https://padlet.com/AJGUNN/9c21anodtbl0g4qz 20 significant events en-us 2021-04-19 14:29:58 UTC 2025-10-10 18:12:38 UTC hello@padlet.com AJGUNN https://padlet.com/AJGUNN/9c21anodtbl0g4qz/wish/1433342941 On December 6th, 1773 was one of the most major political protest. The first defiance act to British rule over colonist. Over 342 barrels of tea was throw into the water. Today that tea would be worth over 1 million dollars. ]]> 2021-04-19 14:32:53 UTC https://padlet.com/AJGUNN/9c21anodtbl0g4qz/wish/1433342941 AJGUNN https://padlet.com/AJGUNN/9c21anodtbl0g4qz/wish/1433380503 In 1803,828,000 square miles of land purchased from Napoleon, leader of France, by Thomas Jefferson in 1803. Jefferson paid $15 million for the land. This purchase of land caused a dilemma for Jefferson. His purchase allowed America to nearly double in size.]]> 2021-04-19 14:40:00 UTC https://padlet.com/AJGUNN/9c21anodtbl0g4qz/wish/1433380503 AJGUNN https://padlet.com/AJGUNN/9c21anodtbl0g4qz/wish/1433398458 A French-British dispute that got the U.S. involved with the French while the Native Americans joined the British side. Americans forces were not prepared at all for war but managed to fight most of the battles to a stalemate. Nationalism grew throughout America and the Federalist party came to an end]]> 2021-04-19 14:43:23 UTC https://padlet.com/AJGUNN/9c21anodtbl0g4qz/wish/1433398458 AJGUNN https://padlet.com/AJGUNN/9c21anodtbl0g4qz/wish/1433414214 During 1835 throughout 1838 thousands of Cherokees and other Indians were forcefully marched to Oklahoma territory under the supervision of the U.S. army. Thousands died from sickness and starvation along the way. ]]> 2021-04-19 14:46:27 UTC https://padlet.com/AJGUNN/9c21anodtbl0g4qz/wish/1433414214 AJGUNN https://padlet.com/AJGUNN/9c21anodtbl0g4qz/wish/1433424468 In 1846 both the Mexicans and the Americans were in a dispute over the boundaries of Texas and also control of California. The war was ended by the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo in 1848 with America winning the titles to both Texas and California.]]> 2021-04-19 14:48:26 UTC https://padlet.com/AJGUNN/9c21anodtbl0g4qz/wish/1433424468 AJGUNN https://padlet.com/AJGUNN/9c21anodtbl0g4qz/wish/1433447573 In the early 1900's America went through a series of improvements in American virtues. Muckraking exposed corruption in government which led to the purification of political figures. In 1906 lots of safety rules were put into place of factory workers, women, and public buildings. To this day these improvements still positively affect America.]]> 2021-04-19 14:52:49 UTC https://padlet.com/AJGUNN/9c21anodtbl0g4qz/wish/1433447573 AJGUNN https://padlet.com/AJGUNN/9c21anodtbl0g4qz/wish/1433475107 In 1914 tensions in the Balkan region increased. This was known as the Balkan powder keg and in the same year, Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated.]]> 2021-04-19 14:58:01 UTC https://padlet.com/AJGUNN/9c21anodtbl0g4qz/wish/1433475107 AJGUNN https://padlet.com/AJGUNN/9c21anodtbl0g4qz/wish/1433486932 On 1914 the first world war would began and last for four whole years. The day of the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria. Cause tension throughout all of the countries.]]> 2021-04-19 15:00:14 UTC https://padlet.com/AJGUNN/9c21anodtbl0g4qz/wish/1433486932 AJGUNN https://padlet.com/AJGUNN/9c21anodtbl0g4qz/wish/1433503329 In 1917 the united states entered WWI to join the allied powers. This ended the view of American isolationism. U-boat attacks on innocent American ships caused the US to join the war, the Zimmermann note, and the sinking of the Lusitania also promoted US war involvement. America did not fight directly in the war but supplied the allied powers and acted as a mediator when the war was over. ]]> 2021-04-19 15:03:15 UTC https://padlet.com/AJGUNN/9c21anodtbl0g4qz/wish/1433503329 AJGUNN https://padlet.com/AJGUNN/9c21anodtbl0g4qz/wish/1433513815 in 1917 During America's presence in the war, production in the US thrived. The allied powers lacked supplies compared to the central powers and America was the only hope for an allie victory.]]