American History Since 1877 - HIST 122 Resource Guide

Educated at Harrow and Sandhurst, he became (1894) an officer in the 4th hussars. On leave in 1895, he saw his first military action in Cuba as a reporter for London's Daily Graphic...

1879–1953, Soviet Communist leader and head of the USSR from the death of V. I. Lenin (1924) until his own death...

In The Army of the Future (1934, tr. 1941) he foresaw and futilely advocated for France the mechanized warfare by which Germany was to conquer France in 1940...

He grew up on a farm near Independence, Mo., worked at various jobs, and tended the family farm. He served as a captain of field artillery in France in World War I...

Through both his father, James Roosevelt, and his mother, Sara Delano Roosevelt, he came of old, wealthy families...

Officially United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, constitutional monarchy...

Officially French Republic. The largest country in western Europe, France includes the island of Corsica in the Mediterranean Sea.

Officially United States of America, republic...

Mandarin Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo [central glorious people's united country; i.e., people's republic], officially People's Republic of China, country...

(Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, USSR) Former federal republic, successor to the Russian Empire and the world's first communist state...

Lists the countries in the British Commonwealth.