https://padlet.com/johnsokj241/12hd2cxbj8cgn674 en-us 2023-04-26 13:24:52 UTC 2023-05-11 13:15:24 UTC hello@padlet.com johnsokj241 https://padlet.com/johnsokj241/12hd2cxbj8cgn674/wish/2570818517 The failed invasion strengthened the position of Castro's administration, which proceeded to openly proclaim its intention to adopt socialism and pursue closer ties with the Soviet Union.]]> 2023-04-27 18:51:25 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsokj241/12hd2cxbj8cgn674/wish/2570818517 johnsokj241 https://padlet.com/johnsokj241/12hd2cxbj8cgn674/wish/2570818632 The Korean Peninsula remained split largely as it had since the end of World War II at the 38th parallel after the signing of an armistice, which put a halt to organized combat operations.

]]> 2023-04-27 18:51:30 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsokj241/12hd2cxbj8cgn674/wish/2570818632 johnsokj241 https://padlet.com/johnsokj241/12hd2cxbj8cgn674/wish/2570834905 On Friday, November 22, 1963, John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, was assassinated at 12:30 p.m. CST in Dallas, Texas, while riding in a presidential motorcade through Dealey Plaza.
Kennedy's death on November 22, 1963, traumatized a nation and led a united Congress to make a constitutional change, in the form of the 25th amendment.]]> 2023-04-27 19:06:42 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsokj241/12hd2cxbj8cgn674/wish/2570834905 johnsokj241 https://padlet.com/johnsokj241/12hd2cxbj8cgn674/wish/2573192430 On stage at the Audubon Ballroom on February 21, 1965, Malcolm X was gunned down as his pregnant wife and four daughters took cover in the front row. Three members of the Nation of Islam—Mujahid Abdul Halim, Muhammad A. Aziz and Khalil Islam—were soon after charged with first-degree murder.
As a Black Muslim, Malcolm X preached violence as a solution to oppression.]]> 2023-05-01 00:03:18 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsokj241/12hd2cxbj8cgn674/wish/2573192430 johnsokj241 https://padlet.com/johnsokj241/12hd2cxbj8cgn674/wish/2573193482 Segregation on public buses was declared unlawful by the Supreme Court after a 381-day Montgomery Bus Boycott. The Montgomery Bus Boycott made a significant contribution to transit equity and civil rights, helping to remove early barriers to access.]]> 2023-05-01 00:05:19 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsokj241/12hd2cxbj8cgn674/wish/2573193482 johnsokj241 https://padlet.com/johnsokj241/12hd2cxbj8cgn674/wish/2573194983 Justice Earl Warren of the U.S. Supreme Court delivered the unanimous decision in the historic civil rights case Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas, on May 17, 1954. Public school segregation that was authorized by the state was against the 14th amendment and hence unconstitutional.]]> 2023-05-01 00:07:38 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsokj241/12hd2cxbj8cgn674/wish/2573194983 johnsokj241 https://padlet.com/johnsokj241/12hd2cxbj8cgn674/wish/2573197009 On July 20, 1969, American astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin became the first humans ever to land on the moon. About six-and-a-half hours later, Armstrong became the first person to walk on the moon. The moon landing taught us about the composition of the moon. It gave us the first perspective of the Earth from Space.]]> 2023-05-01 00:11:05 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsokj241/12hd2cxbj8cgn674/wish/2573197009 johnsokj241 https://padlet.com/johnsokj241/12hd2cxbj8cgn674/wish/2573200417 On August 28, 1955, while visiting family in Money, Mississippi, 14-year-old Emmett Till, an African American from Chicago, is brutally murdered for allegedly flirting with a white woman four days earlier. Emmett Till's murder was a spark in the upsurge of activism and resistance that became known as the Civil Rights movement.]]> 2023-05-01 00:16:10 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsokj241/12hd2cxbj8cgn674/wish/2573200417 johnsokj241 https://padlet.com/johnsokj241/12hd2cxbj8cgn674/wish/2573202225 On August 28 1963, a quarter of a million people rallied in Washington, D.C. to demand an end to segregation, fair wages and economic justice, voting rights, education, and long overdue civil rights protections. The purpose of the march was to advocate for the civil and economic rights of African Americans. At the march, final speaker Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., standing in front of the Lincoln Memorial, delivered his historic "I Have a Dream" speech in which he called for an end to racism.]]> 2023-05-01 00:18:59 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsokj241/12hd2cxbj8cgn674/wish/2573202225 johnsokj241 https://padlet.com/johnsokj241/12hd2cxbj8cgn674/wish/2573203496 On November 9, 1989, as the Cold War began to thaw across Eastern Europe, the spokesman for East Berlin's Communist Party announced a change in his city's relations with the West. Starting at midnight that day, he said, citizens of the GDR were free to cross the country's borders. The fall of the Berlin Wall was the first step towards German reunification. The political, economic and social impact of the fall of the Berlin Wall further weakened the already unstable East German government.]]> 2023-05-01 00:21:03 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsokj241/12hd2cxbj8cgn674/wish/2573203496 johnsokj241 https://padlet.com/johnsokj241/12hd2cxbj8cgn674/wish/2585510543 The Cuban Missle Crisis of 1962 was the closest the two superpowers got to a nuclear exchange during the Cold War. It involved a direct and dangerous confrontation between the US and the USSR.]]> 2023-05-10 13:28:42 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsokj241/12hd2cxbj8cgn674/wish/2585510543 johnsokj241 https://padlet.com/johnsokj241/12hd2cxbj8cgn674/wish/2585527459 HUAC was established in 1938 to look into claims of disloyalty and rebellious behavior on the part of people thought to have ties to the Communist Party. People who were thought to have connections to the communist party would face legal proceedings.

