https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k en-us 2019-04-29 20:47:41 UTC 2019-05-02 17:24:44 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f3e1.png luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/355652083  In 1924, Congress rewarded veterans of World War I with certificates redeemable in 1945 for $1,000 each.]]> 2019-04-30 23:08:43 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/355652083 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/355652469 Poor agricultural practices and years of sustained drought caused the Dust Bowl. Plains grasslands had been deeply plowed and planted to wheat.]]> 2019-04-30 23:11:24 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/355652469 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/355652694 Washington's two-term limit became the unwritten rule for all Presidents until 1940. Roosevelt was the first and only President to serve more than two terms. The amendment was passed by Congress in 1947, and was ratified by the states on February 27, 1951.]]> 2019-04-30 23:13:14 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/355652694 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/355653202 Several New Deal programs remain active and those operating under the original names include the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation (FCIC), the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) and the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA).]]> 2019-04-30 23:16:34 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/355653202 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/355653357 The first 100 days of Franklin D. Roosevelt's presidency began on March 4, 1933, the day Franklin D. Roosevelt was inaugurated as the 32nd President of the United States. During this period, he presented a series of initiatives to Congress designed to counter the effects of the Great Depression.]]> 2019-04-30 23:17:37 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/355653357 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/355655816 The Civilian Conservation Corps was one of the most successful New Deal programs of the Great Depression. It existed for fewer than 10 years, but left a legacy of strong, handsome roads, bridges, and buildings throughout the United States. Between 1933 and 1941, more than 3,000,000 men served in the CCC.]]> 2019-04-30 23:31:30 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/355655816 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/355656116  The new agency was asked to tackle important problems facing the valley, such as flooding, providing electricity to homes and businesses, and replanting forests.]]> 2019-04-30 23:33:00 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/355656116 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/355656356 The FDIC's purpose was to provide stability to the economy and the failing banking system. Officially created by the Glass-Stag all Act of 1933 and modeled after the deposit insurance program initially enacted in Massachusetts, the FDIC guaranteed a specific amount of checking and savings deposits for its member banks.]]> 2019-04-30 23:34:15 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/355656356 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/355656592 The movement reached its apex in 1920 when Congress ratified the 18th Amendment, prohibiting the manufacture, transportation and sale of intoxicating liquors. In 1933, widespread public disillusionment led Congress to ratify the 21st Amendment, which repealed Prohibition]]> 2019-04-30 23:35:44 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/355656592 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/355656964 The Federal Housing Administration, generally known as "FHA", provides mortgage insurance on loans made by FHA-approved lenders throughout the United States and its territories. FHA insures mortgages on single family and multifamily homes including manufactured homes and hospitals.]]> 2019-04-30 23:37:52 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/355656964 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/355658330 The Securities Exchange Act of 1934 was created to govern securities transactions on the secondary market, after issue, ensuring greater financial transparency and accuracy and less fraud or manipulation]]> 2019-04-30 23:45:26 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/355658330 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356025253  On April 8 1935, the creation of the Works Progress Administration was approved by Congress as a part of FDR's New Deal. preservationists, however, there is one project of the WPA that still proves particularly useful today.]]> 2019-05-02 01:06:24 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356025253 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356025627 An act to provide for the general welfare by establishing a system of Federal old-age benefits, and by enabling the several States to make more adequate provision for aged persons, blind persons, dependent and crippled children, maternal and child welfare, public health, and the administration]]> 2019-05-02 01:08:07 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356025627 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356026883 The Fair Labor Standards Act establishes minimum wage, overtime pay, record keeping, and child labor standards affecting full-time and part-time workers in the private sector and in Federal, State, and local governments.]]> 2019-05-02 01:15:24 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356026883 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356026943 Adolf Hitler was a German politician and leader of the Nazi Party. He rose to power as Chancellor of Germany in 1933 and later in 1934. During his dictatorship from 1933 to 1945, he initiated World War II in Europe by invading Poland in September 1939]]> 2019-05-02 01:15:41 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356026943 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356027008 He was an Italian dictator who created the Fascist Party in 1919 and eventually held all the power in Italy as the country's prime minister from 1922 until 1943.]]> 2019-05-02 01:16:04 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356027008 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356027060 This Act lifted the arms embargo and put all trade with belligerent nations under the terms of “cash-and-carry.” The ban on loans remained in effect, and American ships were barred from transporting goods to belligerent ports.]]> 2019-05-02 01:16:23 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356027060 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356027105 The Allied and Axis countries circled the globe in World War II. The Allies mobilized about 62 million men and women, while the Axis mobilized about half that number. The goal of the Axis powers was simple. Germany intended to build up a powerful empire by occupying territory to the east and south.]]> 2019-05-02 01:16:42 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356027105 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356027138 Congress passed the Selective Service Act, which Wilson signed into law on May 18, 1917. The act required all men in the U.S. between the ages of 21 and 30 to register for military service. Within a few months, some 10 million men across the country had registered in response to the military draft.]]> 2019-05-02 01:16:57 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356027138 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356027204  This act set up a system that would allow the United States to lend or lease war supplies to any nation deemed, vital to the defense of the United States.]]