https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/3fadf883zn6wzdw8 Made with the strength to succeed en-us 2021-04-19 13:00:19 UTC 2021-04-19 14:03:55 UTC hello@padlet.com ttwi5083 https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/3fadf883zn6wzdw8/wish/1432839749 The Peace Corps is an independent agency and volunteer program run by the United States Government providing international social and economic development assistance]]> 2021-04-19 13:01:22 UTC https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/3fadf883zn6wzdw8/wish/1432839749 ttwi5083 https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/3fadf883zn6wzdw8/wish/1432858272 The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis of 1962, the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare, was a 1 month, 4 day confrontation]]> 2021-04-19 13:05:11 UTC https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/3fadf883zn6wzdw8/wish/1432858272 ttwi5083 https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/3fadf883zn6wzdw8/wish/1432861535 The Great Society was a set of domestic programs in the United States launched by Democratic President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964–65. It was coined during a 1964 speech by President Lyndon B. Johnson at Ohio University and came to represent his domestic agenda.]]> 2021-04-19 13:05:50 UTC https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/3fadf883zn6wzdw8/wish/1432861535 ttwi5083 https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/3fadf883zn6wzdw8/wish/1432867567 an apparent difference between what is said or promised and what happens or is true.]]> 2021-04-19 13:06:57 UTC https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/3fadf883zn6wzdw8/wish/1432867567 ttwi5083 https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/3fadf883zn6wzdw8/wish/1432869839  federal law intended to check the U.S. president's power to commit the United States to an armed conflict without the consent of the U.S. Congress.]]> 2021-04-19 13:07:26 UTC https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/3fadf883zn6wzdw8/wish/1432869839 ttwi5083 https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/3fadf883zn6wzdw8/wish/1432874196 In modern American usage "hawk" refers to a fierce advocate for a cause or policy, ]]> 2021-04-19 13:08:21 UTC https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/3fadf883zn6wzdw8/wish/1432874196 ttwi5083 https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/3fadf883zn6wzdw8/wish/1432880896 A hotline is a point-to-point communications link in which a call is automatically directed to the preselected destination without any additional action]]> 2021-04-19 13:09:47 UTC https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/3fadf883zn6wzdw8/wish/1432880896 ttwi5083 https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/3fadf883zn6wzdw8/wish/1432888259  US policy of withdrawing its troops and transferring the responsibility and direction of the war effort to the government of South Vietnam.]]> 2021-04-19 13:11:13 UTC https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/3fadf883zn6wzdw8/wish/1432888259 ttwi5083 https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/3fadf883zn6wzdw8/wish/1432963742 On August 7, 1964, 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.]]> 2021-04-19 13:25:29 UTC https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/3fadf883zn6wzdw8/wish/1432963742 ttwi5083 https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/3fadf883zn6wzdw8/wish/1432966472 Gideon v. Wainwright, 372 U.S. 335, is a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court unanimously held that in criminal cases states are required under the Sixth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution to provide an attorney to defendants who are unable to afford their own attorneys.]]> 2021-04-19 13:25:58 UTC https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/3fadf883zn6wzdw8/wish/1432966472 ttwi5083 https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/3fadf883zn6wzdw8/wish/1432970010 Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436, was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution restricts prosecutors from using a person's]]> 2021-04-19 13:26:36 UTC https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/3fadf883zn6wzdw8/wish/1432970010 ttwi5083 https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/3fadf883zn6wzdw8/wish/1432980802 Engel v. Vitale, 370 U.S. 421, was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court ruled that it is unconstitutional for state officials to compose an official school prayer and encourage its recitation in public schools. Engel has been the subject of intense debate.]]> 2021-04-19 13:28:28 UTC https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/3fadf883zn6wzdw8/wish/1432980802 ttwi5083 https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/3fadf883zn6wzdw8/wish/1432994261 The Alliance for Progress, initiated by U.S. President John F. Kennedy in 1961, aimed to establish economic cooperation between the U.S. and Latin America]]> 2021-04-19 13:30:54 UTC https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/3fadf883zn6wzdw8/wish/1432994261 ttwi5083 https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/3fadf883zn6wzdw8/wish/1432997357 Flexible Response, also called Flexible Deterrent Options (FDO), U.S. defense strategy in which a wide range of diplomatic, political, economic, and military options are used to deter an enemy attack.]]