20th century : history as you've never seen it before / editorial consultant Richard Overy.

1900-09 (Anglo-Boer [Second Boer] War [1899-1902] ; Into the skies [1903] ; A century of flight ; Russo-Japanese War [1904-1905] ; First Russian Revolution [1905] ; San Francisco earthquake [1906]) -- 1910-19 (The Mexican Revolution [1910-1920] ; Race to the South Pole [1911-1912] ; A century of agriculture ; Imperial Chihna falls [1911] ; Votes for women ; The roa to World War I ; The Fronts are established ; Aircraft go to war ; The Gallipoli campaign [1915] ; The Somme [1916] ; Ireland's Easter Rising [1916] ; Arab revolt [1914-1919 ; The Battle of Verdun [1916] ; Revolution in Russia [1917-1922] ; The war ends [1918]) -- 1920-29 (Prohibition [1920-1933] ; A century of art ; Irish Civil War [1922-1923] ; The rise of Stalin ; Discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb [1922] ; Rise of modern Turkey ; The Great Depression [1929-1941]) -- 1930-39 ([Mahatma] Gandi resists British rule ; Rise of the Nazis ; China at war ; Mussolini invades Ethiopia [1936-1941] -- [English] Abdication crisis [1936] ; Spanish Civil War [1936-1939] ; The road to World War II ; From blitzkrieg to resistance) -- 1940-49 (Battle of Britain and the Blitz ; War in the Atlantic ; Barbarossa: Hitler invades Russia 1941] ; Attack on Pearl Harbor [1941] ; War in the Pacific ; The desert war ; D-Day [1944] ; End of the war in Europe [1945] ; Nuclear bombs dropped on Japan [1945] ; The Holocaust ; The Iron Curtain descends ; War in Indochina ; Independence for India and Pakistan [1947] ; A century of cars ; Berlin blockade [1948-1949] ; China goes Red [1949]) -- 1950-59 (The rock'n'roll explosion ; McCarthyism ; The decolonization of Africa ; Korean War [1950-1953] ; Hungarian revolution [1956] ; Suez crisis [1956] ; A century of cinema ; War in Algeria ; Che [Guevara] spreads the revolution) -- 1960-69 (Cuban missile crisis [1962] ; The swinging sixties ; Assassination of JFK [John Fitzgerald Kennedy, 1963] ; The struggle for civil rights ; Equality for Aboriginal Australians [1967] ; War in Vietnam ; Cultural Revolution in China [1966-1976] ; Six-Day War [1967] ; A century of music ; The year of protests [1968] ; Space race) -- 1970-79 (Decade of terror ; Founding of Bangladesh [1971] ; Rule of Idi Amin [1971-1979] ; The Troubles in Northern Ireland ; Massacre at the Olympics [1972] ; Chile in turmoil [1973] ; Yom Kippur War [1973] ; Watergate [1972-1974] ; Division of Cyprus [1975] ; Carnation Revolution [1974] ; Lebanese Civil War ; USA withraws from Vietnam [1975] ; Angolan Civil War ; Khmer Rouge ; A century of medicine ; Soviet-Afghan War ; Iranian Revolution [1979] ; Iranian hostage crisis [1979-1981] ; Nicaraguan Revolution [1979]) -- 1980-89 (Iran-Iraq War ; Soldarity movement ; Falklands Conflict [1982] ; A century of fashion ; Bhopal disaster [1984] ; Ethiopian famine ; Glasnost transforms the USSR ; Chernobyl disaster [1986] ; Revolution in the Philippines ; Fall of the Berlin Wall [1989]; Tiananmen Square [1989]) -- 1990- (War in the Gulf [1991] ; End of apartheid [1994] ; End of the USSR [1991] ; War in the Balkans ; UN in Somalia ; Te Chechen crisis ; Rwanda genocide [1994] ; A century of technology -- [Bill] Clinton impeached ; 9/11 and the War on Terror [2001] ; Global economic crisis [2008- ] ; Arab spring [2011-]