A History of the World in the 20th Century is a history textbook by J. A. S. Grenville, first published in 1994. It is followed by A History of the World from the 20th to the 21st Century, which has reached its 5th edition,^[1] and is commonly used in International Baccalaureate 20th Century World History classes.

Table of contents

• Social change and national rivalry in the West, 1900–1914
• The response of China and Japan to western dominance
• The Great War, revolution and the search for stability
• The continuing world crisis, 1929–1939
• The Second World War
• Post-war Europe, 1945–1947
• The United States and the beginning of the Cold War, 1945–1948
• The transformation of Asia, 1945–1955
• The ending of European dominance in the Middle East, 1919–1980
• The Cold War : superpower confrontation, 1948–1964
• The recovery of Western Europe in the 1950s and 1960s
• Who will liberate the Third World? : 1954-1968
• Two faces of Asia : after 1949
• Latin America after 1945 : problems unresolved
• Africa after 1945 : conflict and the threat of famine
• The United States and the Soviet bloc after 1963 : the great transformation
• Western Europe gathers strength : after 1968
• The Cold War and after