https://padlet.com/0528642/c94cq4pu4mf6jtb5 Made with a creative frenzy en-us 2021-04-20 17:36:50 UTC 2021-04-22 15:42:57 UTC hello@padlet.com 0528642 https://padlet.com/0528642/c94cq4pu4mf6jtb5/wish/1439198723 The U.S. entered World War l because Germany embarked on a deadly gamble. Germany sank many American merchant ships around the British Isles which prompted the American entry into the war.]]> 2021-04-20 17:46:46 UTC https://padlet.com/0528642/c94cq4pu4mf6jtb5/wish/1439198723 0528642 https://padlet.com/0528642/c94cq4pu4mf6jtb5/wish/1439274502 Following the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor, the United States declared war on Japan. Three days later, after Germany and Italy declared war on it, the United States became fully engaged in the Second World War.]]> 2021-04-20 18:01:07 UTC https://padlet.com/0528642/c94cq4pu4mf6jtb5/wish/1439274502 0528642 https://padlet.com/0528642/c94cq4pu4mf6jtb5/wish/1439310884 America wanted not just to contain communism - they also wanted to prevent the domino effect. Truman was worried that if Korea fell, the next country to fall would be Japan, which was very important for American trade.]]> 2021-04-20 18:08:13 UTC https://padlet.com/0528642/c94cq4pu4mf6jtb5/wish/1439310884 0528642 https://padlet.com/0528642/c94cq4pu4mf6jtb5/wish/1439336178 The plan anticipated that the Cuban people and elements of the Cuban military would support the invasion. The ultimate goal was the overthrow of Castro and the establishment of a non-communist government friendly to the United States.]]> 2021-04-20 18:13:06 UTC https://padlet.com/0528642/c94cq4pu4mf6jtb5/wish/1439336178 0528642 https://padlet.com/0528642/c94cq4pu4mf6jtb5/wish/1439358135 The US embargo against Cuba began February 7, 1962. In 1962, the American government was worried that the USSR would attack America from Cuba, because Cuba is near enough that the missiles could reach almost any city in America. Cuba was seen by the US as a communist country, like the Soviet Union.

]]> 2021-04-20 18:17:29 UTC https://padlet.com/0528642/c94cq4pu4mf6jtb5/wish/1439358135 0528642 https://padlet.com/0528642/c94cq4pu4mf6jtb5/wish/1439414803 This had happened in Eastern Europe after 1945. China had become communist in 1949 and communists were in control of North Vietnam. The USA was afraid that communism would spread to South Vietnam and then the rest of Asia. It decided to send money, supplies and military advisers to help the South Vietnamese Government.]]> 2021-04-20 18:28:59 UTC https://padlet.com/0528642/c94cq4pu4mf6jtb5/wish/1439414803 0528642 https://padlet.com/0528642/c94cq4pu4mf6jtb5/wish/1439426389 The Iran hostage crisis was a diplomatic standoff between the United States and Iran. ... After Shah Pahlavi was overthrown, he was admitted to the U.S. for cancer treatment. Iran demanded his return in order to stand trial for crimes that he was accused of committing during his reign.]]> 2021-04-20 18:31:22 UTC https://padlet.com/0528642/c94cq4pu4mf6jtb5/wish/1439426389 0528642 https://padlet.com/0528642/c94cq4pu4mf6jtb5/wish/1439442454 Iraqi president Saddam Hussein ordered the invasion and occupation of neighboring Kuwait in early August 1990. Alarmed by these actions, fellow Arab powers such as Saudi Arabia and Egypt called on the United States and other Western nations to intervene.]]> 2021-04-20 18:34:44 UTC https://padlet.com/0528642/c94cq4pu4mf6jtb5/wish/1439442454 0528642 https://padlet.com/0528642/c94cq4pu4mf6jtb5/wish/1439461593 The Bush administration based its rationale for the Iraq War on the claim that Iraq had a weapons of mass destruction (WMD) program, and that Iraq posed a threat to the United States and its allies. Some U.S. officials falsely accused Saddam of harboring and supporting al-Qaeda.]]> 2021-04-20 18:38:45 UTC https://padlet.com/0528642/c94cq4pu4mf6jtb5/wish/1439461593