Social Studies-2nd Quarter Timeline Project



Social Studies-2nd Quarter Timeline Project

Your assignment is to do the following:

1. Look up each event below on the computer and do the following:

a. Record the date (specific date in time or a span of time) that each event occurred

b. Write down a brief summary of this event (What occurred? Why was it significant?)

2. Using the date/dates you generated above, plot all 27 events on a timeline as they happened in history (example of timeline is shown below)

3. Project is due: Friday, January 14th

4. Your project should be well-organized and presented in a 3-pin folder

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3500BC 0 2010

BC/AD

1. Middle Ages

2. Renaissance

3. WWI

4. WWII

5. Cold War

6. Russian Revolution

7. Cuban Missile Crisis

8. Stalin becomes leader of Russia

9. Roman Empire

10. Greek Empire

11. Egyptian Empire

12. Berlin Wall/Iron Curtain goes up

13. Berlin Wall/Iron Curtain comes down

14. Romanov dynasty rules Russia

15. Ukrainian Genocide

16. Holocaust

17. USSR (from when to when)

18. Cleopatra becomes Queen of Egypt

19. Julius Cesar becomes ruler of all of Rome

20. Gutenberg Bible published

21. Black Death ravages Europe

22. Leonardo da Vinci paints Mona Lisa

23. Shakespeare writes Hamlet

24. Korean War

25. Vietnam War

26. Protestant Reformation

27. Industrial Revolution (dates from/to) and the specific dates for each event listed below:

a. Steam Engine

b. Gasoline

c. Telephone

d. Photograph

e. Light bulb

f. Eiffel Tower

g. Aspirin

h. First flight

i. Ford Model T

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