Defining Events That Changed Our Lives

One event can change the world--and this intriguing, richly photographed volume looks at the most significant political, social, and technological milestones from the mid-twentieth century on. Beginning in 1950 with Korea and the advent of the Cold War, it covers everything from the Cuban Revolution, moon landing, and 1960s student protests, to the Yom Kippur War, Watergate, and Chernobyl, to 9/11, Apple's introduction of the iPhone, and the fall of Raqqa, capital of the Islamic caliphate.