NAME___________________________________ PER.___ DATE ___________________________________
A TIMELINE OF EVENTS BETWEEN THE TWO WORLD WARS
FILL IN THE BLANKS ACCORDING TO THE YEAR IN WHICH THE EVENT OCCURRED:
1918........ As the Great War comes to an end, a pandemic, called _________________, claims the lives of
more than
______ million people worldwide along with an additional ______ million war-dead (pg 694)
1919........ In January, the victorious WWI Allied Powers meet in the capital city of ____________,
______________
to decide the fate of the defeated Central Powers. The defeated newly formed German
government,
called the ______________ Republic, is forced to accept and sign the vengeful, humiliating Treaty
of
___________________ (Chapter 27 Lesson 3 notes); the victorious powers give Japan control
over former
German possessions in _____________, angering nationalists there who seek to carry out the
revolutionary communist ideas of Karl ____________ and ___________ (pg. 735); the Italian
nationalist,
Benito ___________________, organizes the ______________ Party, pledging to turn the
_______________________ into a “Roman Lake” (pg. 757)
1920…… Austrian-born Adolf _______________, a WWI German veteran and Fascist practitioner, leads the
National
Socialist Workers’ Party or ____________ Party in Germany (pg. 762)
1923…… Adolf ______________ fails to seize power in the German city of ____________, is arrested, tried,
found
guilty of _____________ and sent to prison where he writes _____________ ____________ (My
Struggle), reflecting his obsessions of extreme __________________, ____________, and anti_______________ (pg. 762)
1924....... _____________, the first communist leader of Russia, dies (pg. 708)
1925…… A series of agreements known as the _________________ treaties (signed in the country of
____________________) becomes a symbol of a new era of peace (pg. 747); Italy’s Mussolini
takes the
title “_____ __________,” meaning “the leader” and establishes a _________________ state or
command
economy (pg. 758)
1928...... The spirit of the Locarno treaties is echoed in the _________________-_____________ Pact that
outlawed
____________ and agreed upon by the great powers who pursue ________________________,
the
reduction of armed forces and weapons (pg. 747); (Joseph) ____________, born Joseph
Djugashvili,
whose self-proclaimed name means “man of ____________,” takes sole power as the second
communist
leader of Russia and begins his ______-Year Plans to build Russia into an
_____________________
giant by developing Russia [by now known as the ____________ ____________ or Union of
Soviet
Socialist Republics] under a _______________ economy whereby government officials make all
economic
decisions (pg. 708); he forces ________________ (including the wealthy ones called
________________)
onto state-owned farms called _________________ that were so Stalin-controlled that another
______ to
_____ million Ukrainians alone died as a result of this ruthless policy, starvation, and famine (pgs. 709-710)
1929….. Prices on the New York __________ _____________ soar, causing __________ buying which
results with
investors, unable to repay their loans, being forced to sell their stocks which causes financial panic,
resulting with a stock market __________ (pg. 748)
1930…... The painful time of global economic collapse becomes known as the __________
___________________,
spreading misery from the ___________________ world to the suppliers of ____________________
goods
and raw _____________ (pg. 748); Indian leader, Mohandas K. _________________, begins his
_______mile __________ ____________ to the sea to inspire Indian nationalism against _____________
imperialism using nonviolent or ________________ resistance, believing in ____________
________________
as first suggested by Henry David ________________, an American philosopher of the ____th century
(pg. 732)
1931…… Japan invades _____________________ in northeastern China (pg. 737) and sets up a puppet state
there,
calling it __________________________; when the __________________ of ______________
condemned
Japan for its aggression against China, ________________ simply withdraws its membership from this
international organization (pgs. 739 & 741)
1932…… Following the presidential term of Herbert ________________, Americans elect Franklin D.
_____________
as their new president and he introduces the ___________ ______________, a massive package of
__________________ and ___________ reform programs that fails to end the Great Depression but
eases the
suffering for many (pg. 751)
1934....... Stalin launches the _________ __________ that claims at least another ______ million political,
economic,
and military enemies as unwilling victims of his reign of terror to secure his _____________ power (pg.
710);
as the Communist International, also known as the ___________________, is by now strongly
developed,
its ______________________ (one-sided view to promote a certain cause) against capitalism makes
_________________ powers suspicious of the Soviets’ motives, the Soviet Union joins the international
organization known as the ____________ of ______________ to ease tensions (pg. 712); under Stalin’s
one-party ____________________ as a ________________________ state, he bombarded the public
with the evils of western ___________________ and revived extreme nationalism through the state-run
newspaper called _____________ [Truth] (pg. 713); in China, an epic retreat, known as the
____________
_____________, begins a 6,000-mile journey by Communist practitioner, __________ ___________ and
his
100,000 followers to flee from the Chinese Nationalist party, Guomindang, ending the trek in a remote
region
in northern China called ________________ (see map on pg. 736) becoming a Communist stronghold
1935…… German anti-Semitic leader, Adolf Hitler, sets out to drive the _________ from Germany by passing the
___________________ Laws (pg. 765)
1937…… ______________ bombs Chinese cities, overrunning eastern China, including Beijing and the major
Chinese
cultural center called ______________; the Guomindang, the _________________, and the
________________
are locked in a three-sided struggle for control of China (pg. 737)
1938…… __________________________ or the “Night of Broken Glass” is ordered by Hitler whereby
__________led mobs attack ______________ communities all over Germany, smashing windows, looting shops, and
burning ______________, dragging Jews from their homes and beating them in the streets (pg. 765)
1939…… Japan joins with Germany and Italy in an alliance known as the ____________ Powers (pg. 741)
In the years between 1918 and 1939, what evidence was there of peace attempts to prevent a 2nd world war? Was there
evidence of the same M-A-I-N causes for the 1st World War working to counter these peace attempts? In the space
below, find examples of peace attempts and any M-A-I-N causes between the two world wars:
WORD BANK (No numbers are in this word bank – you are on your own)
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China
collectives
command
corporate
crash
disarmament
Fascist
Hitler (2)
il Duce
industrial
influenza
Kellogg-Briand
kulaks
Lenin (2)
Locarno
margin
Marx
Mediterranean
Mein Kampf
Munich
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Mussolini
nationalism
Nazi
Paris, France
peasants
racism
Semitism
Soviet Union
Stalin
steel
Stock Exchange
Switzerland
treason
Versailles
war
Weimar
absolute
agricultural
Axis
British
capitalism
civil disobedience
Comintern
Communists
dictatorship
economic
Gandhi
Great Depression
Hoover
industrial
Japan (2)
Japanese
Jewish
Jews
Kristallnacht
League / Nations (2)
Long March
Manchuria
Manzhouguo
Mao Zedong
materials
Nanjing
Nazi
New Deal
Nuremberg
passive
Pravda
propaganda
Great Purge
Roosevelt
Salt March
social
synagogues
Thoreau
totalitarian
Western
Yenan