel

Jews Flee Arabic Homelands -- attacks on Jews and the disappearance of ancient communities

Muslims and Israelis to the 1967 War -- Muslim Brotherhood, anti-Western intellectuals, Nasser, crises

Israel, Occupation and Violence, 1967-76 -- Occupation of Gaza and the West Bank, Yon Kipper War, terror

Saudi Arabia, to the 1970s and Beyond -- modernization, 1974 oil embargo, foreign relations

The Iranian Revolution -- the Shah against dissent, victory for Islamic reactionaries

The Siege of Mecca and the Birth of al Qaeda -- summary of a book by Yaroslav Trofimov

Muslims and Israelis, 1976-88 -- Camp David, the U.S. in Lebanon, war in Afghanistan, intifada

Israelis and Palestinians, 1991 to 2000 -- Rabin, Suicide bombers, Arafat, Netanyaho, Barak and Sharon

Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda to 2000 -- from Afghanistan to the attack on the U.S.S. Cole

Saddam Hussein and War in 1991 -- from rise to power to Gulf War One

The Road to Gulf War Two, 1991-2000 -- Saddam Hussein and Iraq during the Clinton administration.

The Road to Gulf War Two, 2001 to March 2003 -- Road to war during the Bush administration.

Occupation versus Liberation -- Baghdad from April to September 2003

Ideological Trends into the 21st Century

Knowledge, Science, and Religion -- creationism, soul, epistemology, fundamentalism, change

Economic and Political Philosophy -- organizing and distributing wealth, the state, fanaticism.

The Linguistics Wars -- Biology, Communication and Clarity, from Chomsky to Lakoff and Pinker.

The Nation-States

Country profiles -- from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe

Health care measured by infant mortality -- as of July 1, 2007

Oil Consumption and Production -- by nation and per capita

Economic success and low corruption -- the top countries

Technology, food and well-being -- "economically challenged" countries

Fewest Murders per capita -- top ten

Religions with the most followers -- the top eleven

Freedom of the press -- global problem

An average day in the USA -- some happenings in a wealthy country