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Discusses the cultures and customs of the world since 1945.

Education, poverty, and inequality, explores economic hardship in the aftermath of World War II, the challenges facing newly independent nations in terms of poverty, inequality, and development, and how the major powers in the Cold War approached social welfare policy. It also examines how the nations of the developing world have grown in strength even as they have struggled with nagging development issues. The United Nations, including its Millennium Development Goals, also takes center stage, as does the effect of globalization on people’s livelihoods and economic prospects.

An introduction the the Cold War, covering leaders, battles, the nuclear arms race, the space race, and more. Includes teacher notes.

As eleven-year-old Franny Chapman deals with drama at home and with her best friend in 1962, she tries to understand the larger problems in the world after President Kennedy announces that Russia is sending nuclear missiles to Cuba.

Presents concise information on political and international events and major statesmen since 1945.

"Discusses the experiences of people who survived the Holocaust, the trials of Nazi leaders at Nuremberg, the establishment of the state of Israel, the search for justice, and efforts of the survivors to begin new lives"--Provided by publisher.

Traces four hundred years of Jewish history from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century, and discusses the anti-semitism facing European Jews, the Jews of czarist Russia, their struggle for civil rights in the 1830s and 1840s, Jewish life in America, the effects of World War One and the Holocaust of World War Two, and much more.

Contains political cartoons describing two decades of American history.

The authors show that , if unwittingly, Americans still live their lives under the protection of collective traditions. Instead of rejecting this protection as paternalistic and outdated, they need to welcome it as the last basis of community in a period of extreme individualism.

Includes articles and selections from longer works dealing with new states in the context of world politics, grouped under the headings: The search for identity; Nations divided: the struggle for unity; Political stability: elusive goal; Economic modernization, and Postscript to colonialism.