The Age of Extremes: The Short Twentieth Century 1914-1991 (Hobsbawm, 1994)
1939 · Resource
Hobsbawm's grand survey of the 20th century from World War I to the fall of the Soviet Union.
On these timelines: Resources: Combined, Popular history books
Around 1939
- Indian independence and Partition (1947)
- World War II (1939)
- The Holocaust (1941)
- Founding of the State of Israel (1948)
- Cold War (1947)
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
- D-Day (Operation Overlord) (1944)
- Pop music: the 1940s (1940)
- Pop music: the 1930s (1930)
- Great Depression (1929)