https://padlet.com/aviancesmith10/1cg64uonm1wq en-us 2017-03-28 13:53:08 UTC 2026-02-01 06:50:35 UTC hello@padlet.com aviancesmith10 https://padlet.com/aviancesmith10/1cg64uonm1wq/wish/163197145 Following WWII, the US adopted this policy to halt the expansion of Communism]]> 2017-03-28 16:53:30 UTC https://padlet.com/aviancesmith10/1cg64uonm1wq/wish/163197145 aviancesmith10 https://padlet.com/aviancesmith10/1cg64uonm1wq/wish/163197226 First established in 1947 after Britain no longer could afford to provide anti-communist aid to Greece and Turkey, it pledged to provide U.S. military and economic aid to any nation threatened by communism.]]> 2017-03-28 16:53:48 UTC https://padlet.com/aviancesmith10/1cg64uonm1wq/wish/163197226 aviancesmith10 https://padlet.com/aviancesmith10/1cg64uonm1wq/wish/163197323 Marshall Plan definition. A program by which the United States gave large amounts of economic aid to European countries to help them rebuild after the devastation of World War II. It was proposed by the United States secretary of state, General George C. Marshall.]]> 2017-03-28 16:54:04 UTC https://padlet.com/aviancesmith10/1cg64uonm1wq/wish/163197323 aviancesmith10 https://padlet.com/aviancesmith10/1cg64uonm1wq/wish/163197406 The Berlin Airlift, 1948–1949. At the end of the Second World War, U.S., British, and Soviet military forces divided and occupied Germany. Also divided into occupation zones, Berlin was located far inside Soviet-controlled eastern Germany.]]> 2017-03-28 16:54:18 UTC https://padlet.com/aviancesmith10/1cg64uonm1wq/wish/163197406 aviancesmith10 https://padlet.com/aviancesmith10/1cg64uonm1wq/wish/163197470 The Berlin Wall was a fortified wall made up of concrete and barbed wire made to prevent East Germans escaping to West Berlin. It was one of the most visible signs of the Cold War and the Iron Curtain.

]]> 2017-03-28 16:54:29 UTC https://padlet.com/aviancesmith10/1cg64uonm1wq/wish/163197470 aviancesmith10 https://padlet.com/aviancesmith10/1cg64uonm1wq/wish/163197520 campaign against alleged communists in the US government and other institutions carried out under Senator Joseph McCarthy in the period 1950–54. Many of the accused were blacklisted or lost their jobs, although most did not in fact belong to the Communist Party]]> 2017-03-28 16:54:37 UTC https://padlet.com/aviancesmith10/1cg64uonm1wq/wish/163197520 aviancesmith10 https://padlet.com/aviancesmith10/1cg64uonm1wq/wish/163197593 The second Red Scare refers to the fear of communism that permeated American politics, culture, and society from the late 1940s through the 1950s, during the opening phases of the Cold War with the Soviet Union.

]]> 2017-03-28 16:54:51 UTC https://padlet.com/aviancesmith10/1cg64uonm1wq/wish/163197593 aviancesmith10 https://padlet.com/aviancesmith10/1cg64uonm1wq/wish/163197635 A fallout shelter is an enclosed space specially designed to protect occupants from radioactive debris or fallout resulting from a nuclear explosion. Many such shelters were constructed as civil defense measures during the Cold War.]]> 2017-03-28 16:55:00 UTC https://padlet.com/aviancesmith10/1cg64uonm1wq/wish/163197635 aviancesmith10 https://padlet.com/aviancesmith10/1cg64uonm1wq/wish/163197712 The Korean War began when North Korea invaded South Korea. The United Nations, with the United States as the principal force, came to the aid of South Korea. China came to the aid of North Korea, and the Soviet Union gave some assistance.]]> 2017-03-28 16:55:14 UTC https://padlet.com/aviancesmith10/1cg64uonm1wq/wish/163197712 aviancesmith10 https://padlet.com/aviancesmith10/1cg64uonm1wq/wish/163197780 The Bay of Pigs was an American attempt to overthrow the newly established communist government in Cuba by training and sending Cuban rebels. The coup ended up in a disaster due to the lack of support by the Americans. The incident was an embarrassment for the U.S. and ultimately led to Castro pleading for Soviet aid (Cuban Missile Crisis)]]> 2017-03-28 16:55:23 UTC https://padlet.com/aviancesmith10/1cg64uonm1wq/wish/163197780 aviancesmith10 https://padlet.com/aviancesmith10/1cg64uonm1wq/wish/163197841 A law passed in 1944 that provided educational and other benefits for people who had served in the armed forces in World War II. Benefits are still available to persons honorably discharged from the armed forces.]]> 2017-03-28 16:55:34 UTC https://padlet.com/aviancesmith10/1cg64uonm1wq/wish/163197841 aviancesmith10 https://padlet.com/aviancesmith10/1cg64uonm1wq/wish/163197914 Suburbanization is a population shift from central urban areas into suburbs, resulting in formation of (sub)urban sprawl. Sub-urbanization is inversely related to urbanization, which denotes population shift from rural areas into urban centres.

