Provides An Account Of The Political, Socio-economic, And Cultural Developments That Have Shaped Global Events Since 1945. Pt. 1. The Cold War: Toward Soviet-american Confrontation. The United States As The Champion Of Liberty -- (woodrow Wilson, Address To The Senate, 1917 -- Henry R. Luce, On The American Century, 1941) -- Soviet Communism On The March -- (joseph Stalin On The Foundations Of Leninism, 1924 -- Jakub Berman On Communism's Appeal) -- The Cold War Takes Shape -- (american And Soviet Leaders Move From War To Peace, 1943-1946 -- Two Diplomats Assess The International Situation, 1946 -- Harry Truman, Address To Congress, March 1947 -- Andrei Zhdanov, Cominform Speech, September 1947 -- Responses To The Enemy Threat) -- The Cold War At Home -- Popular Antipathy Takes Hold, 1947-1948 -- Soviet Society Feels The Chill -- The Red Menace In The United States). Pt. 2. The International Economy: Reform And Revival. The Japanese Cope With The Devastation Of War -- (hiroshima Residents Remember Death And Destruction -- Japanese Letters To General Macarthur, Voices From The Ruins, 1945-1947) -- Europe: Here Come The Americans! -- (reinhold Wagnleitner Recalls His Youthful Infatuation With Things American -- Bertrand Russell, A British Intellectual Looks Across The Atlantic, 1951) -- The State And The Free Market -- (on The Virtues Of State Involvement In The Economy -- Friedrich Hayek, The Road To Serfdom, 1945 -- Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation, 1944) -- Reconstructing The Japanese And European Economies -- (japanese Foreign Ministry Blueprint For Postwar Recovery, 1946 -- George C. Marshall On A Strategy For European Recovery, 1947). Pt. 3. The Third World: First Tremors In Asia. China's Triumphant Revolution -- (mao Zedong Recounts His Path To Socialism, 1938 -- Mao On The Founding Of The People's Republic Of China, 1949 -- Peasant Perspectives On Poverty And Village Politics) -- Vietnam And The Path To National Liberation -- (ho Chi Minh On Communist Anti-colonialism -- Ho Declaring Vietnamese Independence, 1945 -- Vietnamese Peasants Reflect On Their Revolutionary Commitment) -- India On The Eve Of Independence -- (jawaharlal Nehru On The Origins Of His Social And Political Outlook, 1941 -- Gandhi And Nehru On Development Strategy, 1945 -- Nehru Reacting To Communal Violence, 1946 -- Rural Life: Land And Gender). Pt. 4. The Cold War: A Tenuous Accommodation. Reforming The Soviet System -- (nikita Khrushchev Recalls Life With The Elderly Stalin, 1970 -- Khrushchev On Stalin's Crimes, February 1956 -- Milovan Djilas, Indictment Of The New Class, 1956) -- Spreading Nuclear Fear -- (bertrand Russell And Albert Einstein On The Nuclear Threat, 1955 -- The U.s. Government Perspective -- The Soviet Perspective) -- Lyndon Johnson Goes To War In Vietnam, 1965 -- (johnson On The U.s. Stake In South Vietnam, April 7 -- The Debate Within The Johnson Administration -- Johnson On A Major Troop Commitment, July 28 -- Philip Caputo, Recollections Of A Marine) -- Youth Erupts, 1968 -- (stirrings In The United States -- Paris In Upheaval -- Massacre In Mexico City). Pt. 5. Abundance And Discontent In The Developed World. The Flowering Of Consumer Society -- (the United States Leads The Way -- An Anthropologist Tracks Changing Life In Rural France, 1957, 1964, 1974 -- Growing Up In 1950s Britain: From Scarcity To Affluence -- Richard Nixon And Nikita Khrushchev, The Kitchen Debate, 1959) -- Economic Culture And The Good Society -- (robert Schuman, Declaration On European Cooperation, 1950 -- Pope John Xxiii, Mater Et Magistra, 1961 -- Morita Akio, On The Collectivist Principles Guiding Sony, 1986) -- The Rise Of An Environmental Movement -- Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, 1962 -- Donella H. Meadows Et Al. The Limits To Growth, 1972 -- Indira Gandhi Offering A Third-world Perspective, 1972) -- Feminism In The North Atlantic World -- (simone De Beauvoir On The Second Sex, 1949 -- Now Statement On Rights For American Women, 1966 -- The Awakening Of The French Feminist Movement). Pt. 6. Third World Hopes At High Tide. Egypt Under Nasser -- (gamal Abdul Nasser, The Philosophy Of The Revolution, 1952 -- Nasser The National Charter, 1962 -- Sayyid Qutb On An Alternative Model Based On Islam, 1964 -- Amina Said On Women And The Revolution, 1973) -- Nkrumah's Vision For Ghana And Africa -- (kwame Nkrumah On Colonialism And Independence, 1942-45 -- Nkrumah On Unity For Africa, 1963 -- Nkrumah On Socialism For Ghana, 1964 -- Nkrumah Writing In Exile On Global Black-power Movement, 1968 -- Ayi Kwei Armah, The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born, 