Discover the wave of invention and the destruction from recent wars that shaped the world of today. Engaging illustrations, maps, and a continuous timeline detail important events and inventions and the changes they created from 1900 to the millennium.

Includes index.

The last hundred years -- New century -- The Great War -- The Roaring Twenties -- Depression years -- World War 2 -- Cold War -- Space age -- Changing world -- The end of the Iron Curtain -- Millenium's end -- Who's who -- Well I never.