Contents
FOREWORD | PAGE 5
POSTSCRIPT | PAGE 6
13,000 BC – 1937 | THE ORIGINS OF OUR TIME Pre-History and the Ancient World • PAGE 7 European Middle Ages, Renaissance, and Overseas Expansion • PAGE 10 The Early Modern Period • PAGE 13
Revolutions and Nation-Building • PAGE 16 American Civil War, Industrialization • PAGE 19 International Tension, Quickening Change • PAGE 22 From World War to World War • PAGE 25
1939 – 1949 | AN AGE OF GLOBAL WAR World War II • PAGE 28
California Transformed • PAGE 31 The Onset of Cold War • PAGE 33
1950 – 1990 | THE COLD WAR The Cold War at its Most Intense • PAGE 36 Efforts at Reform: New Frontier, Great Society • PAGE 39 The Vietnam War Years • PAGE 41 The Détente Years • PAGE 44 Renewed International Tension • PAGE 47 Astonishing Eighties • PAGE 50 1991 – 2019 | THE POST-COLD WAR ERA The Internet Age • PAGE 54 The New Millennium • PAGE 57 The Great Park Expands • PAGE 60
ABOUT THE AUTHORS | PAGE 63
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | PAGE 64
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