https://padlet.com/joshsisco09/am45ovfgi8qd Timeline of events in American History en-us 2017-12-01 20:11:49 UTC 2023-02-18 17:21:13 UTC hello@padlet.com joshsisco09 https://padlet.com/joshsisco09/am45ovfgi8qd/wish/212435854 English settlers of the 13 colonies fight for their independence led by George Washington. ]]> 2017-12-01 20:12:26 UTC https://padlet.com/joshsisco09/am45ovfgi8qd/wish/212435854 joshsisco09 https://padlet.com/joshsisco09/am45ovfgi8qd/wish/212437955 The Declaration or Independence is signed by Our Founding Fathers in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1776. Among them are Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, John Adams, and of course John Hancock.]]> 2017-12-01 20:19:35 UTC https://padlet.com/joshsisco09/am45ovfgi8qd/wish/212437955 joshsisco09 https://padlet.com/joshsisco09/am45ovfgi8qd/wish/212438895 Nearly 100 years after the American Revolution, a civil war between the states breaks out. The Confederacy is led by President Jefferson Davis and the Union is led by Abraham Lincoln.]]> 2017-12-01 20:23:02 UTC https://padlet.com/joshsisco09/am45ovfgi8qd/wish/212438895 joshsisco09 https://padlet.com/joshsisco09/am45ovfgi8qd/wish/212440099 The Confederacy is outmanned and outgunned by a margin of 3 to 1 but they have to rely on grit in order to have any chance at defeating the Union. Ultimately they run out of resources and are very low on soldiers. The Confederacy was led by General Robert E. Lee and the Union was led by General Ulysses S. Grant. General Lee surrenders to General Grant under very just terms on a April 9, 1865 at the Appomattox Courthouse in Virginia ending the Civil War.]]> 2017-12-01 20:27:09 UTC https://padlet.com/joshsisco09/am45ovfgi8qd/wish/212440099 joshsisco09 https://padlet.com/joshsisco09/am45ovfgi8qd/wish/212441236 War breaks out in Europe in 1914 with the murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, eventually the US gets involved in 1917 and the war ends in 1918.]]> 2017-12-01 20:31:57 UTC https://padlet.com/joshsisco09/am45ovfgi8qd/wish/212441236 joshsisco09 https://padlet.com/joshsisco09/am45ovfgi8qd/wish/212442825 Another world war breaks out in Europe as Adolf Hitler comes to power in Germany in 1933 and the National Socialist Party comes to power. The war begins in 1939 with the German invasion of Poland, but the US doesn’t get involved until 1944 with D-Day on the beaches of Normandy, France.]]> 2017-12-01 20:38:16 UTC https://padlet.com/joshsisco09/am45ovfgi8qd/wish/212442825 joshsisco09 https://padlet.com/joshsisco09/am45ovfgi8qd/wish/212444590 The United States gets involved in Vietnam and helps South Vietnam fight the Communist Vietcong. Eventually we pull our troops out but 59,000 American lives were lost.]]> 2017-12-01 20:45:20 UTC https://padlet.com/joshsisco09/am45ovfgi8qd/wish/212444590