WWII Timeline Assignment

In a group of no more than 2 individuals, you will be creating a timeline of major events from the
time periods of 1918-1945. You will be given a total of 26 major events (out of order) and must
create a timeline placing them within chronological order. You will then choose 10 events from
the timeline and summarize what they were and why they were important to the time period.
After you have completed the timeline you will then need to come up with a thesis statement that
will address the prompt at the bottom of this assignment.
1. Draw a timeline that spans the years 1918-1945.
2. Research the following events. Write an in depth explanation that summarizes each event
and it’s impact on sectionalism in the US.

❏ Normandy Invasion ❏ Nuclear Bomb ❏ Pearl Harbor Attack

❏ ❏
dropped on Hiroshima &
Winter War Nagasaki Japanese Surrender

❏ Rape of Nanking ❏ Hitler takes power in ❏ Munich Conference

❏ Germany
❏
❏
US Stock Market German occupation
Crash Tehran Conference of the Rhineland

❏ Yalta Conference ❏ Rome-Berlin Axis ❏ Germany surrenders

❏ Japan invades ❏ German invasion of ❏ Battle of the Bulge

❏
Manchuria Poland

❏ ❏
Invasion of Sicily

❏
Atlantic Charter Great Britain and

❏ France declare war League of Nations

❏
Nazi-Soviet Pact founded

❏ WWI ends

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Treaty of Versailles

❏ Battle of the Midway

Battle of Stalingrad

3. Choose any 10 events from the time period and on the back of the timeline, you will
summarize them in a 1-2 sentence summary describing what they were and why they
were important to the time period.
4. You will have two days to work on this in class. It is due March 30th.

Write a thesis over the following prompt at the bottom of your timeline:

Using specific examples, analyze the causes and effects of World War II in the period circa
1918 to 1945.