WWII TIMELINE – THE ROAD TO WAR
Directions:
1. Using your textbook pages 386 – 393, review the following events on the “Road to World
War II.”
2. Create a timeline including dates from 1915 – 1940 > Label it “The Road to WWII”
3. Place each of the 15 events on the timeline by the year of occurrence
4. Draw or print & attach at least 8 colorful pictures/visuals
5. On the back of your timeline, define (explain what it is) and give the significance (discuss
why it is important) of each of the events
Events leading to World War II
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1936 Olympic Games
1919 Treaty of Versailles
1919 – 1933 Weimar Republic
1923 German Inflation
1922 Mussolini Becomes Italian Dictator
1923 Hitler Writes Mein Kampf
1933 Nazi Party Comes to Power in Germany
1930 Stalin Becomes Soviet Dictator
1931 Japan Invades Manchuria
1935 Mussolini Invades Ethiopia
1936 Spanish Civil War
1936 Hitler Invades the Rhineland
1938 Anschluss
1938 Hitler Invades the Sudetenland
1938 Munich Conference