> 2019-05-02 01:17:23 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356027204 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356027256 It's an anglicized version of the German word U-Boot, a shortening of Undersea boat, literally "undersea boat." While the German term refers to any submarine, the English one refers specifically to military submarines operated by Germany, particularly in the First and Second World Wars.]]> 2019-05-02 01:17:37 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356027256 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356027316 The Attack on Pearl Harbor was a surprise military strike by the Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service upon the United States against the naval base at Pearl Harbor.]]> 2019-05-02 01:17:58 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356027316 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356027348 It's a federal law intended to check the president's power to commit the United States to an armed conflict without the consent of the U.S. Congress.]]> 2019-05-02 01:18:09 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356027348 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356027414 The internment of Japanese Americans in the United States during World War II was the forced relocation and incarceration in concentration camps in the western interior of the country of between 110,000 and 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry.]]> 2019-05-02 01:18:32 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356027414 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356027475 The purpose was to prevent strikes that would disrupt production in war industries.]]> 2019-05-02 01:18:55 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356027475 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356027502 The Normandy landings were the landing operations on Tuesday, 6 June 1944 of the Allied invasion of Normandy in Operation Overlord during World War II. Code named Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day, it was the largest seaborne invasion in history.]]> 2019-05-02 01:19:06 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356027502 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356027573 The main 3 allied conferences were the Big Three. In World War II, the three great Allied powers—Great Britain, the United States, and the Soviet Union—formed a Grand Alliance that was the key to victory.]]> 2019-05-02 01:19:27 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356027573 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356027618 The name Fat Man refers to the early design of the bomb because it had a wide, round shape; it was also known as the Mark III. Fat Man was an implosion-type nuclear weapon with a solid plutonium core.]]> 2019-05-02 01:19:46 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356027618 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356027699 The Manhattan Project was a research and development undertaking during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons. It was led by the United States with the support of the United Kingdom and Canada.]]> 2019-05-02 01:20:13 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356027699 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356027738 He was Franklin Delano Roosevelt's vice president for just 82 days before Roosevelt died and Truman became the 33rd president. In his first months in office he dropped the atomic bomb on Japan, ending World War II.]]> 2019-05-02 01:20:27 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356027738 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356027807 Atomic bombs were dropped on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The devastation led to Japan's unconditional surrender and brought an end to World War II.]]> 2019-05-02 01:20:55 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356027807 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356027855 In Korematsu v. United States, the Supreme Court held that the wartime internment of American citizens of Japanese descent was constitutional. Above, Japanese Americans at a government-run internment camp during World War II.]]> 2019-05-02 01:21:14 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356027855 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356027904  Officially the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944, the G.I. Bill was created to help veterans of World War II. It established hospitals, made low-interest mortgages available and granted stipends covering tuition and expenses for veterans attending college or trade schools. ]]> 2019-05-02 01:21:30 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356027904 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356027935 It wasn't until 1958 that the Bretton Woods system became fully functional. This happened as currencies became convertible. The purpose of he IMF was to monitor exchange rates and lend reserve currency to nations that needed it to support their currencies and settle their debts]]> 2019-05-02 01:21:42 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356027935 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356027962 The United Nations is an intergovernmental organization that was tasked to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international co-operation and be a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.]]> 2019-05-02 01:21:54 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356027962 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356027997 With the Truman Doctrine, President Harry S. Truman established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces.]]> 2019-05-02 01:22:09 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356027997 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356028070 The Marshall Plan was an American initiative passed in 1948 to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $12 billion in economic assistance to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II.]]> 2019-05-02 01:22:33 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356028070 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356028121 North Atlantic Treaty Organization, 1949. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created in 1949 by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union.]]> 2019-05-02 01:22:50 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356028121 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356028153 The Soviet Union formed this alliance as a counterbalance to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization  NATO, a collective security alliance concluded between the United States, Canada and Western European nations in 1949. The Warsaw Pact supplemented existing agreements.]]> 2019-05-02 01:23:04 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356028153 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356028203 The world's first electronic television was created by a 21 year old inventor named Philo Taylor Earns worth. That inventor lived in a house without electricity until he was age 14.]]> 2019-05-02 01:23:20 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356028203 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356028255 The House Un-American Activities Committee was created in 1938 to investigate alleged disloyalty and subversive activities on the part of private citizens, public employees, and those organizations suspected of having Communist ties.]]