History of the Modern World, 10th Edition (Palmer)

Chapter 27: The Changing Modern World

Primary Sources, Maps and Images

CXXIX. Western Europe after the Cold War: Economic and Political Uncertainties

• [Image Protest against unemployment, Germany, 1991]
• [Image Terrorist Weapon Cache, Mosul, Iraq]
• [Image Global Culture: Monk and McDonald’s in Myanmar]

1. Western Europe: Political Crises and Discontents
• [Image Italian Popular party]

2. Europe's Immigrants and Refugees
• [Image Right-wing arson attack in Germany, 1993]
• [Image Neo-Nazis in Germany]
• [Image Jean-Marie Le Pen]
• [Image National Front]

CXXX. Nation-States and Economies in the Age of Globalization

1. Economic Recovery and Boom: A "Third Way" in Politics
• [Image President Clinton]
• [Image Tony Blair]
• [Primary Source New Labour manifesto, 1997]
• [Image New parliament in Scotland in 1999]
• [Image Last Day of historic House of Lords]
• [Image Gerhard Schroder]
• [Image Daniel Jospin]
• [Primary Source Independent International Commission on Decommissioning Report, 2005]
• [Image Angela Merkel] ]

2. Japan in the 1990s

3. The European Union: Widening and Deepening
• [Image Treaty of Maastricht, 1991]
• [Map 25 member EU, 2004]
• [Image The "euro"]
• [Image French voters reject European constitution]

4. The "New Economy": The 1990s and Beyond
• [Image Bill Gates]
• [Image World Wide Web invented, 1989]
• [Image Anti-WTO protest, Seattle 2000]

CXXXI. Intellectual and Social Currents

1. The Advance of Science and Technology
• [Image Motion picture]
• [Image Early Television]
• [Image German washing machine, 1950s]
• [Image B-29]
• [Image The Electronic Era for Business]
• [Image COBE, launched 1989]
• [Image ENIAC computer, 1946]
• [Image Aids in Africa]
• [Image Aids patient]

2. Nuclear Physics
• [Image Max Planck]
• [Primary Source Einstein explains e=mc2]
• [Image Otto Hahn]
• [Image Lise Meitner]
• [Image Nils Bohr]
• [Image Enrico Fermi]
• [Image Testing the A-bomb]
• [Image Little Man and Fat Boy]
• [Image Soviet hydrogen bomb test, 1955]
• [Image Browns Ferry nuclear power plant]
• [Image cyclotron]

3. Social Implications of Science and Technology
• [Image Cloning sheep: Dolly and her mother]

4. Space Exploration
• [Image Sputnik, 1958]
• [Image Apollo 11: man on the Moon, 1969]
• [Image Neil Armstrong]
• [Image Voyager 2]
• [Image Hubble space telescope]
• [Image Mir space station]

5. Philosophy: Existentialism in the Postwar Years
• [Image Soren Kierkegaard]
• [Image Jean-Paul Sartre]
• [Image Albert Camus]

6. Philosophy: Logic and Language; Literary Criticism; History
• [Image Bertrand Russell]
• [Image Alfred North Whitehead]
• [Image Ludwig Wittgenstein]
• [Image Jacques Derrida]

7. The Creative Arts
• [Image James Joyce]
• [Image Postmodern architecture: Frank Gehry, Weisman Art Museum, University of Minnesota, 1995]
• [Image Robert Venturi]
• [Image Andy Warhol, Self Portrait]
• [Image Harold Pinter]
• [Image Samuel Beckett]
• [Image Waiting for Godott]
• [Image Eugene Ionesco]

8. Religion in the Modern World
• [Primary Source Paul Tillich, The Courage to Be, 1952]
• [Image Billy Graham preaching in London, 1954]
• [Image Pius XII]
• [Image John XXIII]
• [Primary Source Pacem in Terris]
• [Primary Source Documents of the Second Vatican Council]
• [Primary Source Pope Paul VI, Humanae Vitae (On The Regulation of Birth), 1968]
• [Primary Source Evangelicals & Catholics Together, 1994]
• [Image Benedict XVI]
• [Primary Source The Sacred Cluster: Core Values of Conservative Judaism]
• [Image 1992 Hindu extremists in India destroy Muslim mosque]

9. Activism: The Youth Rebellion of the 1960s
• [Image Students for a Democratic Society demonstration poster, 1968
• [Image Frantz Fanon]
• [Primary Source Port Huron Statement]
• [Image Students for a Democratic Society demonstration, 1965]

10. The Women's Liberation Movement
• [Primary Source Simone de Beauvoir, The Second Sex (1949)]
• [Primary Source Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique (1963)]
• [Image Indira Gandhi]
• [Image Golda Meir]
• [Image Corazon Aquino]
• [Image Benazir Bhutto]
• [Image Margaret Thatcher]
• [Image US women undergraduates]

CXXXII. International Conflict in the Twenty-First Century

The United Nations

• [Image Taliban rulers in Afghanistan destroyed Buddhist sculptures]
• [Map UN Security Council]
• [Primary Source Universal Declaration of Human Rights (ch 25)]
• [Image UN Secretary General Kofi Annan]

NATO, Russia and the New International Cooperation

• [Image George W. Bush]
• [Primary Source Non-Proliferation Treaty, 1968]
• [Primary Source Antiballistic Missile Treaty, 1972]
• [Image/Map Expanded NATO, 2004]
• [Primary Source NATO-Russia Council]

Terrorism and War after September 11, 2001

• [Image Osama Bin Laden]
• [Image 9/11]
• [Primary Source NATO-Russia Council]
• [Primary Source War on Terrorism]
• [Image Hamid Karzai ]
• [Image Saddam Hussein]
• [Image Weapons inspections in Iraq]
• [Primary Source NATO-Russia Council]
• [Image Iraqi insurgents]
• [Primary Source NATO-Russia Council]
• [Image Ethno-religious map of Iraq]
• [Map Subway bombing, London]

CXXXIII. Social Challenges in the Twenty-First Century

1. The Population Explosion

2. The Environment
• [Image Desertification in Niger]
• [Image "Earth Summit" meeting in Rio de Janeiro, 1992]
• [Image Campaign poster, West German Green party, 1983]