https://padlet.com/c23larive_h/bi9dthy0ys8v 1945-1990 By:Heston Larive en-us 2018-05-15 15:43:18 UTC 2018-05-18 16:04:04 UTC hello@padlet.com c23larive_h https://padlet.com/c23larive_h/bi9dthy0ys8v/wish/260904185 The Cold War was a conflict between the U.S. and the USSR. Even though they didn't fight each other directly, they had strong feelings of hate towards one another. The U.S. wanted to contain communism and the USSR wanted the U.S. to lessen their influence in Europe.

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]]> 2018-05-16 15:53:05 UTC https://padlet.com/c23larive_h/bi9dthy0ys8v/wish/261271574 c23larive_h https://padlet.com/c23larive_h/bi9dthy0ys8v/wish/261275628 The U.S. didn't want North Korea, a communist country, to invade and take over South Korea. The U.S. sided with South Korea because we wanted to contain communism. The U.S. had a total of 23,300 casualties.

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2. On October 14th 1962, an American plane spotted Soviet ballistic missile installations in Cuba.
3. The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed military invasion of Cuba. It was led by the Central Intelligence Agency or the CIA.
4+5. The U.S. Navy blockaded Cuba to keeps the Soviets from transporting any more missiles to Cuba. When Soviet ships arrived at the blockade, they stopped short upon realizing the U.S. Navy had blockaded it.
6. The Soviets would remove their missiles from Cuba, but only if the U.S. removed theirs from Turkey.

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2. In 1964, torpedo boats attacked two U.S. destroyers. This led to the beginning of Operation Rolling Thunder.
3. From 1965-1968, Operation Rolling Thunder was an American bombing campaign in Vietnam.
4. In 1968, the Tet Offensive was a series of violent attacks throughout South Vietnam. 
5+6. The last U.S. troops to be taken out of Vietnam was in 1973. South Vietnam fell to North Vietnam in 1975.

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2. In 1989, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Romania also became non-communist countries.
3. The Berlin Wall fell in November of 1989.
4. The Soviet Union finally dissolved in 1991.

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2. McCarthyism was a campaign against communists that was held in 1950.
3. Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee in 1968.
4. Richard Nixon resigned in 1973. This is because the Watergate Scandal escalated.
5. The Iran Hostage Crisis took place from 1979 to 1981. During this time period, 52 American diplomats and citizens were being held hostage.

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]]> 2018-05-18 15:16:47 UTC https://padlet.com/c23larive_h/bi9dthy0ys8v/wish/261956553 c23larive_h https://padlet.com/c23larive_h/bi9dthy0ys8v/wish/261960558 The first video game was a simple tennis game called pong. It later came out for the Atari gaming system, but in a different format.]]> 2018-05-18 15:26:41 UTC https://padlet.com/c23larive_h/bi9dthy0ys8v/wish/261960558 c23larive_h https://padlet.com/c23larive_h/bi9dthy0ys8v/wish/261961706 The Willy Jeep from WWII is manufactured for the public to use. They were manufactured and sold mostly from 1947-1965.

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