> 2019-05-02 01:23:35 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356028255 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356028298 The fear of communism, known as the Red Scare, led to a national witch hunt for suspected communist supporters, which was known as McCarthyism.]]> 2019-05-02 01:23:50 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356028298 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356028326 Today, we tell the story of Edward R. Murrow, a famous radio and television broadcaster. He helped create and develop modern news broadcasting.]]> 2019-05-02 01:24:01 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356028326 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356028373 The Korean War began when the North Korean Communist army crossed the 38th Parallel and invaded non-Communist South Korea]]> 2019-05-02 01:24:13 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356028373 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356055932  Congress passed the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution, authorizing President Johnson to take any measures he believed were necessary to retaliate and to promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia. ]]> 2019-05-02 03:43:10 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356055932 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356055999 LBJ was successful in reducing unemployment and poverty; and bringing about economic growth. He is also hailed as a civil rights hero and for doing more for education than any other president.]]> 2019-05-02 03:43:32 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356055999 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356056097 The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting.]]> 2019-05-02 03:44:11 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356056097 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356056161 It demands an end to poverty and racial injustice.” Some remnants of Johnson's idealistic “Great Society” survive today. Some see the Great Society as a success, moving the nation towards a more just and equitable society]]> 2019-05-02 03:44:32 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356056161 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356056231 In  1965, President Johnson signed the Social Security Amendments which established Medicare and Medicaid, promising that they would improve a wide range of health and medical services for Americans of all ages.]]> 2019-05-02 03:45:09 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356056231 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356056275 The United States Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is a Cabinet department in the Executive branch of the United States federal government.]]> 2019-05-02 03:45:27 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356056275 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356056325 Chief Justice Earl Warren found in the case of Miranda v. Arizona that both Miranda's 5th and 6th Amendment rights were violated when he was arrested. That being said, additional evidence that was placed on Ernesto Miranda affirmed his initial rape conviction.]]> 2019-05-02 03:45:44 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356056325 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356056348 The Tet Offensive played an important role in weakening U.S. public support for the war in Vietnam.]]> 2019-05-02 03:45:59 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356056348 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356056422  The Black Panthers, also known as the Black Panther Party, was a political organization founded in 1966 by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale to challenge police brutality against the African American community. ]]> 2019-05-02 03:46:26 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356056422 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356056455  J Edgar Hoover was a US government official who served as the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation; he was in the office from 1935 until his death in 1972. ]]> 2019-05-02 03:46:39 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356056455 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356056490 In 1969, the country was deep into the controversial Vietnam War, a conflict that many young people vehemently opposed. It was also the era of the civil rights movement, a period of great unrest and protest. ]]> 2019-05-02 03:46:50 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356056490 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356056527 Cesar Chavez was an American labor leader and civil rights activist who, with Dolores Huerta, co-founded the National Farm Workers Association in 1962.]]> 2019-05-02 03:47:04 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356056527 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356056553 Dolores Clara Fernández Huerta is an American labor leader and civil rights activist who, with Cesar Chavez, is a co-founder of the National Farm workers Association, which later became the United Farm Workers.]]> 2019-05-02 03:47:18 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356056553 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356056583 Kennedy was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 64th United States Attorney General from January 1961 to September 1964, and as a U.S. Senator from New York from January 1965 until his assassination in June 1968.]]> 2019-05-02 03:47:32 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356056583 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356056642  The 2020 Democratic National Convention is an event in which delegates of the United States Democratic Party will choose the party's nominees for President of the United States and Vice President of the United States in the 2020 U.S. presidential election ]]> 2019-05-02 03:47:58 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356056642 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356056674 Under amendments to the Clean Air Act, EPA moves to protect public health by setting national health-based standards for air pollutants, setting standards for auto emissions, and requiring states to submit new air quality plans.  ]]> 2019-05-02 03:48:13 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356056674 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356056703 Roe v. Wade. Roe v. Wade was a 1973 landmark decision by the US Supreme Court. The court ruled that a state law that banned abortions]]> 2019-05-02 03:48:27 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356056703 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356056765 Nixon ended American involvement in the Vietnam War, and his administration succeeded in achieving a negotiated settlement. Nixon became the first U.S. president to visit the People's Republic of China]]> 2019-05-02 03:48:49 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356056765 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356056817 It  puts limits on the ability of the President to send American troops into combat areas without Congressional approval. Congress could presumably suspend all funds for such troops and override a Presidential veto.]]> 2019-05-02 03:49:09 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356056817 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356056894 The Pentagon Papers was the name given to a top-secret Department of Defense study of U.S. political and military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967.]]> 2019-05-02 03:49:38 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356056894 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356057008 He played a dominant role in United States foreign policy between 1969 and 1977. In that period, he extended the policy of detente.]]