Chapter 1

Law of acceleration

1900: Promise of a new century

Votes for women

Revolution ravages Mexico

Chapter 2

Coming of world war I

In the trenches of world war I

Bolsheviks take power

Wilson's fourteen points

Chapter 3

Treaty of versailles

Revolution in physics

Great depression: Unemployment

Chapter 4

Mussolini defines totalitarianism

Hitler

Stalin starves ukraine

Stalin's great terror

New deal: Middle way

Chapter 5

Coming of the pacific war

Peasant revolution in China

Settling scores in a chinese village, 1945

Nonviolence on trail: Gandhi responds to world war II

Chapter 6

Battle of britain

Holocaust: Revolution

Last letter from stalingrad

Einstein alerts Roosevelt about nuclear weaponry

Truman drops the bomb

Chapter 7

Who started the cold war

1950's: Emergence of the western youth culture

President Eisenhower warns of the military industrial complex

Eyeball to eyeball: Cuban missile crisis

Man lands on the moon

Chapter 8

Martin Luther King Jr. goes to jail

"Gotta be this or that": End of colonialism

Cultural revolution convulses China

Chairman mao speaks

Tet and the Vietnam war

Crises of October 1973: Middle east conflict, oil, and watergate

Islam against the west

Chapter 9

Fall of communism

President Vaclav Havel's new year's day address, 1990

After apartheid

Technological revolution.