Create a pictorial timeline presentation of the assigned section or unit that shows the major events that helped shape the era. Make sure not to forget any major events from the period.  Minor details may also need to be included to help put major facts into context and help show how one event led to another.
              
Moreover, your timeline needs to emphasize, “How did this section begin, end, and all the steps in between that led from beginning to end?”
  
Requirements:
  • title page
  • Each event must be labeled, dated, and include a picture and short sentence describing its importance
  • Color illustration (drawn or pasted) for each image clip
    • stick figures are not acceptable for drawn illistrations
  • Timeline from beginning to end of section or unit
  • works cited (bibliography) at the end (at least 2 separate sources)
  • If done digitaly (PowerPoint), multiple events must be on each slide
  • EXTRA POINTS (5-10pts) will be given to physical/tangible timelines
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Notes on the section below can be found on the Website.
Please review these sections before beginning your project.

Unit 9 - Immigration and Industrialization

Unit 13 - World War II
Section 1 – Coming to America
Section 2 – The Gilded Age and Corruption
Section 3 – Unions: Workers Unite!
Section 1 – Appeasement and the Rise of Dictators
Section 2 – The European Theatre
Section 3 – The Pacific Theatre and the Birth of the Atomic Age
Section 4 – Home Front and the Aftermath

Unit 10 - The Progressive Era

Unit 14 - Cold War Tensions
Section 1 – Roosevelt: Shaping the Modern Presidency
Section 2 – Muckraking and Disenfranchisement
Section 3 – Wilson’s America: The New Freedom
Section 1 – Birth of the Cold War
Section 2 – Living on the Edge
Section 3 – Kennedy and Cuba

Unit 11 - The American Empire

Unit 15 - Conflicts and Resolutions
Section 1 – The American Peril
Section 2 – American Imperialism
Section 3 – The Great War: World War I
Section 4 – War and Peace: The American Paradox
Section 1 – Great Society and the Civil Rights Movement
Section 2 – The Vietnam War
Section 3 – The Times They are A Changin’
Section 4 – Nixon and Watergate

Unit 12 - Prosperity and Depression

Unit 16 - Modern America
Section 1 – The Roaring Twenties
Section 2 – Boom and Bust: The Great Depression
Section 3 – Roosevelt and the New Deal
Section 1 – Energy Crisis and Problems Abroad
Section 2 – Resurgence of Conservatism
Section 3 – Economic Prosperity
Section 4 – Age of Terrorism