> 2019-05-02 03:49:49 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356057008 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356057046 The US policy of withdrawing its troops and transferring the responsibility and direction of the war effort to the government of South Vietnam.]]> 2019-05-02 03:50:05 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356057046 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356057081 In 1972, the United States and Soviet Union signed the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT). They agreed to stop making nuclear ballistic missiles and to reduce the number of anti-ballistic missiles in their arsenals.]]> 2019-05-02 03:50:16 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356057081 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356057101 The Watergate scandal was a major political scandal that occurred in the United States during 1972 to 1974]]> 2019-05-02 03:50:24 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356057101 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356057134 To be known as the Saturday Night Massacre, Nixon ordered Attorney General Elliot Richardson to fire Cox, and Richardson resigned rather than comply. Nixon then fired Richardson's assistant, William Ruckelshaus, when he too refused to fire Cox.]]> 2019-05-02 03:50:35 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356057134 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356057240 He resigned in the face of almost certain impeachment and removal from office—the only time a U.S. president has done so.]]> 2019-05-02 03:51:17 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356057240 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356057275  is a permanent, intergovernmental Organization, created at the Baghdad Conference on September 10–14, 1960, by Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela.]]> 2019-05-02 03:51:33 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356057275 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356057389 Communist North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces captured the South Vietnamese capital of Saigon, forcing South Vietnam to surrender and bringing about an end to the Vietnam War.]]> 2019-05-02 03:52:15 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356057389 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356057419 The Conference was hailed as a success and the Helsinki Accords was viewed as a significant step towards reducing Cold War tensions]]> 2019-05-02 03:52:25 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356057419 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356057445  James Earl Carter Jr. is an American politician and philanthropist who served as the 39th president of the United States from 1977 to 1981. A Democrat, he previously served as a Georgia State senator from 1963 to 1967 and as the 76th governor of Georgia ]]> 2019-05-02 03:52:39 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356057445 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356057483  The Camp David Accords, signed by President Jimmy Carter, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin in September 1978, established a framework for a historic peace treaty concluded between Israel and Egypt in March 1979. ]]> 2019-05-02 03:52:50 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356057483 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356057503  In 1979 at Three Mile Island nuclear power plant in USA a cooling malfunction caused part of the core to melt in the #2 reactor. The TMI-2 reactor was destroyed. Some radioactive gas was released a couple of days after the accident, but not enough to cause any dose above background levels to local residents. ]]> 2019-05-02 03:52:58 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356057503 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356057538 On Election Day, one year and two days after the hostage crisis began, Reagan defeated Carter in a landslide. On January 21, 1981, just a few hours after Ronald Reagan delivered his inaugural address, the remaining hostages were released.]]> 2019-05-02 03:53:11 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356057538 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356057581  The Equal Rights Amendment would provide a fundamental legal remedy against sex discrimination for both women and men. It would guarantee that the rights affirmed by the U.S. Constitution are held equally by all citizens without regard to their sex. ]]> 2019-05-02 03:53:25 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356057581 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356057611  Ronald Wilson Reagan was an American politician who served as the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989. ]]> 2019-05-02 03:53:36 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356057611 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356057640  Persons with HIV can develop signs of infection anywhere from months to years after being infected. About half of the people with HIV develop AIDS within 10 years, but the time between infection with HIV and the onset of AIDS can vary greatly. ]]> 2019-05-02 03:53:47 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356057640 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356057680  The supply side of the economy economic activity, production, had to be stimulated in order to create wealth .]]> 2019-05-02 03:54:00 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356057680 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356057706 She was an associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States from 1981 to 2006, and was the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court. ]]> 2019-05-02 03:54:11 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356057706 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356057747 The Iran–Contra affair, popularized in Iran as the McFarlane affair, also referred to as Irangate, Contragate, the Iran–Contra scandal, or simply Iran-Contra, was a political scandal in the United States that occurred during the second term of the Reagan Administration.]]> 2019-05-02 03:54:23 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356057747 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356057781  When the Soviet Union's oil and gas revenue dropped dramatically, the USSR began to lose its hold on Eastern Europe. ]]> 2019-05-02 03:54:35 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356057781 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356057804 Eleven years ago, the Persian Gulf war, fought to roll back Iraq's invasion of Kuwait, cost the United States and its allies $60 billion and helped set off an economic recession caused in part by a spike in oil prices.]]> 2019-05-02 03:54:45 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356057804 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356057833 Bush began at noon EST on January 20, 1989, when George H. W. Bush was inaugurated as the 41st President of the United States, and ended on January 20, 1993]]> 2019-05-02 03:54:56 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356057833 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356057875 2019-05-02 03:55:08 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356057875 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356057905  The North American Free Trade Agreement is an agreement signed by Canada, Mexico, and the United States, creating a trilateral trade bloc in North America. The agreement came into force on January 1, 1994. ]]> 2019-05-02 03:55:19 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356057905 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356057945 The Use of Metrics That Ignored Cash Flow. Many analysts focused on aspects of individual businesses that had nothing to do with how they generated revenue or their cash flow.]]> 2019-05-02 03:55:30 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356057945 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356057984 The incredibly tight result will energize party workers to get out every possible vote in future presidential elections.]]> 2019-05-02 03:55:42 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356057984 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356058022 3,000 people were killed during the 9/11 terrorist attacks, which triggered major U.S. initiatives to combat terrorism and defined the presidency of George W. Bush.

