THE WORLD WARS AND THE HOLOCAUST
THE ROAD TO WORLD WAR II
TIMELINE - TWO
NAME: _____________
Insert each of the following dates on your timeline and write the answer to
each question that corresponds with each date on the timeline.
1. February 10, 1936: What happens with the Gestapo? What is the
Gestapo?
2. March 7, 1938: What occurs in the Rhineland? What is the
Rhineland?
3. May 9, 1936: What does Italy do?
4. July 18, 1936: What occurs in Spain? What role does Germany play?
5. October 1, 1936: What happens to Francisco Franco? Who is Franco?
6. June 11, 1937: What does Stalin do in the Soviet Union?
7. November 5, 1937: What occurs at the Hossbach Conference?
8. March 12/13, 1938: Hitler announces the Anschluss. What is the
Anschluss?
9. August 12, 1938: What occurs in Germany?
10. September 30, 1938: What happens between Germany and Britain?
What does appeasement mean?
11. October 15, 1938: What happens in the Sudetenland? What is the
Sudetenland?
12. November 9/10, 1938: What is the Kristallnacht?
13. November 12, 1938: What do the Nazis force the Jews to do?
14. November 15, 1938: What happens to Jewish students in Germany?
15. December 14, 1938: What is Hermann Goring placed in charge of?
Who is Hermann Goring?
16. January 24, 1939: What is Reinhard Heydrich ordered to do? Who is
Reinhard Heydrich?
17. January 30, 1939: What does Hitler do at the Reichstag? Why?
18. February 21, 1939: What do the Nazis force the Jewish people of
Germany to do?
19. March 15/16, 1939: What occurs in Czechoslovakia?
20. March 12, 1939: What happens in Spain?
21. April 30, 1939: What happens to Jewish Tenants?
22. May 1939: What occurs with the ship the St. Louis?
23. May 22, 1939: What occurs between Italy and Germany?
24. July 21, 1939: What is Adolf Eichmann put in charge of? Who is
Adolf Eichmann?
25. August 23, 1939: The Nazis and the Soviets sign a pact? What was
it?
26. August 25, 1939: What do Poland and Britain agree on?
27. August 31, 1939: What starts to happen in Britain?
28. September 1, 1939: What occurs with Germany and Poland? Why is
this important? What rights are taken from German-Jews?
29. September 3, 1939: Who declares war on Germany? Why?
30. September 4, 1939: What happens to Warsaw? What is Warsaw?
31. September 5, 1939: What does the United States proclaim
concerning World War II?
32. September 10, 1939: What does Canada do? What begins? What is
the goal of the Battle of the Atlantic?
33. September 17, 1939: What does the Soviet Union do? Why?
34. September 21, 1939; What does Reinhard Heydrich proclaim
concerning the Jews of Poland? (Be Specific)
35. September 23, 1939: What are German Jews forbidden to own?
Why?
36. September 27, 1939: What occurs in Warsaw?
37. September 29, 1939: What do the Soviets and the Germans do? How
many people of the Jewish race are in each area?
38. October 1939: What do the Nazis begin on the sick and disabled?
39. October 12, 1939: What position is given to Hans Frank? What is he
now responsible for?
40. October 26, 1939: What happens to Polish-Jews ages 14-60
41. November 8, 1939: What happens to Adolf Hitler? Describe the plot
and the outcome.
42. November 23, 1939: What are Polish-Jews over the age of 10
required to wear?