https://padlet.com/lowerye1/bczt19onabn3 en-us 2017-01-05 01:48:17 UTC 2017-01-23 14:43:16 UTC hello@padlet.com lowerye1 https://padlet.com/lowerye1/bczt19onabn3/wish/145744697 The Tet offensive was on the Lunar Holiday. It happened in January of 1968.  It had the North Vietnamese, along with communist Viet Cong working together as comrades. Together they made an attack on many important areas in South Vietnam. It reduced the amount of support from the U.S. public in the war. At the end of the battle both sides were highly impacted, and had thought they won it. The U.S. learned that it would be harder than they thought to win, or bring Vietnam back together. ]]> 2017-01-06 17:35:35 UTC https://padlet.com/lowerye1/bczt19onabn3/wish/145744697 lowerye1 https://padlet.com/lowerye1/bczt19onabn3/wish/145744786 The Gulf of Tonkin incident or the U.S.S. Maddox incident was when the U.S. fired warning shots at Northern Vietnamese submarines. It happened in disputed waters. N.V. fired back at us. There was a new ship with the U.S. called the U.S.S. Maddox. We had thought that N.V. fired back at us, so President L.B.J. was authorized to order bombing runs. We eventually realized that there was not a firing back towards us after we had dropped bombs on them.  ]]> 2017-01-06 17:35:53 UTC https://padlet.com/lowerye1/bczt19onabn3/wish/145744786 lowerye1 https://padlet.com/lowerye1/bczt19onabn3/wish/145744860 This battle happened in 1954. It was France fighting against Indochina. Indochina was trying to gain independence from France by having Ho chi Minh go to France and communicate with them, but they refused. There was a short fight in Haiphong. France's Navy came and killed around 6,000 civilians. Soon after that happened the Vietminh fought back by attacking the Frenchmen in their area. France started realizing that if they wanted to beat such a gorilla like warfare it would be very challenging, so they decided to take different ideas. They ended up giving Them there independence.]]> 2017-01-06 17:36:05 UTC https://padlet.com/lowerye1/bczt19onabn3/wish/145744860 lowerye1 https://padlet.com/lowerye1/bczt19onabn3/wish/145799530 Throughout the war there were over 50,000 U.S. soldiers, plus thousands of others that were wounded in combat. There were also over 700,000 soldiers who had gotten sociological issues from the traumatic scenes they saw. We had tens of thousands of wounded soldiers throughout these events.]]> 2017-01-07 02:15:26 UTC https://padlet.com/lowerye1/bczt19onabn3/wish/145799530 lowerye1 https://padlet.com/lowerye1/bczt19onabn3/wish/145799689 This was a U.S. attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro. It was orchestrated by the C.I.A. in 1961. We had tried to use Cuban exiles that had fled the country and were past soldiers. It did not work out, and was a big embarrassing failure for the U.S.. This showed how powerful Cuba still was at the time, with countries like the Soviet Union backing them up.]]> 2017-01-07 02:31:03 UTC https://padlet.com/lowerye1/bczt19onabn3/wish/145799689 lowerye1 https://padlet.com/lowerye1/bczt19onabn3/wish/145799784 On November 10th, 1958 the Soviet Premier Nikita khrushchev had made an order that was part of a speech that demanded France, the U.K., and the U.S. to have all of our troops pulled out of West Berlin. Earlier we were given these sections of Germany to control. The S.U. was in charge of East Berlin, while the other countries were in charge of sections in Western Berlin. It was a big controversy that started putting parts of the world in danger.]]> 2017-01-07 02:41:18 UTC https://padlet.com/lowerye1/bczt19onabn3/wish/145799784 lowerye1 https://padlet.com/lowerye1/bczt19onabn3/wish/145800050 A New York music festival in the year 1969 full of youth age hippies. It was a big event for the counterculture at the time. It was held at a small rural village. There were around 400,000 different people at this festival. Overall it was a big influence on the U.S. and the music plus the rebel choices in the teenagers and young adults for the years to come. ]]> 2017-01-07 03:07:30 UTC https://padlet.com/lowerye1/bczt19onabn3/wish/145800050 lowerye1 https://padlet.com/lowerye1/bczt19onabn3/wish/145800280 On November 22, 1963 at 12:30 p.m. the president at the time was assassinated. He was shot twice in the upper body. Lee Harvey Oswald  shot him from the sixth story of a Texas school book depository while J.F.K. was in a convertible during a motorcade. The killer Oswald ended up being killed before he was put in prison. He was shot by Jack Ruby. This really impacted America at the time, and left a big mark along with it.]]> 2017-01-07 03:30:14 UTC https://padlet.com/lowerye1/bczt19onabn3/wish/145800280