]]> 2019-05-02 03:55:55 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356058022 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356058050  The War on Terror, also known as the Global War on Terrorism, is an international military campaign that was launched by the United States government after the September 11 attacks against the United States. ]]> 2019-05-02 03:56:07 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356058050 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356058075 The act's official title is, “Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism,” or USA-PATRIOT.]]> 2019-05-02 03:56:17 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356058075 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356065604  George F. Kennan , a career Foreign Service Officer, formulated the policy of containment, the basic United States strategy for fighting the cold war (1947–1989) with the Soviet Union. ]]> 2019-05-02 04:46:15 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356065604 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356072268 Theodore Roosevelt Jr. was an American statesman, politician, conservationist, naturalist, and writer who served as the 26th president of the United States from 1901 to 1909. Roosevelt served as Assistant Secretary of the Navy under President William McKinley, but resigned from that post to lead the Rough Riders during the Spanish–American War. Returning a war hero, he was elected Governor of New York in 1898.]]> 2019-05-02 05:37:10 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356072268 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356072416 The Roosevelt Corollary of December 1904 stated that the United States would intervene as a last resort to ensure that other nations in the Western Hemisphere fulfilled their obligations to international creditors, and did not violate the rights of the United States or invite “foreign aggression to the detriment of the entire body of American nations.” ]]> 2019-05-02 05:38:12 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356072416 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356072679 The Panama Canal is an artificial 82 km waterway in Panama that connects the Atlantic Ocean with the Pacific Ocean. The canal cuts across the Isthmus of Panama and is a conduit for maritime trade.]]> 2019-05-02 05:40:39 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356072679 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356072802 Niagara Movement (1905-1909) The Niagara Movement was a civil rights group organized by W.E.B. DuBois and William Monroe Trotter in 1905. ... Members of the Niagara movement sent a powerful message to the entire country through their condemnation of racial discrimination and their call for an end to segregation.]]> 2019-05-02 05:41:53 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356072802 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356073259 In 1895, he became the first African American to earn a Ph.D. from Harvard University. Du Bois wrote extensively and was the best known spokesperson for African-American rights during the first half of the 20th century. He co-founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909.]]> 2019-05-02 05:46:42 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356073259 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356073365 His book, How the Other Half Lives (1890), stimulated the first significant New York legislation to curb poor conditions in tenement housing. It was also an important predecessor to muckraking journalism, which took shape in the United States after 1900.]]> 2019-05-02 05:47:53 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356073365 luciasomilleda https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356073569 2019-05-02 05:49:42 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356073569 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356073591 The Jungle is a novel written in 1904 by the American journalist and novelist Upton Sinclair. Sinclair wrote the novel to portray the harsh conditions and exploited lives of immigrants in the United States in Chicago and similar industrialized cities.]]> 2019-05-02 05:49:57 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356073591 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356073765 Pure Food and Drug Act (1906) For preventing the manufacture, sale, or transportation of adulterated or misbranded or poisonous or deleterious foods,drugs, medicines, and liquors, and for regulating traffic therein, and for other purposes.]]> 2019-05-02 05:51:20 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356073765 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356076050 The term muckraker was used in the Progressive Era to characterize reform-minded American journalists who attacked established institutions and leaders as corrupt. They typically had large audiences in some popular magazines.]]> 2019-05-02 06:12:22 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356076050 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356076244 Muller v. Oregon, 208 U.S. 412, was a landmark decision by the United States Supreme Court. Women were provided by state mandate lesser work-hours than allotted to men. The posed question was whether women's liberty to negotiate a contract with an employer should be equal to a man's. ]]> 2019-05-02 06:13:43 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356076244 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356076387 The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire in New York City on March 25, 1911, was the deadliest industrial disaster in the history of the city, and one of the deadliest in U.S. history. ]]> 2019-05-02 06:14:37 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356076387 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356076589 17th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: Direct Election of U.S. Senators. Americans did not directly vote for senators for the first 125 years of the Federal Government. The Constitution, as it was adopted in 1788, stated that senators would be elected by state legislatures.]]> 2019-05-02 06:15:53 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356076589 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356076792 Margaret Sanger devoted her life to legalizing birth control and making it universally available for women. Born in 1879, Sanger came of age during the heyday of the Comstock Act, a federal statute that criminalized contraceptives. Margaret Sanger believed that the only way to change the law was to break it.]]> 2019-05-02 06:17:15 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356076792 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356076961 The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution prohibits the states and the federal government from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex.]]