Aspects Of World History In Modern Times

The book is based on the recent historical works and is intended primarily for Higher Secondary students of West Bengal Council of Higher Secondary Education. The book provides an outline on the most crucial period of World History since the outbreak of the American war of Independence meandering its course through the French revolution, Industrial revolution, rising tide of rationalism in Europe to the outbreak of the First World War. It also highlights the momentous developments in America, Russia, the emerging forces of Fascism and Nazism in Europe to the holocaust of the Second World War. I have narrated in brief the most crucial phase of World History in the second half of the twentieth century, like the genesis of the Cold War, its ramifications, the challenge of communism, the Middle East tangle and the emergence of the new world order just to provide the students with an essential foundation for understanding the events in modern world history. Apart from model questions at the end of each chapter, maps and chronology of important events have been given for the benifit of the students.