timelines

Yes, creating a consolidated timeline can be very effective for remembering the events. Here's a combined timeline of the major events and periods from all the videos you've reviewed:

Global History Timeline (Key Events for Regents)

* 1800s (19th Century)

* Industrial Revolution begins (Britain)

* New Imperialism (Scramble for Africa, British in India and China)

* British control over India (from Sepoy Rebellion in 1857 until 1947)

* Opium Wars (China)

* Boxer Rebellion (China)

* Growth of Japan begins (forced open by US in 1854)

* German and Italian Unification (both by 1871)

* Berlin Conference (1884)

* Early 20th Century

* World War I (1914-1918)

* Treaty of Versailles (1919)

* Russian Revolution (1917)

* Stalin's Rule (Five-Year Plans, Collectivization, Purges - 1920s-1930s)

* Holodomor (early 1930s)

* Rise of Nazism (1930s)

* Nuremberg Laws (1935)

* Rape of Nanjing (1937)

* Kristallnacht (1938)

* German Invasion of Poland (September 1, 1939 - start of WWII in Europe)

* Hitler invades Soviet Union (June 1941)

* US enters WWII (December 1941)

* Wannsee Conference (1942)

* Battle of Stalingrad (turning point in WWII)

* Post-World War II (Mid-Late 20th Century)

* Decolonization begins (primarily after 1945)

* UN Declaration of Human Rights (1948)

* Establishment of Israel (1948)

* Apartheid in South Africa begins (1948)

* Chinese Communist Revolution (Mao Zedong wins, PRC established October 1, 1949)

* Cold War begins (1945 - 1991)

* Korean War (1950-1953)

* Ghana gains independence (1957)

* Great Leap Forward (1958-1962)

* Sharpeville Massacre (1960)

* Nelson Mandela imprisoned (1963)

* Kenya gains independence (1964)

* Cultural Revolution (began 1966, lasted ~10 years)

* Six-Day War (1967)

* Soweto Uprising (1976)

* Mao Zedong dies (1976), Deng Xiaoping rises

* Camp David Accords (late 1970s)

* One-Child Policy begins (1979)

* Iranian Revolution (1979)

* Tiananmen Square protests (1989)

* Berlin Wall falls (November 1989)

* Nelson Mandela released (1990)

* End of the Cold War (Soviet Union dissolves December 26, 1991)

* Rwandan Genocide (1994)

* First free election in South Africa, Apartheid ends (1994)