> 2019-05-02 06:18:26 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356076961 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356078746 Triple Entente consisted of mostly progressive nations, Constitutional Monarchy, Republic and Russia. Triple Entente is a French word, so France was a part of it, they were on the side of the Allies and so that includes Great Britain and Russia. The triple Alliance had Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy.]]> 2019-05-02 06:28:03 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356078746 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356079271 Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey v. United States, 221 U.S. 1, was a case in which the Supreme Court of the United States found Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey guilty of monopolizing the petroleum industry through a series of abusive and anti-competitive actions. ]]> 2019-05-02 06:31:02 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356079271 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356079427 Thomas Woodrow Wilson was an American statesman, lawyer, and academic who served as the 28th president of the United States from 1913 to 1921. A member of the Democratic Party, Wilson served as the president of Princeton University and as the 34th governor of New Jersey before winning the 1912 presidential election. ]]> 2019-05-02 06:32:00 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356079427 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356079543 The 16th amendment is an important amendment that allows the federal (United States) government to levy (collect) an income tax from all Americans. Income tax allows for the federal government to keep an army, build roads and bridges, enforce laws and carry out other important duties.]]> 2019-05-02 06:32:40 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356079543 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356079797 The Federal Reserve Act was passed by the 63rd United States Congress and signed into law by President Woodrow Wilson on December 23, 1913. The law created the Federal Reserve System, the central banking system of the United States. ]]> 2019-05-02 06:33:46 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356079797 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356079996 Difference in policies were to blame, although the immediate cause of World War one was the assassination of Austria's Archduke Franz Ferdinand. The war started mainly because of four aspects: Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism and Nationalism.]]> 2019-05-02 06:34:39 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356079996 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356080293 On 4 February 1915 Germany declared the seas around Great Britain a war zone subject to submarine warfare and that allied ships in the area would be sunk without warning. The Germans believed that the Lusitania was carrying war supplies.]]> 2019-05-02 06:36:04 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356080293 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356080534 Submarines changed the war because it was easier to attack enemies from under the water. As a result, Germany sank British ships. During WWI, German military had adopted a policy called "unrestricted submarine warfare". Therefore,submarines were allowed to attack non-military ships.]]> 2019-05-02 06:37:15 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356080534 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356080853 The Zimmermann Telegram was a secret diplomatic communication issued from the German Foreign Office in January 1917 that proposed a military alliance between Germany and Mexico. In the event that the United States entered World War I against Germany, Mexico would recover Texas, Arizona and New Mexico.]]> 2019-05-02 06:39:04 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356080853 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356081896 The Committee on Public Information, also known as the CPI or the Creel Committee, was an independent agency of the government of the United States created to influence public opinion to support US participation in World War I. ]]> 2019-05-02 06:43:38 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356081896 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356082086 The Selective Service Act of 1917 or Selective Draft Act authorized the United States federal government to raise a national army for service in World War I through conscription.]]> 2019-05-02 06:44:44 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356082086 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356082761 The Sedition Act of 1918 was an Act of the United States Congress that extended the Espionage Act of 1917 to cover a broader range of offenses, notably speech and the expression of opinion that cast the government or the war effort in a negative light or interfered with the sale of government bonds.]]> 2019-05-02 06:48:24 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356082761 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356084877 The Bolsheviks, also known in English as Bolshevists, were a faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party which split apart from the Menshevik faction at the Second Party Congress in 1903.]]> 2019-05-02 06:58:48 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356084877 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356085282 The Fourteen Points was a statement of principles for peace that was to be used for peace negotiations in order to end World War I. The principles were outlined in a January 8, 1918, speech on war aims and peace terms to the United States Congress by President Woodrow Wilson.]]> 2019-05-02 07:00:46 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356085282 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356085459 The Treaty of Versailles was the most important of the peace treaties that brought World War I to an end. The Treaty ended the state of war between Germany and the Allied Powers.]]> 2019-05-02 07:01:48 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356085459 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356085749 The Chicago race riot of 1919 was a major racial conflict of violence committed by ethnic white Americans against black Americans that began in Chicago, Illinois, on July 27, 1919, and ended on August 3. During the riot, thirty-eight people died (23 black and 15 white) and over five hundred were injured.]]> 2019-05-02 07:03:03 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356085749 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356085952 Henry Ford, a pioneer of the American Revolution and founder of the Ford Motor Company, sponsored and developed the earliest assembly line technique composed in mass production. Henry Ford combined Whitney's concept of interchangeable parts to create a continuous flow of mass production known as the assembly line. Henry Ford's Model T automobile changed the face of the transportation industry.]]> 2019-05-02 07:04:06 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356085952 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356086130 Universal Negro Improvement Association (UNIA), primarily in the United States, organization founded by Marcus Garvey (q.v.), dedicated to racial pride, economic self-sufficiency, and the formation of an independent black nation in Africa.]]