Mrs. Ruland's Advanced Placement World History Course

WHAP Timeline Assignment 1914 - Present

Instructions: Take all of the following events, people, and places. For each, find the relevant dates and the significance. Place everything on one continuous timeline. You must figure out an appropriate scale so that everything is spaced out EVENLY. Multiple-year events need to be bracketed. Please make a color code and corresponding key for events by geographical area/political unit. WRITE THE DATE OF THE EVENT NEXT TO IT ON THE TIMELINE. supplementary chronology should include a summary (2-3 sentences) of what each event/person is and the importance. Be prepared to be quizzed on the items on the line... (evil laugh!)...

1. Algerian war of liberation
2. Apartheid in South Africa
3. Arab-Israeli War
4. Assassination of Archduke Francis Ferdinand
5. Ataturk proclaims Republic of Turkey
6. Atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagaski
7. Bolshevik Revolution
8. Capture of Berlin by Soviet forces
9. Cardenas nationalizes oil industry in Mexico
10. Castro comes to power in Cuba
11. Civil disobedience movement in India
12. Civil war in Russia
13. Collapse of USSR
14. Construction of Berlin Wall
15. Creation of Israel
16. Creation of PLO
17. D-Day, Allied invasion at Normandy
18. Division of Berlin and German
19. Establishment of NATO
20. Establishment of People's Republic of China
21. Establishment of United Nations
22. Establishment of Warsaw Pact
23. First meeting of the League of Nations
24. First Soviet Five-Year Plan
25. French defeat at Dien Bien Phu
26. Gallipoli campaign
27. German Auschluss with Austria
28. German invasion of USSR
29. German resumption of unrestricted submarine warfare
30. Great leap forward in China
31. Hitler is ruler in Germany
32. Invasion of China by Japan
33. Invasion of Poland by Germany
34. Iran-Iraq war
35. Japan makes Twenty-one Demands on China
36. Japanese invasion of Manchuria
37. Korean War
38. Lenin's New Economic Policy
39. Long March by Chinese Communists
40. May Fourth Movement in China
41. Mussolini launches fascist movement in Italy
42. Paris Peace Conference
43. Partition of India
44. Persian Gulf War
45. Reunification of Germany
46. Revolution in Iran
47. Sandino is murdered in Nicaragua
48. Sino-Soviet rift
49. Soviet victory at Stalingrad
50. Soviet withdrawl from Afghanistan
51. Stalin's "Great Purge" in USSR
52. Suez crisis
53. Transfer of British Hong Kong to China
54. Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
55. Uprising in Hungary
56. US stock market crash
57. US troops in Vietnam

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