The document History of the world from the 20th to the 21st century present the content: social change and national rivalry in Europe, beyond Europe the shifting balance of global power, the great war, revolution and the search for stability, post-war Europe, the united states and the beginning of the cold war, the transformation of Asia, the ending of European dominance in the Middle east, the cold war superpower confrontation, Latin America after 1945 problems unresolved, Africa after 1945 conflict and the threat of famine, the united states and the Soviet bloc after 1963 the great transformation, the continuing world crisis, the second world war, the recovery of western Europe, who will liberate the third world, two faces of Asia, global change from the 20th to 21st century.