> 2019-05-02 07:05:19 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356086130 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356086697 The 18th amendment is the only amendment to be repealed from the constitution. This unpopular amendment banned the sale and drinking of alcohol in the United States. This amendment took effect in 1919 and was a huge failure.]]> 2019-05-02 07:08:49 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356086697 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356086849 Prohibition in the United States was a nationwide constitutional ban on the production, importation, transportation, and sale of alcoholic beverages from 1920 to 1933. ]]> 2019-05-02 07:09:40 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356086849 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356087038 Signifying a cultural shift in the aftermath of World War I, the collective works by these authors represent what many consider to be a golden age of American literature. By examining how these authors influenced the reading habits of a generation, Beyond Gatsby enables readers to gain a deeper comprehension of how literature shapes culture.]]> 2019-05-02 07:10:44 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356087038 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356087470 The Harlem Renaissance was an intellectual, social, and artistic explosion centered in Harlem, New York, spanning the 1920s. At the time, it was known as the "New Negro Movement", named after The New Negro, a 1925 anthology edited by Alain Locke.]]> 2019-05-02 07:12:53 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356087470 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356087667  The Sacco and Vanzetti case is widely regarded as a miscarriage of justice in American legal history. Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Italian immigrants and anarchists, were executed for murder by the state of Massachusetts in 1927 on the basis of doubtful ballistics evidence . ]]> 2019-05-02 07:13:53 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356087667 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356087921 A law that severely restricted immigration by establishing a system of national quotas that blatantly discriminated against immigrants from southern and eastern Europe and virtually excluded Asians. The policy stayed in effect until the 1960s.]]> 2019-05-02 07:14:58 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356087921 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356088324 The Scopes Trial, formally known as The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes and commonly referred to as the Scopes Monkey Trial, was an American legal case in July 1925 in which a substitute high school teacher, John T. Scopes, was accused of violating Tennessee's Butler Act, which had made it unlawful to teach human evolution in any state-funded school. The trial was deliberately staged in order to attract publicity to the small town of Dayton Tennessee, where it was held. ]]> 2019-05-02 07:16:56 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356088324 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356088782 It is the first feature-length motion picture with not only a synchronized recorded music score but also lip-synchronous singing and speech in several isolated sequences. Its release heralded the commercial ascendance of sound films and ended the silent film era.]]> 2019-05-02 07:19:03 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356088782 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356089111 Born Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr. on February 4, 1902, in Detroit, Michigan,Charles Lindbergh became famous for making the first solo transatlantic airplane flight in 1927. He went to Lincoln, Nebraska, where he made his first solo flight in 1923.]]> 2019-05-02 07:20:32 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356089111 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356089327  Herbert Clark Hoover was an American engineer, businessman, and politician who served as the 31st president of the United States from 1929 to 1933. A member of the Republican Party, he held office during the onset of the Great Depression. ]]> 2019-05-02 07:21:43 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356089327 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356089497 The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as the Stock Market Crash of 1929 or the Great Crash, is a major stock market crash that occurred in late October 1929.]]> 2019-05-02 07:22:37 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356089497 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356247850 Douglas MacArthur was an American five-star general and Field Marshal of the Philippine Army. He was Chief of Staff of the United States Army during the 1930s and played a prominent role in the Pacific theater during World War II. ]]> 2019-05-02 15:15:14 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356247850 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356254945 The Immigration and Nationality Act is a comprehensive federal immigration law adopted in 1952. Also known as the McCarran–Walter Act, the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1952 modified the national origins quota system, which had been established under the Immigration Act of 1924.]]> 2019-05-02 15:28:18 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356254945 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356256380 Dwight David "Ike" Eisenhower was an American army general and statesman who served as the 34th president of the United States from 1953 to 1961. During World War II, he was a five-star general in the United States Army and served as supreme commander of the Allied Expeditionary Forces in Europe. ]]> 2019-05-02 15:30:47 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356256380 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356257974 Warren also led the Warren Commission, a presidential commission that investigated the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy. He is as of 2019 the last Chief Justice to have served in an elected office. Warren was born in 1891 in Los Angeles and was raised in Bakersfield, California.]]> 2019-05-02 15:33:37 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356257974 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356259446 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483, was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that American state laws establishing racial segregation in public schools are unconstitutional, even if the segregated schools are otherwise equal in quality.]]> 2019-05-02 15:36:00 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356259446 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356260461 The Geneva Conference was a conference among several nations that took place in Geneva, Switzerland from April 26 – July 20, 1954. It was intended to settle outstanding issues resulting from the Korean War and the First Indochina War.]]> 2019-05-02 15:37:33 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356260461 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356261107 The Montgomery bus boycott was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system of Montgomery, Alabama. It was a seminal event in the civil rights movement. ]]> 2019-05-02 15:38:39 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356261107 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356261637 Little Rock Central High School is an accredited comprehensive public high school in Little Rock, Arkansas, United States. The school was the site of forced desegregation in 1957 after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that segregation of public schools was unconstitutional three years earlier. ]]> 2019-05-02 15:39:31 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356261637 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356268129 The domino theory was a theory prominent from the 1950s to the 1980s that posited that if one country in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow in a domino effect.]]