Name: ________________________________________________ Period: ________

Date:___________

Unit XV: The Great War -&- Unit XVI: The Rise of the Dictators
Timeline

Directions: Fill in the blanks using information from the timelines in “ Chapter 23:
War and Revolution, AD 1914-1919” and “Chapter 24: The West Between the
Wars” on pages 714-715, 717, 721, 732, 739, 748-749, 751, 758, and 766.

1882 AD – ______________________________ forms

1889 AD – _______________ is born
1907 AD – ______________________________ forms
1914 AD – Assassination of ______________________________ sparks
______________________________
1915 AD – ______________________________ sinks the _______________
1916 AD – Battle of _______________
1916 AD – _______________ assassinated
1917 AD – ______________________________ begins
1917 AD – ______________________________ steps down
1917 AD – ______________________________ enters the war
1918 AD – _______________ signs
________________________________________________________
1918 AD – _______________ agrees to _______________
1919 AD –_____________________________________________ signed at the
_____________________________________________
1919 AD – _______________ creates the _____________________________________________
1921 AD – _______________ control _______________
1921 AD – ______________________________ determined
1921 AD – _______________ takes control of the
_____________________________________________
______________________________
1922 AD – _______________ create the
____________________________________________________
1924 AD – ______________________________ restructured
1924 AD – _______________ writes first volume of ______________________________
1924 AD – _______________ dies
1925 AD – Treaty of _______________
1926 AD – _______________ creates a _______________ dictatorship in _______________
1928 AD – _______________ launches his
___________________________________________________
1929 AD – _______________ recognizes independence of
______________________________
1929 AD – _______________ establishes dictatorship in ______________________________
1929 AD – ______________________________ crashes; the
______________________________ begins
1932 AD – _____________________________________________ is elected President of the
______________________________
1933 AD – _______________ passes ______________________________; _______________
becomes
_______________ of _______________
1935 AD – _______________ enact _______________ laws
1935 AD – _______________ is established
1936 AD – _____________________________________________’ General Theory of
Employment, Interest, and
Money is published
1936 AD – ______________________________ is formed in _______________
1936 AD – _____________________________________________ begins
1938 AD – The _______________ occurs
1939 AD – The _____________________________________________ ends

Part II
Directions: Using your completed timeline above, answer the following questions
in complete sentences.

1. How old was Adolf Hitler when World War I broke out?

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2. How long had Russia been fighting in World War I before the Russian Revolution
began?
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_

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3. How many years had World War I been fought before the United States entered
the war?

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_

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4. How long had the USSR been established before Stalin became its dictator?

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_

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5. How long had Hitler been chancellor of Germany before the Kristallnacht
occurred?

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_

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Name: ________________________________________________ Period: ________
Date:___________

Unit XV: The Great War -&- Unit XVI: The Rise of the Dictators
Timeline

Directions: Fill in the blanks using information from the timelines in “ Chapter 23:
War and Revolution, AD 1914-1919” and “Chapter 24: The West Between the
Wars” on pages 714-715, 717, 721, 732, 739, 748-749, 751, 758, and 766.

1882 AD – Triple Alliance forms

1889 AD – Hitler is born
1907 AD – Triple Entente forms
1914 AD – Assassination of Archduke Ferdinand sparks World War I
1915 AD – German submarine sinks the Lusitania
1916 AD – Battle of Verdun
1916 AD – Rasputin assassinated
1917 AD – Russian Revolution begins
1917 AD – Czar Nicholas II steps down
1917 AD – United States enters the war
1918 AD – Lenin signs Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
1918 AD – Germany agrees to truce
1919 AD –Treaty of Versailles signed at the Paris Peace Conference
1919 AD – Mussolini creates the Fascio di Combattimento
1921 AD – Communists control Russia
1921 AD – German debt determined
1921 AD – Hitler takes control of the National Socialist German Workers’ Party
1922 AD – Communists create the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
1924 AD – German debt restructured
1924 AD – Hitler writes first volume of Mein Kampf
1924 AD – Lenin dies
1925 AD – Treaty of Locarno
1926 AD – Mussolini creates a Fascist dictatorship in Italy
1928 AD – Stalin launches his First Five-Year Plan
1929 AD – Mussolini recognizes independence of Vatican City
1929 AD – Stalin establishes dictatorship in Soviet Union
1929 AD – US stock market crashes; the Great Depression begins
1932 AD – Franklin Delano Roosevelt is elected President of the United States
1933 AD – Reichstag passes Enabling Act; Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany
1935 AD – Nazis enact Nuremberg laws
1935 AD – WPA is established
1936 AD – John Maynard Keynes’ General Theory of Employment, Interest, and
Money is published
1936 AD – Popular Front is formed in France
1936 AD – Spanish Civil War begins
1938 AD – The Kristallnacht occurs
1939 AD – The Spanish Civil War ends

How old was Adolf Hitler when World War I broke out?
How long had Russia been fighting in World War I before the Russian Revolution
began?
How many years had World War I been fought before the United States entered the
war?
How long had the USSR been established before Stalin became its dictator?
How long had Hitler been chancellor of Germany before the Kristallnacht occurred?