APWH Timeline Assignment PERIOD 6: 1900 - 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...
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. Collapse of USSR
13. Construction of Berlin Wall
14. Creation of Israel
15. Creation of PLO
16. D-Day, Allied invasion at Normandy
17. Division of Berlin and German
18. Establishment of NATO
19. Establishment of People's Republic of China
20. Establishment of United Nations
21. Establishment of Warsaw Pact
22. First meeting of the League of Nations
23. First Soviet Five-Year Plan
24. French defeat at Dien Bien Phu
25. Gallipoli campaign
26. German Auschluss with Austria
27. German invasion of USSR
28. Great leap forward in China
29. Hitler is ruler in Germany
30. Invasion of China by Japan
31. Invasion of Poland by Germany
32. Iran-Iraq war
33. Japan makes Twenty-one Demands on China
34. Japanese invasion of Manchuria
35. Korean War
36. Lenin's New Economic Policy
37. Long March by Chinese Communists
38. May Fourth Movement in China
39. Mussolini launches fascist movement in Italy
40. Paris Peace Conference
41. Partition of India
42. Persian Gulf War
43. Reunification of Germany
44. Revolution in Iran
45. Sandino is murdered in Nicaragua
46. Soviet victory at Stalingrad
47. Soviet withdrawl from Afghanistan
48. Stalin's "Great Purge" in USSR
49. Suez crisis
50. Transfer of British Hong Kong to China
51. Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
52. Uprising in Hungary
53. US stock market crash
54. US troops in Vietnam
55. 9/11 Attacks on US