WAR OF THE WORLD

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Channel 4's War of the World website

www.channel4.com/history/microsites/H/
history/t-z/warworld.html
Accompanying website for the series. Includes details of Niall Ferguson's book, The War of the World: History's age of hatred.

General

General history sites for secondary aged students:

http://www.schoolhistory.co.uk/

http://www.historygcse.org/

http://www.learnhistory.org.uk/

Programme-related links

• Programme 1: The Clash of the Empires (the Russian Revolution; assassination of Franz Ferdinand; racial conflict in the First World War; post-war Russia and treatment of ethnic minorities; Greeks and Armenians in the Ottoman Empire)
• Programme 2: The Plan (the Great Depression; state planning and gulag in Russia; treatment of Jews in inter-war Germany; Japanese invasion of Manchuria)
• Programme 3: Killing Space (the start of the Second World War; Rape of Nanjing; invasion of Poland; treatment of Jews; Russo-German conflict)
• Programme 4: A Tainted Victory (the last few years of the Second World War; bombing of enemy cities; Battle of Kursk; treatment of Japanese and American soldiers)
• Programme 5: The Icebox (the Cold War; Cuban Missile Crisis; Guatemala; Cambodia)
• Programme 6: The Descent of the West (the collapse of communism in Soviet Empire; events in Bosnia; Chinese economic miracle; summary of themes from series)