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Defining Documents in World History: The 20th Century (1900-1950)

Table of Contents

Publisher’s Note




Editor’s Introduction




Contributors




Volume 1



Africa and the African Diaspora


Peace of Vereeniging


Marcus Garvey on “Back to Africa”


W. E. B. Du Bois: An Open Letter to Warren G. Harding


Aimé Césaire—from “Notebook of a Return to the Native Land”


Notices from the Fifth Pan-African Congress


Asian Affairs


Henry Cabot Lodge: Speech on the Retention of the Philippine Islands


“Subjugation of the Philippines Iniquitous”


Boxer Protocol


Sun Yat-sen: “The Three Stages of Revolution”


The Treaty of Portsmouth


Japan’s 21 Demands and China’s Reply


The Problem of Japan—A Japanese View


Henry Stimson to Senator Borah Regarding the Nine-Power Treaty


Korean Declaration of Independence


Mohandas Gandhi: Statement at Trial


Jawaharlal Nehru’s Speech on the Occasion of Indian Independence


Euroamerican and World Affairs


Entente Cordiale


Anglo-Russian Entente


Proclamation of the Provisional Government of the Irish Republic


Report on Armenian Genocide


Vladimir Lenin—On the Tasks of the Soviet Government


U.S. Participation in the Archangel Expedition in Russia


Fourteen Points


Treaty of Brest-Litovsk


Treaty of Versailles


Covenant of the League of Nations


Locarno Pact


The Kellogg-Briand Pact


On the Multilateral (Kellogg-Briand) Pact


John Maynard Keynes: An Open Letter to President Roosevelt


Anti-Comintern Pact


Munich Agreement


Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact


Tripartite Pact


Bretton Woods Agreements


The Universal Declaration of Human Rights


¡No Pasarán! (“They Shall Not Pass!”)


Volume 2



Latin American Affairs


Platt Amendment


Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty


Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine


Act of Chapultepec


Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance


Pact of Bogota


The “Díaz System” in Mexico


Plan de San Luis de Potosi


Plan of Ayala


Henry Cabot Lodge: Speech on Mexico


U.S.–Mexico Tensions


The Zimmerman Telegram


On Intervention in Nicaragua


The Middle East


Proclamation of the Young Turks


Hussein-McMahon Correspondence


Sykes-Picot Agreement


Charter of the Arab League


Balfour Declaration


Palestine Mandate


White Paper of 1939


Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel


Women in the World


Emma Goldman: “Marriage and Love”


Emmeline Pankhurst: “Freedom or Death”


“Women’s Suffrage in a Democratic Republic”


Margaret Sanger: “The Prevention of Conception”


Simone de Beauvoir: Introduction to The Second Sex


Technology, Medicine, and the Environment


The Wright Brothers’ First Powered Flight


“Lindbergh’s Paris Trip Makes Him World Hero”


The First Gas Attack


The Effects of Shell Shock


An Army Physician on the 1918 Flu Pandemic


Stuart Chase: Waste in the Machine Age


Aldo Leopold: “Death of a Species”


Atomic Explosion in the USSR


International Control of Atomic Energy


Appendixes


Chronological List


Web Resources


Bibliography