Wikipedia:WikiReader/A History of the 20th Century

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1 Titles
2 Contributors and Volunteers
3 To-do List
4 Contents
- 4.1 List in progress
- 4.2 Never
5 PDF Design Issues

[edit] Titles

Potential:

A History of the 20th Century
A Modern World History
A Complete History of the Modern World

[edit] Contributors and Volunteers

--Mark Lewis 20:12, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)

--Laura Scudder | Talk 19:27, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

[edit] To-do List

Check the quality of the articles and ensure that they are strictly NPOV and coherent
Extend/crop the contents to ensure a balanced, fair and manageable size. We could easily use 1000 articles, but that would be unwieldy and useless. A couple of hundred could be taken as an absolute maximum cutoff.
Link up with similar Wikiprojects/Wikibooks. Together we stand.
Recruit!
Try to avoid systemic bias since this should be a world history, and all history books that I have encountered have always had a Western bias.
- More content about africa, oceania and latin America needs to be added. Decolonization might be a good start.

[edit] Contents

Some of the contents were suggested by Laura Scudder, and are put up here.

Currently very partial. Contribute, you know you want to!

Another good domestic source includes Wikibooks.

Series to include parts or all of:

Have a look at August Ludwig von Schlözer.

Article count: 135 if I can count.

[edit] List in progress

The following is from the outline.

Overview: (2)

Events:

World War I 1914 – 1918 (6)

Russian Revolution (7)
- Events leading to the revolution
  - Russian history, 1892-1920
  - Russian Revolution of 1905
- Creation of the Soviet Union

Interwar Years (9)
- Spanish Flu
- Post-WWI recession
- Great Depression
- Statute of Westminster
- The Rise of Ideologies
  - Fascism
  - Nazism
  - The Nazi Party
- Events leading up to World War II
  - Causes of World War II
  - Nazi Germany

World War II (21)

Post WWII (12)
- India, Pakistan and Kashmir
- Israel and Palestine

Cold War / The Nuclear Period (12)
Space Race 1957-75 (5)
The Information Age (8)
- Gulf War I
- Bosnian War
  - Srebrenica Massacre
  - International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia
- Rwandan Genocide series (unfortunately many articles are in need of attention or incomplete)
  - International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda
- Afghanistan War
- Gulf War II

Recent History (5)

Trends (4)

Focus

History of the Soviet Union (5)

China (5)

Civil rights (4 + 3)
- American Civil Rights Movement (1896-1954)
- American Civil Rights Movement (1955-1968)
- Apartheid should include information from the following:
  - History of South Africa#Apartheid
  - History of South Africa#Post-apartheid
- Feminist_movement#In_the_20th_century
  - Women's Suffrage

European Union (10, not sure what to put where and what to trim)
- History of the European Union
- Council of Europe
- European Coal and Steel Community
- Schumann Declaration
- Maastricht treaty
- European Economic Community
- Euratom
- Treaty of Rome
- Single European Act
- Treaty establishing a Constitution for Europe

Sport (3)

Mass Media (5)

Organisations: (8)

[edit] Never

Manhattan Project (included in History of Nuclear Weapons)

[edit] PDF Design Issues

References/External Links - where should they go? At the end of each article or the entire book? I favour at the end of the book to make the contents more fluid Mark Lewis 20:55, 16 September 2005 (UTC)
Comments on current design, colour scheme, etc?

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