1969) -- Castro's Drive To Create A New Cuba -- (fidel Castro, History Will Absolve Me, 1953 -- Castro, Declaration Of Havana, 1962 -- Gabriel Capote Pacheco, A Popular Perspective, 1969-70) -- Sweeping Visions And Bold Strategies -- (frantz Fanon, The Wretched Of The Earth, 1961 -- The Maoist Revolutionary Appeal -- Ché Guevara On The Insurrectionary Impulse, 1967). Pt. 7. The Cold War Comes To A Close. The Struggle Over Détente -- (willy Brandt On Bridging The Two Germanys, 1969 -- Richard Nixon,on A Policy Of Détente, 1971 -- Ronald Reagan, Dubbing The Soviet Union The Focus Of Evil, 1983 -- Mikhail Gorbachev, Reassessing Soviet Foreign Policy, 1986) -- Gorbachev's Reforms -- (gorbachev, Recalling The Personal Origins Of His Reform Impulse -- Gorbachev On Glasnost And Perestroika, 1987 -- Elite Supporters Reflect On The Gorbachev Program -- Kgb Report On The Deteriorating Political Situation, 1991) -- The Revolutions Of '89 In Europe -- (critique Of The Polish Communist Party, 1978 -- Václav Havel, Power Of The Powerless, 1979 -- East German Workers On Socialism And National Reunification, 1990). Pt. 8. Global Markets: One System, Three Centers. Championing Free Market Orthodoxy -- (milton Friedman, Capitalism And Freedom, 1962 -- Margaret Thatcher, Promising Free Market Prosperity For Britain, 1977 -- Worker Anxiety In Reagan's Free Market America, Mid-1980s -- Bill Clinton On Nafta And International Free Trade, 1993 -- A Critical Mexican Perspective On Nafta, 1992) -- From The Ec To The Eu: Tightening European Bonds -- (thatcher, Principles For European Integration, 1988 -- Jacques Delors, Offering His Vision For European Integration, 1989 -- François Mitterand On The Prospects For An Integrated Europe, 1995) -- China's Authoritarian Capitalism -- (deng Xiaoping Champions Market Reforms, 1979-86 -- Students Criticize The Communist Regime And Its Market Reforms, 1989 -- Deng, Remarks To Military Commanders, 1989 -- Rural Support For Market Reforms And Political Stability, 1989). Pt. 9. Divergent Paths In The Third World. The Iranian Revolution -- (mohammed Reza Shah Pahlevi On The Problems Of His Regime, 1970-77 -- Ruhollah Khomeini's Islamic Challenge, 1963-80 -- Poster Depicting Khomeini Triumphant -- The Villagers Of Deh Koh And The Islamic Revolution, 1978-80) -- Guatemala's Brutal Civil War -- (mayan Women On Poverty And Cultural Autonomy -- Ladina Elites On Their Privileged World -- Interview With A Government Torturer) -- Israelis And Palestinians In A Fatal Embrace -- (statement Of Arab Views, 1946 -- Israel's Declaration Of Independence, 1948 -- The Palestinian Liberation Organization, National Charter, 1968 -- The Likud Party On Occupied Land, 1977 -- Hamas Promoting The First Intifada, 1988) -- Bringing Down Apartheid In South Africa -- (hendrik F. Verwoerd On The Essentials Of Apartheid, 1948 -- Nelson Mandela, Rivonia Trial Statement, 1964 -- Mark Mathabane On His Education In Violence, 1976 -- Breaking The Deadlock Over Apartheid, 1990). Pt. 10. In The Grip Of Globalization: The 1990s And Beyond. The Backlash Against Globalization -- (global Inequalities -- The Siena Declaration On Fundamental Structural Flaws, 1998 -- Multinational Corporations Ride Roughshod -- Dueling Over Globalization: Irresistible Juggernaut Or Dangerous Dogma, 1999) -- Confronting Climate Change -- (intergovernmental Panel On Climate Change -- India's National Action Plan On Climate Change, 2008 -- International Attitudes Toward Global Warming, 2009) -- Human Rights Spoken Here-and Everywhere -- (universal Declaration Of Human Rights, 1948 -- Debating Women's Rights, 1995 -- Regional Reservations -- Human Rights And The Environment, 1994). Pt. 11. Regional Diversity In A New Century. An Exceptional American Conceit -- (presidential Pronouncements On National Identity And Mission. -- Opinion Worldwide On The United States, 2012) -- The Middle East In Conflict -- (osama Bin Laden, A Declaration Of Jihad, 1996 -- Recep Tayyip Erdoğan On Turkey's Role, 2004 -- Voices From Tahrir Square, 2011 -- Bashar Al-assad, Defending The Syrian Regime, 2013 -- Hasan Rouhani, An Iranian Perspective, 2013) -- The Bric Bloc -- (an Establishment Intellectual On China's Rise, 2012 -- Vladimir Putin On Russia's Revival, 2012 -- Luiz Inácio Lula Da Silva, A Brazilian View, 2009 -- An India Establishment Study, 2012) -- Europe Loses Its Way -- (young People Reflect On An Age Of Austerity, 2013 -- Making The Popular Case Against Immigration -- Collective Views On Life In Hard Times, 2013). [compiled By] Michael H. Hunt, The University Of North Carolina At Chapel Hill. Includes Bibliographical References.