> 2021-04-19 13:31:29 UTC https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/3fadf883zn6wzdw8/wish/1432997357 ttwi5083 https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/3fadf883zn6wzdw8/wish/1433001518 Medicare is a national health insurance program in the United States, begun in 1966 under the Social Security Administration and now administered by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.]]> 2021-04-19 13:32:16 UTC https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/3fadf883zn6wzdw8/wish/1433001518 ttwi5083 https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/3fadf883zn6wzdw8/wish/1433004914 The New Left was a broad political movement mainly in the 1960s and 1970s consisting of activists in the Western world who campaigned for a broad range of social issues such as civil and political rights, feminism, gay rights, abortion-rights, gender roles and drug policy reforms.]]> 2021-04-19 13:32:54 UTC https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/3fadf883zn6wzdw8/wish/1433004914 ttwi5083 https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/3fadf883zn6wzdw8/wish/1433007983 The Pentagon Papers, officially titled Report of the Office of the Secretary of Defense Vietnam Task Force, is a United States Department of Defense history of the United States' political and military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967. ]]> 2021-04-19 13:33:29 UTC https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/3fadf883zn6wzdw8/wish/1433007983 ttwi5083 https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/3fadf883zn6wzdw8/wish/1433013008 DOVES AND HAWKS are terms applied to people based upon their views about a military conflict. A dove is someone who opposes the use of military pressure to resolve a dispute; a hawk favors entry into war. The terms came into widespread use during the Vietnam War, but their roots are much older than that conflict.]]> 2021-04-19 13:34:24 UTC https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/3fadf883zn6wzdw8/wish/1433013008 ttwi5083 https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/3fadf883zn6wzdw8/wish/1433021361 The Viet Cong, officially known as the National Liberation Front of Southern Vietnam, was an armed communist political revolutionary organization in South Vietnam and Cambodia.]]> 2021-04-19 13:35:51 UTC https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/3fadf883zn6wzdw8/wish/1433021361 ttwi5083 https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/3fadf883zn6wzdw8/wish/1433025597 The My Lai massacre was one of the most horrific incidents of violence committed against unarmed civilians during the Vietnam War. A company of American soldiers brutally killed most of the people—women, children and old men—in the village of My Lai on March 16, 1968.]]> 2021-04-19 13:36:32 UTC https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/3fadf883zn6wzdw8/wish/1433025597 ttwi5083 https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/3fadf883zn6wzdw8/wish/1433040692 John Fitzgerald Kennedy, often referred to by his initials JFK, was an American politician who served as the 35th president of the United States from 1961 until his assassination in 1963]]> 2021-04-19 13:38:40 UTC https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/3fadf883zn6wzdw8/wish/1433040692 ttwi5083 https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/3fadf883zn6wzdw8/wish/1433046049 The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba in 1961 by Cuban exiles who opposed Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution.]]> 2021-04-19 13:39:16 UTC https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/3fadf883zn6wzdw8/wish/1433046049 ttwi5083 https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/3fadf883zn6wzdw8/wish/1433100216 The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, known unofficially as the Warren Commission, was established by President Lyndon B. Johnson through Executive Order 11130 on November ]]> 2021-04-19 13:48:46 UTC https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/3fadf883zn6wzdw8/wish/1433100216 ttwi5083 https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/3fadf883zn6wzdw8/wish/1433104823 Medicaid in the United States is a federal and state program that helps with healthcare costs for some people with limited income and resources. Medicaid also offers benefits not normally covered by Medicare, including nursing home care and personal care services]]> 2021-04-19 13:49:34 UTC https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/3fadf883zn6wzdw8/wish/1433104823 ttwi5083 https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/3fadf883zn6wzdw8/wish/1433124945 a way of life and set of attitudes opposed to or at variance with the prevailing social norm.]]> 2021-04-19 13:53:18 UTC https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/3fadf883zn6wzdw8/wish/1433124945 ttwi5083 https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/3fadf883zn6wzdw8/wish/1433134536 The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America or simply the American War, was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.]]> 2021-04-19 13:55:06 UTC https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/3fadf883zn6wzdw8/wish/1433134536 ttwi5083 https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/3fadf883zn6wzdw8/wish/1433138372 Robert Francis Kennedy, also referred to by his initials RFK or by the nickname Bobby, 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.]]