1945 to 21st Century

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Victors and Cold War

The United Nations -- the founding, Roosevelt's hopes denied and the veto

Victors against the Defeated -- retributions, expropriations, occupations

The Media and Tokyo Rose -- aroused passions against a fictitious enemy

The UN and Independence Movements -- Asia and Africa to the early 1960s

Cold War: 1945-49 -- Stalin, Europe, the U.S. and revolution in China

The Korean War -- occupation, China intervenes, negotiations

Cold War: 1953-60 -- communism and the Eisenhower years

Cold War: 1961-75 -- from President Kennedy to the fall of Saigon

End of the Cold War and the Soviet Union -- From Brezhnev to Yeltsin

Latin America and New Directions in the U.S. and Europe

Latin America -- Peron, Cuba to 1960, Argentina, Chile, et cetera.

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

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

Failed Radicals in Europe -- unrest in France, Germany, Italy

Democracy and Dictatorship in Greece -- to 1974

Yugoslavia Disintegrates -- 1919 to the war in Kosovo

Africa and Asia

Africa into the Nineties -- from the 1960s to 1994

Japan, Hunger, New Attitudes and Mishima

China from Mao to Deng Xiaoping -- from collective agriculture to the capitalist road

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

India and Pakistan -- Democratic India. Untouchables. The Islamic Republic of Pakistan

The Middle East

Jews and Arabs from WW2 to 1979 -- Israel, Suez, Qutb, Faisal, Wars, Sadat, West Bank and Gaza

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

The Middle East, 1979-2000 -- the Siege of Mecca, intefadas, to the attack on the U.S.S. Cole

The Persian Gulf Wars to September 2003 -- from Saddam's rise to the beginning of Gulf War Two

Economic Development and Welfare States

Postwar Britain and U.S. to Thatcher and Reagan

Other European Welfare States to 1988

Japan, Economic Recovery and Welfare to 1988

Economic Progress in East Asia and Australia to 1988

Post Soviet Union to Clinton and Bush

China's Socialist Market Economy

Economies, Crises and ideologies, to 2010

Science and Philosophy

Freedom and Theories of State Power -- the state as master of conflicts and compromise

Evolution, Science and Biology -- up from Charles Darwin, and Creationist theory

Genetics and Human history --  has the human gene pool been declining?

Linguistics Wars -- Chomsky, Lakoff and Pinker

Knowledge and "Postmodernism" -- limits to knowing. Edmund Gettier. John R. Searle

A Few Philosophers, beginning with Albert Camus -- goes on to Sartre, Arendt, Heidegger, Popper and A.J. Ayer

Judge Not -- a modern interpretation of commonly misinterpreted ancient Christian wisdom

Inventing Morality -- the individual, the Roman Catholic view, moral relativism, government and democracy

Buckley, Rand, Kirk and Strauss -- conservative intellectuals from the 1950s

Religion

Religions and Freedom after 1945 -- Japan, Communist states, and new worship

Change versus Religious Conservatism in India -- declining traditional Hinduism

What Do Jews Believe? -- Fundamentalism, ultra-orthodox, orthodox and reform Judaism

Islam: Beliefs and Change into the 21st Century -- democracy, violence, divisions and fundamentals

Jim Jones and His People's Church -- to Jones' cool-aid at Jonestown in Guyana.

Trends in Christianity -- radio, television, non-denominational celebritihood, theology, the Apocalypse

Justifications -- a believe in reason and a belief in no justification needed

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