How Do You Make A Timeline Of The 20Th Century?
For students studying 20th century history, creating a timeline is an effective method for learning about major events and understanding the proportional amounts of time between those events. Viewing, for example, the relatively short number of years between the end of World War I and the beginning of America’s involvement in World War II is an eye-opener; a young man could have been born on the last day of the first and graduated college on the first day of the latter. These kinds of observations can add greatly to a student’s knowledge of history. Tape together ten sheets of copy paper on the 8 ½” sides. Using a yardstick, draw a line with a black marker two inches down from the top of the paper and extending across all ten sheets. Write “1900” on the top at the beginning of the line and “1999” at the end of the line. Write “1910” at the end of first sheet of paper and continue marking the decades accordingly, so that each sheet of paper represents one decade. Decide what elements yo