> 2021-04-19 15:05:10 UTC https://padlet.com/AJGUNN/9c21anodtbl0g4qz/wish/1433513815 AJGUNN https://padlet.com/AJGUNN/9c21anodtbl0g4qz/wish/1433525166 In 1920s After WWI and the rise of communist Hitler and Bolshevik Russia, America was scared that communism would be adopted by other countries. The red scare left America paranoid that communism would become the majority if it were to be established in Europe.]]> 2021-04-19 15:07:14 UTC https://padlet.com/AJGUNN/9c21anodtbl0g4qz/wish/1433525166 AJGUNN https://padlet.com/AJGUNN/9c21anodtbl0g4qz/wish/1433537455 In the 1930s the Great Depression struck America. Major industries and the stock market crashed crippling America's economy and almost every individual. Wealthy people resorted to selling apples on the street and husbands deserted their families in order to find work. ]]> 2021-04-19 15:09:22 UTC https://padlet.com/AJGUNN/9c21anodtbl0g4qz/wish/1433537455 AJGUNN https://padlet.com/AJGUNN/9c21anodtbl0g4qz/wish/1433553528 Hitler’s invasion of Poland in September 1939 drove Great Britain and France to declare war on Germany, marking the beginning of World War II.]]> 2021-04-19 15:12:24 UTC https://padlet.com/AJGUNN/9c21anodtbl0g4qz/wish/1433553528 AJGUNN https://padlet.com/AJGUNN/9c21anodtbl0g4qz/wish/1433561093 Soviet troops liberate the Polish capital from German occupation. Warsaw was a battleground since the opening day of fighting in the European theater. ... Deprived of electricity, water, and food, and with 25 percent of the city's homes destroyed, Warsaw surrendered to the Germans on September 27.]]> 2021-04-19 15:13:47 UTC https://padlet.com/AJGUNN/9c21anodtbl0g4qz/wish/1433561093 AJGUNN https://padlet.com/AJGUNN/9c21anodtbl0g4qz/wish/1433583251 On December 9th,1939 British cruisers defeat a German pocket battleship at the Battle of the River Plate, the first major naval engagement of World War II. Major turning point gives UK confidence.]]> 2021-04-19 15:17:35 UTC https://padlet.com/AJGUNN/9c21anodtbl0g4qz/wish/1433583251 AJGUNN https://padlet.com/AJGUNN/9c21anodtbl0g4qz/wish/1433597876 April 8th 1940 Germany invades Norway, ending a 6-month period of limited land operations called the “Phony War.”]]> 2021-04-19 15:20:16 UTC https://padlet.com/AJGUNN/9c21anodtbl0g4qz/wish/1433597876 AJGUNN https://padlet.com/AJGUNN/9c21anodtbl0g4qz/wish/1433606866 On May 10 1940 Winston Churchill replaces Neville Chamberlain as British Prime Minister. The same day, Germany invades Belgium.]]> 2021-04-19 15:22:00 UTC https://padlet.com/AJGUNN/9c21anodtbl0g4qz/wish/1433606866 AJGUNN https://padlet.com/AJGUNN/9c21anodtbl0g4qz/wish/1433616419 the Miracle of Dunkirk, was the evacuation of Allied soldiers during World War II from the beaches and harbor of Dunkirk, in the north of France, between 26 May and 4 June 1940.]]> 2021-04-19 15:23:41 UTC https://padlet.com/AJGUNN/9c21anodtbl0g4qz/wish/1433616419 AJGUNN https://padlet.com/AJGUNN/9c21anodtbl0g4qz/wish/1433627427 On December 1941 the Japanese led an attack on pearl harbor which was an America supply station for battleships. Japan thought this would cripple America leaving them in no position to join WWII against Germany, Japan, and Italy. This attack on pearl harbor did hurt America but America was not out.

]]> 2021-04-19 15:25:40 UTC https://padlet.com/AJGUNN/9c21anodtbl0g4qz/wish/1433627427 AJGUNN https://padlet.com/AJGUNN/9c21anodtbl0g4qz/wish/1433635411 On August 6, 1945, an American B-29 bomber dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. ... Three days later, a second B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki, killing an estimated 40,000 people.]]> 2021-04-19 15:27:01 UTC https://padlet.com/AJGUNN/9c21anodtbl0g4qz/wish/1433635411