An edition of A day that shook the world
(2005)
A day that shook the world
by Gordon Carr
- 0 Ratings
- 1 Want to read
- 0 Currently reading
- 0 Have read
Share
×Close
Features key historic events, through the use of archival footage, pivotal days in the history of the 20th century.
Check nearby libraries
Buy this book
Subjects
Modern HistoryTimes
20th centuryShowing 1 featured edition. View all 1 editions?
| Edition | Availability |
|---|---|
1
|
aaaa
Libraries near you:
WorldCat
|
Book Details
Table of Contents
pt. 1. 1900-1960s: Queen Victoria's funeral (1901) ; Wright brothers (1903) ; Battle of the Somme (1916) ; Abdication of Czar Nicholas (1917) ; Irish free state (1921) ; Britain's first general strike (1926) ; Lindbergh's trans-Atlantic flight (1927) ; Hitler's appointment as chancellor (1933) ; King Edward the 8th, the first King to abdicate the crown (1936) ; Crash of the airship Hindenburg (1937) ; Rise of Hitler (1938) ; German invasion of Poland (1939) ; Blitz on London (1940) ; Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor (1941) ; Turning points of World War II (1942) ; Siege of Stalingrad (1943) ; D-Day (1944) ; Nuclear weapons testing (1945) ; Destruction of Hiroshima (1945) ; British rule on the Indian sub-continent came to an end (1947) ; Berlin airlift (1948) ; Korean War (1950) ; Fall of Dien Bien Phu (1954) ; Death of Stalin (1956) ; Suez crisis (1956) ; Suppression of the Hungarian revolution (1956) ; Inauguration of John F. Kennedy (1961) ; Yuri Gagarin's orbit of the Earth (1961)(85 min.)
pt. 2. 1960s-1980s: Raising of the Berlin Wall (1961) ; Cuban missile crisis (1962) ; JFK's assassination and Lee Harvey Oswald's murder (1963) ; Six-Day War (1967) ; Student/worker riots in France (1968) ; Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia (1968) ; Lunar landing of Apollo 11 (1969) ; Bloody Sunday in Ireland (1972) ; Ayatollah Khomeini's return to Iran (1979) ; Hostage rescue at the Iranian embassy in London (1980) ; Falkland Islands War (1982) ; Sinking of HMS Sheffield (1982) ; Famine in Ethiopia (1984) ; British soccer riots at the European Cup finals in Brussels (1985) (44 min.)
pt. 3. 1980s-1990s: American bombing of Libya (1986) ; Explosion of the space shuttle Challenger (1986) ; Sinking of the car ferry Townsend Thoresen (1987) ; Bombing of Pan Am flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland (1988) ; Tiananmen Square massacre (1989) ; Tearing down of the Berlin Wall (1989) ; Overthrow of Nicolae Ceausescu (1989) ; Nelson Mandela's release from prison (1990) ; Iraqi invasion of Kuwait (1990) ; Margaret Thatcher's political upset (1990) ; Operation Desert Storm (1991) ; Attempted coup by Soviet military leaders (1991) ; Treaty that set the groundwork for the euro (1991) ; Los Angeles riots over the Rodney King incident (1992) ; Marital unhappiness of Princess Diana (47 min.).
Edition Notes
DVD release of the original 1992 production.
"DVD Video"--Container.
"BBC Worldwide"--Container.
Written by Gordon Carr.
Narrator: John Humphrys.
DVD.
The Physical Object
ID Numbers
Source records
Community Reviews (0)
Feedback?
History
- Created March 8, 2023
- 1 revision
Wikipedia citation
×CloseCopy and paste this code into your Wikipedia page. Need help?
| March 8, 2023 | Created by MARC Bot | Imported from marc_nuls MARC record |