Taking us from women's suffrage and the Great War to the traumas of decolonization and the technological marvels of the space race, this detailed visual timeline documents the events, characters, ideologies, cultural transformations, and the dramatic politics of the 20th century. Alongside Alex Woolf, Jeremy Black examines subjects as diverse as the Russian Revolution, the Great Depression, the rise of pop culture, the Cold War, globalization, climate change, and the birth of the internet, presenting a detailed chronicle with maps, illustrations and photos on nearly every page.