by George Ochoa and Melinda Corey

An expansive single-volume reference combining the features of a chronology, encyclopedia, and almanac. This ambitious new work covers not just trivia but essentials, not just the familiar but also the little-known, not just the local but the global. "It is not a record of any one country’s 20th century, but of every country’s, and of the great worldwide events and trends that affected them all," promises the introduction.
 

Chapter One: Chronology of the Century
A timeline from 1900 to 1999, highlighting the most important milestones in every area of human activity around the world, from culture to politics to science to sports.
 

Chapter Two: Events and Ideas of the Century
A listing of more than 300 selected events, movements, trends, and concepts that defined the century.

Chapter Three: People of the Century
Concise biographies of 900 of the most important people of their times, including artists, philosophers, generals, and presidents.

Chapter Four: Nations of the World
A brief 20th-century history of every nation on earth, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, along with a chronology of leaders and other information.

The main text is supplemented with charts, such as a list of all Nobel Prize Winners and battle and casualty tables for World Wars I and II. Cross-references also aid researchers. Two indexes complete the book: a traditional subject index and a year index.
 

Over 40 charts supplement the text including...

• 20th century amendments to the U.S. Constitution 

• Locations of Olympic Games

• Academy Awards 1927-28 to 1999, Best picture and best foreign language film

• Nobel Prize winners 1901-99 

• AFL-CIO membership, 1897-1995

• AIDS deaths in the U.S., 1981-96

• HIV / AIDS estimates worldwide by region

• World's 10 busiest airports

• Poverty status for U.S. blacks and whites, 1959-90

• U.S. households with one or more computers

• Timeline of decolonization

• Unemployment rate in the U.S. civilian  labor force, 1920-50

• Estimated number of Jews killed in the Holocaust\

• Production of world manufacturing industries, 1900-80\

• Korean War deaths

• Infant mortality worldwide

• Annual death rates in the U.S., 1900-90

• Most popular films in the U.S. by decade 

• U.S. federal programs established during the New Deal 

• Major nuclear arms control treaties 

• World population totals, 1900-96 

• Constituent republics of the Soviet Union 

• First countries to have television 

• World motor vehicle ownership 

• Top vehicle-owning countries 

• The decline of American railroads 

• Specialized agencies and other autonomous organizations within the UN 

• Secretaries-general of the United Nations 

• United Nations principal organs

• United Nations programs 

• Vietnam War deaths 

• Achievement of women's suffrage in selected countries 

• World War I major battles 

◘ 1,004 pp.
◘ 2001
◘ ISBN 0-8242-0960-5
◘ $120
◘ $140 (outside U.S. and Canada)