World at War Project: Timeline

Step 0: Team leaders

  • 1st hour: Khyla, Mary, Olyvia S., Maria, Tessa, Keny, Ben, Adam, Caelin
  • 2nd hour: Alex, Nick, Bella, Keri, Jazz, Clare, Katie, Victoria, Mark, Jacob, Daniel
  • 3rd hour: Stephanie S., Jill, Eboni, Anne, Sydney, Caroline, Emily, Mary, Sam, Vincent

Step 1: Team setup

Team Leader
  • Create a team of 2-3 students (no, not four).
  • Decide how to divide up the events and start research.
  • Create an account on dipity.
  • Create a timeline titled "World at War."
  • Change the settings so anyone can edit it. Tell or email the URL to your partners.

Step 2: Research Events

Use Wikipedia (you know you want to). It's great for this sort of simple, factual information. For a longer research project, you would need more sources.
  • What: You need a complete sentence description of at least 10 words. Write one; don't copy and paste.
  • When: Try to find a specific day and month. Sometimes you won't find a day, but you should find a month or season for most.
  • Where: At least have a country location for each event, but try for a city as well.
Add an Event on your timeline with your research x50.

Step 3: Add Images

After you've completed Step 2, go back to your 20+ most important items and add relevant images. You will need to judge whether the image you find is precise to the event on your timeline.

Step 4: Written Responses

To receive credit, each teammate needs to create a file in Google Drive with grammatically-correct paragraphs for these prompts.
  1. Describes specifically what you did on the project and include the URL. (25-50 words)
  2. Thoughts of World Wars for Americans tend conjure up images of Pearl Harbor or D-Day. Write a paragraph where you describe three of the most significant events on your timeline that did not directly involve Americans (50-100 words).
  3. Using the map view on your timeline, write a paragraph describing the events in Russia or China between 1908-1946 (50-100 words). 
  4. Describe three events that you had not heard of (or knew little about) before taking World History this year (50 words).
  5. If you were going to watch a documentary movie focused in detail on 1-2 of these events, explain which topic(s) you would want to know more about (50 words).

DUE: Wednesday, May 8

Events

These events are not in precise order. You will need to find precise dates and locations, when possible.
  1. 1908 Austria annexes Bosnia and Herzegovina
  2. 1914 Archduke Franz Ferdinand assassinated
  3. 1914 World War I begins as Austria declares war on Serbia
  4. 1915 Opposing armies on the Western Front settle into trench warfare
  5. 1916 Russia’s war effort near collapse
  6. 1915 German navy sinks British ship Lusitania
  7. 1917 Germany announces unrestricted submarine warfare
  8. 1917 Zimmerman note intercepted
  9. 1917 United States declares war on Germany
  10. 1917 Communists seize power in Russian Revolution
  11. 1918 President Wilson announces Fourteen Points
  12. 1918 Germany and Russian sign peace treaty
  13. 1918 Allies defeat Central Powers in World War I
  14. 1918 Spanish Flu
  15. 1919 Versailles Treaty signed
  16. 1919 Amritsar Massacre in India
  17. 1919 Mussolini founds Italian Fascist party
  18. 1919 May Fourth movement begins in China
  19. 1921 Chinese Communist Party founded
  20. 1922 Russia renamed Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
  21. 1928 Stalin in total control of the Soviet Communist Party
  22. 1928 Stalin launches first Five-Year Plan
  23. 1929 American stock market crashes
  24. 1930 Salt March in India
  25. 1931 Japan seizes Manchuria, China
  26. 1932 Americans elect Franklin Roosevelt
  27. 1933 Long March, China
  28. 1933 Hitler becomes German chancellor
  29. 1935 Italy attacks Ethiopia
  30. 1935 Nuremberg Laws passed in Germany
  31. 1935 Hitler begins defiance of Versailles treaty
  32. 1937 Stalin launches Great Purge
  33. 1937 Japan invades China
  34. 1938 Kristallnacht in Germany
  35. 1938 Germany annexes Austria, Czechoslovakia
  36. 1938 Munich Conference
  37. 1939 Germany invades Poland
  38. 1940 France surrenders to Germany
  39. 1940 Battle of Britain begins
  40. 1941 Germany invades Soviet Union
  41. 1941 Japanese attacks American fleet at Pearl Harbor
  42. 1942 Nazis implement “Final Solution”
  43. 1942 Allies invade North Africa
  44. 1943 Germans retreat from Stalingrad
  45. 1944 D-Day invasion of France by Allies
  46. 1945 Germany surrenders
  47. 1945 Atomic bomb dropped on Japan
  48. 1945 Atomic bomb dropped on Japan
  49. 1945 Japan surrenders
  50. 1946 Nuremberg Trials held
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