> 2019-05-02 15:51:20 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356268129 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356270298 The National Security Act of 1947 was a major restructuring of the United States government's military and intelligence agencies following World War II. The majority of the provisions of the Act took effect on September 18, 1947, the day after the Senate confirmed James Forrestal as the first Secretary of Defense.]]> 2019-05-02 15:55:20 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356270298 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356273426 The Central Intelligence Agency is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the federal government of the United States, tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence.]]> 2019-05-02 16:00:50 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356273426 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356275342 Iron Curtain, the political, military, and ideological barrier erected by the Soviet Union after World War II to seal off itself and its dependent eastern and central European allies from open contact with the West and other non-communist areas.]]> 2019-05-02 16:04:31 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356275342 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356278713 The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is an independent agency of the United States Federal Government responsible for the civilian space program, as well as aeronautics and aerospace research. NASA was established in 1958, succeeding the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics.]]> 2019-05-02 16:10:33 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356278713 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356282889 Camp David is the country retreat for the President of the United States. It is located in the wooded hills of Catoctin Mountain Park near Thurmont, Maryland, also near Emmitsburg, Maryland about 62 miles north-northwest of Washington, D.C.]]> 2019-05-02 16:18:08 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356282889 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356284632 The Cuban communist revolutionary and politician Fidel Castro took part in the Cuban Revolution from 1953 to 1959. Following on from his early life, Castro decided to fight for the overthrow of Fulgencio Batista's military junta by founding a paramilitary organisation, "The Movement".]]> 2019-05-02 16:21:37 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356284632 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356285111 The Lockheed U-2, nicknamed "Dragon Lady", is an American single-jet engine, ultra-high altitude reconnaissance aircraft operated by the United States Air Force and previously flown by the Central Intelligence Agency. It provides day and night, high-altitude, all-weather intelligence gathering.]]> 2019-05-02 16:22:42 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356285111 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356286044 Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit on 4 October 1957, orbiting for three weeks before its batteries died, then silently for two more months before falling back into the atmosphere.]]> 2019-05-02 16:24:45 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356286044 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356286869 John F. Kennedy is most famous for being assassinated early in his presidency. He is also famous for the Bay of Pigs invasion and the Cuban missile crisis. ]]> 2019-05-02 16:26:28 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356286869 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356287441 Sit-ins were an integral part of the nonviolent strategy of civil disobedience and mass protests that eventually led to passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which ended legally sanctioned racial segregation in the United States and also passage of the Voting Rights of 1965 that struck down many racially motivated barriers used to deny voting rights to non-whites.]]> 2019-05-02 16:27:34 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356287441 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356289602 On April 17, 1961, 1400 Cuban exiles launched what became a botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba. In 1959, Fidel Castro came to power in an armed revolt that overthrew Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista.On April 17, 1961, 1400 Cuban exiles launched what became a botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba. In 1959, Fidel Castro came to power in an armed revolt that overthrew Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista.]]> 2019-05-02 16:31:38 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356289602 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356290166 In an effort to stem the tide of refugees attempting to leave East Berlin, the communist government of East Germany begins building the Berlin Wall to divide East and West Berlin. Construction of the wall caused a short-term crisis in U.S.-Soviet bloc relations, and the wall itself came to symbolize the Cold War.]]> 2019-05-02 16:32:47 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356290166 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356304754 Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), interracial American organization established by James Farmer in 1942 to improve race relations and end discriminatory policies through direct-action projects.]]> 2019-05-02 17:01:39 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356304754 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356312021 Freedom Riders end racial segregation in Southern U.S. public transit, 1961. Goals: To desegregate interstate transportation, including highways, bus stops, and train terminals.]]> 2019-05-02 17:14:45 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356312021 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356312610 The Apollo program, also known as Project Apollo, was the third United States human spaceflight program carried out by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, which succeeded in landing the first humans on the Moon from 1969 to 1972.]]> 2019-05-02 17:15:56 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356312610 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356316763 Vietnam is a Southeast Asian country on the South China Sea known for its beaches, rivers, Buddhist pagodas and bustling cities. Hanoi, the capital, pays homage to the nation’s iconic Communist-era leader, Ho Chi Minh, via a huge marble mausoleum. Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon) has French colonial landmarks, plus Vietnamese War history museums and the Củ Chi tunnels, used by Viet Cong soldiers.]]> 2019-05-02 17:22:42 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356316763 aaliyahmontemayor https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356317220 Hồ Chí Minh, born Nguyễn Sinh Cung, also known as Nguyễn Tất Thành, Nguyễn Ái Quốc, Bác Hồ or simply Bác, was a Vietnamese Communist revolutionary leader who was Chairman and First Secretary of the Workers' Party of Vietnam. He was also Prime Minister and President of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam. ]]> 2019-05-02 17:23:35 UTC https://padlet.com/luciasomilleda/1mudnltf1t0k/wish/356317220