]]> 2017-03-28 16:55:45 UTC https://padlet.com/aviancesmith10/1cg64uonm1wq/wish/163197914 aviancesmith10 https://padlet.com/aviancesmith10/1cg64uonm1wq/wish/163197969 the move of white city-dwellers to the suburbs to escape the influx of minorities]]> 2017-03-28 16:55:54 UTC https://padlet.com/aviancesmith10/1cg64uonm1wq/wish/163197969 aviancesmith10 https://padlet.com/aviancesmith10/1cg64uonm1wq/wish/163198020 The 1967 Detroit riot, also known as the 12th Street riot, was a violent public disorder that turned into a civil disturbance in Detroit, Michigan. It began in the early morning hours of Sunday, July 23, 1967]]> 2017-03-28 16:56:03 UTC https://padlet.com/aviancesmith10/1cg64uonm1wq/wish/163198020 aviancesmith10 https://padlet.com/aviancesmith10/1cg64uonm1wq/wish/163198275 The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, popularly known as the National Interstate and Defense Highways Act (Public Law 84-627), was enacted on June 29, 1956, when President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the bill into law.

]]> 2017-03-28 16:56:44 UTC https://padlet.com/aviancesmith10/1cg64uonm1wq/wish/163198275 aviancesmith10 https://padlet.com/aviancesmith10/1cg64uonm1wq/wish/163198351 pledges U.S. military and economic aid to Middle Eastern nations threatened by communist aggression.

]]> 2017-03-28 16:56:59 UTC https://padlet.com/aviancesmith10/1cg64uonm1wq/wish/163198351 aviancesmith10 https://padlet.com/aviancesmith10/1cg64uonm1wq/wish/163198514 The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is a group consisting of 12 of the world's major oil-exporting nations. OPEC was founded in 1960 to coordinate the petroleum policies of its members, and to provide member states with technical and economic aid.

]]> 2017-03-28 16:57:31 UTC https://padlet.com/aviancesmith10/1cg64uonm1wq/wish/163198514 aviancesmith10 https://padlet.com/aviancesmith10/1cg64uonm1wq/wish/163198570 The Space Race was a 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union and the United States, for supremacy in spaceflight capability.]]> 2017-03-28 16:57:41 UTC https://padlet.com/aviancesmith10/1cg64uonm1wq/wish/163198570 aviancesmith10 https://padlet.com/aviancesmith10/1cg64uonm1wq/wish/163198624 Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit on 4 October 1957. It was a 58 cm diameter polished metal sphere, with four external radio antennae to broadcast radio pulses]]> 2017-03-28 16:57:51 UTC https://padlet.com/aviancesmith10/1cg64uonm1wq/wish/163198624 aviancesmith10 https://padlet.com/aviancesmith10/1cg64uonm1wq/wish/163198703 The nuclear arms race was a competition for supremacy in nuclear warfare between the United States, the Soviet Union, and their respective allies during the Cold War.]]> 2017-03-28 16:58:05 UTC https://padlet.com/aviancesmith10/1cg64uonm1wq/wish/163198703