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STUDENT: ________________________________________________________________ DATE: ____________________________

TIMELINE: Origins of World War II

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|1930 |1931 |1932 |1933 |1934 |1935 |1936 |1937 |1938 |1939 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |

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INSTRUCTIONS

1. Locate each of the following events on the timeline to indicate when they occurred. However, you must also decide whether each event was moving the world in the direction of peace or war.

2. For each event, provide a 1-2 sentence justification to explain why you placed it in a certain location on the peace-war axis. Your justification should indicate an understanding of how this event played a role in interwar period diplomacy and international relations.

a) Five Year Plans begin in USSR

b) Hössbach Memorandum

c) construction of the Maginot Line begins

d) Kellogg-Briand Pact

e) Hitler appointed Chancellor of Weimar Republic

f) World Disarmament Conference

g) US passes the first Neutrality Act

h) Manchurian Crisis (Mukden Incident)

i) Great Depression begins

j) Stressa Front

k) Re-occupation of the Rhineland

l) Anglo-German Naval Agreement

m) Mussolini invades Abyssinia

n) Spanish Civil War

o) Anschluss

p) Anti-Comintern Pact

q) Munich Crisis

r) Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact (Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact)

s) Manchurian Crisis (Mukden Incident)

t) “rape” of Nanking

u) Stalin purges his officer corps

v) Marco Polo Bridge Incident, Japanese invasion of China

w) Invasion of Poland

3. Consider, to what extent was the world already at war in 1939?

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PEACE

WAR

“For obvious reasons we tend to think of the years from 1933 to 1939 in terms of the origins of the Second World War. The question we customarily ask is whether or not the Western Powers could have done more to avert the war – whether or not the policy of appeasement towards Germany and Japan was a disastrous blunder. Yet this may be to reverse the order of events. Appeasement did not lead to war. It was war that led to appeasement. For the war did not begin, as we tend to think, in Poland in 1939. It began in Asia in 1937, if not in 1931, when Japan invaded Manchuria. It began in Africa in 1935, when Mussolini invaded Abyssinia. It began in Western Europe in 1936, when Germany and Italy began helping Franco win the Spanish Civil War. In began in Eastern Europe in April 1939, with the Italian invasion of Albania. Contrary to the myth propagated at the International Military Tribunal at Nuremburg that he and his confederates were its only begetter, Hitler was a latecomer to the war. He achieved his foreign policy objectives prior to September 1939 without firing a shot. Nor was his intention to start a world war at that date. The war that broke out then between Germany, France and Britain, was nearly as much the fault of the Western Powers, and indeed of Poland, as of Hitler…

- Historian, Niall Ferguson

MARKING CRITERIA [ ___/30 marks]

Outstanding/Exemplary (9-10) ( Criteria achieved (7-8)

Minimally achieved (5-6) ( Poor/Incomplete/Does not meet criteria (0-4)

❑ [ ___/10] Chronology of events is accurate.

❑ [ ___/10] Justification or explanation of each event indicates historical understanding of cause and effect, change and continuity.

❑ [ ___/10] Details and information demonstrates accurate knowledge of the events under examination.

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