> 2021-04-19 13:55:43 UTC https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/3fadf883zn6wzdw8/wish/1433138372 ttwi5083 https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/3fadf883zn6wzdw8/wish/1433143138 William Childs Westmoreland was a United States Army general, most notably commander of United States forces during the Vietnam War from 1964 to 1968. He served as Chief of Staff of the United States Army from 1968 to 1972.]]> 2021-04-19 13:56:34 UTC https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/3fadf883zn6wzdw8/wish/1433143138 ttwi5083 https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/3fadf883zn6wzdw8/wish/1433146574 Students for a Democratic Society was a national student activist organization in the United States during the 1960s, and was one of the principal representations of the New Left. ]]> 2021-04-19 13:57:12 UTC https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/3fadf883zn6wzdw8/wish/1433146574 ttwi5083 https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/3fadf883zn6wzdw8/wish/1433149127 The Partial Test Ban Treaty is the abbreviated name of the 1963 Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapon Tests in the Atmosphere, in Outer Space and Under Water, which prohibited all test detonations of nuclear weapons except for those conducted underground]]> 2021-04-19 13:57:40 UTC https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/3fadf883zn6wzdw8/wish/1433149127 ttwi5083 https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/3fadf883zn6wzdw8/wish/1433152558 Escobedo v. Illinois, 378 U.S. 478, was a United States Supreme Court case holding that criminal suspects have a right to counsel during police interrogations under the Sixth Amendment]]> 2021-04-19 13:58:19 UTC https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/3fadf883zn6wzdw8/wish/1433152558 ttwi5083 https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/3fadf883zn6wzdw8/wish/1433157873 Baker v. Carr, 369 U.S. 186, was a landmark United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that redistricting qualifies as a justiciable question, thus enabling federal courts to hear redistricting cases. ]]> 2021-04-19 13:59:17 UTC https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/3fadf883zn6wzdw8/wish/1433157873 ttwi5083 https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/3fadf883zn6wzdw8/wish/1433161105 The term New Frontier was used by Democratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy in his acceptance speech in the 1960 United States presidential election to the Democratic National Convention at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum as the Democratic slogan to inspire America to support him]]> 2021-04-19 13:59:53 UTC https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/3fadf883zn6wzdw8/wish/1433161105 ttwi5083 https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/3fadf883zn6wzdw8/wish/1433164501 The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. Construction of the wall was commenced by the German Democratic Republic on 13 August 1961. The Wall cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany, including East Berlin]]> 2021-04-19 14:00:28 UTC https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/3fadf883zn6wzdw8/wish/1433164501 ttwi5083 https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/3fadf883zn6wzdw8/wish/1433166828 Lyndon Baines Johnson, often referred to by his initials LBJ, was the 36th president of the United States, in office from 1963 to 1969. He served as the 37th vice president from 1961 to 1963 and assumed the presidency following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy]]> 2021-04-19 14:00:55 UTC https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/3fadf883zn6wzdw8/wish/1433166828 ttwi5083 https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/3fadf883zn6wzdw8/wish/1433169170 a person conscripted for military service.]]> 2021-04-19 14:01:18 UTC https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/3fadf883zn6wzdw8/wish/1433169170 ttwi5083 https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/3fadf883zn6wzdw8/wish/1433172877 government spending, in excess of revenue, of funds raised by borrowing rather than from taxation.]]> 2021-04-19 14:01:59 UTC https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/3fadf883zn6wzdw8/wish/1433172877 ttwi5083 https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/3fadf883zn6wzdw8/wish/1433177195 The Tet Offensive was a coordinated series of North Vietnamese attacks on more than 100 cities and outposts in South Vietnam. The offensive was an attempt to foment rebellion among the South Vietnamese population and encourage the United States to scale back its involvement in the Vietnam War.]]> 2021-04-19 14:02:46 UTC https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/3fadf883zn6wzdw8/wish/1433177195 ttwi5083 https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/3fadf883zn6wzdw8/wish/1433178949 Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz better known internationally as Fidel Castro, was a Cuban revolutionary and politician who served as Prime Minister of Cuba from 1959 to 1976 and President from 1976 to 2008. ]]> 2021-04-19 14:03:07 UTC https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/3fadf883zn6wzdw8/wish/1433178949 ttwi5083 https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/3fadf883zn6wzdw8/wish/1433180916 napalm is an incendiary mixture of a gelling agent and a volatile petrochemical. The name is a portmanteau of two of the constituents of the original thickening and gelling agents: co-precipitated aluminum salts of naphthenic acid and palmitic acid.]]> 2021-04-19 14:03:30 UTC https://padlet.com/ttwi5083/3fadf883zn6wzdw8/wish/1433180916