Historical Thinking Skills

By Alejandro Licea

  • Other events:The Holocaust Begins

    The Holocaust was genocide to those Jews and others against Germany burned in gas chambers

  • Actual Events: Hitler invades Poland

    After making a pact with Stalin, one that Hitler would not keep, Hitler made his move to invade Poland

  • Actual Events: France declares war on Germany

    World War II starts in 1940 where the Allies fought against Germany to defeat them

  • Actual Events: The US declares war with Germany

    The U.S. Declares war on Germany, as allies of Japan, after the Bombing in Pearl Harbor

  • Actual Event: The Battle of Midway becomes the turning point in war

    As Japanese forces make moves into America, The Battle of Midway was a turning point for the Americans against the Japanese. The Americans win the battle with many casualties sustained by both sides.

  • Actual Event: Mass Murder of Jews begins at Auschwitz

    After some time in the Concentration camps the mass murders of Jews begin.

  • Actual Event: The Battle of Stalingrad

  • Novel: Billy gets send to Battle of the Bulge in Germany

  • Other Event: The Battle of Normandy: Operation Overlord (D-Day)

    In an effort to take control of Northern France, the U.S storm the beach of Norway and have many casualties along the way.

  • Novel: Billy arrives in Dresden, Germany

    After having to be captured by German troops, Billy and his team are brought to Dresden
  • Actual Event: Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

    Actual Event: Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

  • Actual Events: The Bombing on Dresden

    Actual Events: The Bombing on Dresden

  • Actual Event: World War 2 comes to an end

    After much going through and the Bombing of Dresden, Germany surrenders for not having a leader after Hitler's Death.

  • Novel: First time Unstuck in Time

    Billy Pilgrim first comes unstuck in time when he walks through a door in 1955 and goes back in 1941

  • Other Area: The First Guinness Book of World Records is Published

    The idea came about in the early 1950’s when Sir Hugh Beaver (1890—1967), Managing Director of the Guinness Brewery, attended a shooting party. There, he and his hosts argued about the fastest game bird in Europe, and failed to find an answer in any reference book.

  • Novel: Billy is elected President of the Lions Club

  • Novel: Billy is in a Banquet for the Illum Little League Baseball Team

  • Other Area: The U.S. Launches the explorer 1 satellite

    The U.S begins to send their new Explorer 1 Satellite into space.

  • Novel: Billy time travels and is at a party for Optometrists

    Billy without warning is taken into the future where he is attending a party for Optometrist, or eye doctors.

  • Novel: Billy's daughter gets married

  • Novel: Billy returns to the flying saucer

    Billy returns to the Flying Saucer where he is greeted by the tralfamadorians.

  • Other Area: Nigerian Civil War begins

  • Novel: Billy survives a plain crash

  • Other Area: Martin Luther King Jr. assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee

    MLK is killed on a balcony in a Hotel in Memphis Tennessee

  • Novel: Billy predicts his death in Chicago