]]> 2023-05-10 13:39:53 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsokj241/12hd2cxbj8cgn674/wish/2585527459 johnsokj241 https://padlet.com/johnsokj241/12hd2cxbj8cgn674/wish/2585530765 Having rebuilt their forces and upgraded their logistics system, North Vietnamese forces triggered a major offensive in the Central Highlands in March 1975. On April 30, 1975, NVA tanks rolled through the gate of the Presidential Palace in Saigon, effectively ending the war.]]> 2023-05-10 13:41:56 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsokj241/12hd2cxbj8cgn674/wish/2585530765 johnsokj241 https://padlet.com/johnsokj241/12hd2cxbj8cgn674/wish/2585533137 This sustained aerial bombardment, which had been named Operation Desert Storm, destroyed Iraq's air defenses before attacking its communications networks, government buildings, weapons plants, oil refineries, and bridges and roads.]]> 2023-05-10 13:43:28 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsokj241/12hd2cxbj8cgn674/wish/2585533137 johnsokj241 https://padlet.com/johnsokj241/12hd2cxbj8cgn674/wish/2585535100 Through their defiance, the Freedom Riders attracted the attention of the Kennedy Administration and as a direct result of their work, the Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC) issued regulations banning segregation in interstate travel that fall.]]> 2023-05-10 13:44:43 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsokj241/12hd2cxbj8cgn674/wish/2585535100 johnsokj241 https://padlet.com/johnsokj241/12hd2cxbj8cgn674/wish/2585536786 The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. Provisions of this civil rights act forbade discrimination on the basis of sex, as well as, race in hiring, promoting, and firing.]]> 2023-05-10 13:45:54 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsokj241/12hd2cxbj8cgn674/wish/2585536786 johnsokj241 https://padlet.com/johnsokj241/12hd2cxbj8cgn674/wish/2585539183 This act was signed into law on August 6, 1965, by President Lyndon Johnson. It outlawed the discriminatory voting practices adopted in many southern states after the Civil War, including literacy tests as a prerequisite to voting]]> 2023-05-10 13:47:18 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsokj241/12hd2cxbj8cgn674/wish/2585539183 johnsokj241 https://padlet.com/johnsokj241/12hd2cxbj8cgn674/wish/2585540832 Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated on a balcony outside his second-floor room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee, at 6:05 PM on Thursday, April 4, 1968. James Earl Ray, a 40-year-old escaped fugitive, afterwards admitted to the crime and was given a 99-year prison term.MLK's death and the civil rights movement would lead to the desegregation of schools and more equality. The Vietnam War and the Tet Offensive led Americans to distrust the government, gave them a reason to use their freedom of speech and protest, and led to the change in Americas military strategy.]]> 2023-05-10 13:48:24 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsokj241/12hd2cxbj8cgn674/wish/2585540832 johnsokj241 https://padlet.com/johnsokj241/12hd2cxbj8cgn674/wish/2585543562 The murders of Chaney, Goodman, and Schwerner, also known as the Freedom Summer murders, refers to events in which three activists were abducted and murdered in the city of Philadelphia, Mississippi, in June 1964 during the Civil Rights Movement. The victims were James Chaney, Andrew Goodman and Michael Schwerner. All three were associated with the Council of Federated Organizations (COFO) and its member organization, the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE).]]> 2023-05-10 13:50:04 UTC https://padlet.com/johnsokj241/12hd2cxbj8cgn674/wish/2585543562