Events that happened in the Unites States following World War II by Jimin Yoo https://padlet.com/jyoo43/cu6uei886vfxxgjq "History is written by the victors" -Winston Churchill en-us 2022-06-01 19:30:40 UTC 2026-02-26 01:52:02 UTC hello@padlet.com 1945 Creation of the United Nations jyoo43 https://padlet.com/jyoo43/cu6uei886vfxxgjq/wish/2207965582 The United Nations is an international organization which 51 countries committed to maintaining international peace and security. It is proposed to develop friendly relations among nations and promote social progress, better living standards and human rights. ]]> 2022-06-01 19:43:56 UTC https://padlet.com/jyoo43/cu6uei886vfxxgjq/wish/2207965582 1946 March 5-Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech jyoo43 https://padlet.com/jyoo43/cu6uei886vfxxgjq/wish/2209885764 This speech was delivered by former British prime minister Winston Churchill in Fulton, Missouri, on March 5, 1946. It stressed the necessity for the United States and Britain to act as the guardians of peace and stability against the menace of Soviet communism. The title of his speech was “The Sinews of Peace” ]]> 2022-06-03 06:46:01 UTC https://padlet.com/jyoo43/cu6uei886vfxxgjq/wish/2209885764 1948 April 3- Marshall Plan jyoo43 https://padlet.com/jyoo43/cu6uei886vfxxgjq/wish/2209886771 The Marshall Plan was a U.S. program providing aid to Western Europe following the devastation of World War II. It proposed that the United States provide economic assistance to restore the economic infrastructure of postwar Europe. ]]> 2022-06-03 06:47:26 UTC https://padlet.com/jyoo43/cu6uei886vfxxgjq/wish/2209886771 1948 June-Berlin Blockade jyoo43 https://padlet.com/jyoo43/cu6uei886vfxxgjq/wish/2209887969 The Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. It was an attempt by the Soviet Union to limit the ability of the US, Great Britain and France to travel to their sectors of Berlin, which lay within Russian-occupied East Germany. ]]> 2022-06-03 06:49:01 UTC https://padlet.com/jyoo43/cu6uei886vfxxgjq/wish/2209887969 1949 April 4-NATO jyoo43 https://padlet.com/jyoo43/cu6uei886vfxxgjq/wish/2209888638 NATO is a security alliance of 30 countries from North America and Europe. The goal is to safeguard the Allies’ freedom and security by political and military means. ]]> 2022-06-03 06:49:48 UTC https://padlet.com/jyoo43/cu6uei886vfxxgjq/wish/2209888638 1949 October 1-Communist Revolution in China jyoo43 https://padlet.com/jyoo43/cu6uei886vfxxgjq/wish/2209889967 On October 1, 1949, Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong declared the creation of the People’s Republic of China. The combination of increasing imperialist demands, frustration with the foreign Manchu Government embodied by the Qing court, and the desire to see a unified China less parochial in outlook fed a growing nationalism that spurred on revolutionary ideas.]]> 2022-06-03 06:51:19 UTC https://padlet.com/jyoo43/cu6uei886vfxxgjq/wish/2209889967 1950-1954: Senator Joseph McCarthy censured by the Senate jyoo43 https://padlet.com/jyoo43/cu6uei886vfxxgjq/wish/2209890639 Senator Joseph McCarthy carries out a crusade against alleged communists in government and public life; the campaign and its methods become known as McCarthyism. In 1954 McCarthy was formally censured by the Senate.]]> 2022-06-03 06:52:13 UTC https://padlet.com/jyoo43/cu6uei886vfxxgjq/wish/2209890639 1950 June-1953 July: Korean War jyoo43 https://padlet.com/jyoo43/cu6uei886vfxxgjq/wish/2209891955 The Korean War was fought between North Korea and South Korea from 1950 to 1953. 75000 soldiers from the North Korean People’s Army poured across the 38th parallel, the boundary between the Soviet-backed Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to the north and the pro-Western Republic of Korea to the south.]]> 2022-06-03 06:53:33 UTC https://padlet.com/jyoo43/cu6uei886vfxxgjq/wish/2209891955 1954-Brown v. Board of Education jyoo43 https://padlet.com/jyoo43/cu6uei886vfxxgjq/wish/2209892865 In this milestone decision, the Supreme Court ruled that separating children in public schools on the basis of race was unconstitutional. It signaled the end of legalized racial segregation in the schools of the United States, overruling the "separate but equal" principle set forth in the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson case.]]> 2022-06-03 06:54:45 UTC https://padlet.com/jyoo43/cu6uei886vfxxgjq/wish/2209892865 1955 November 1-1975 April 30: Vietnam War jyoo43 https://padlet.com/jyoo43/cu6uei886vfxxgjq/wish/2209894442 The Vietnam War was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. The United States had provided funding, armaments, and training to South Vietnam's government and military since Vietnam's partition into the communist North and the democratic South in 1954. ]]> 2022-06-03 06:56:32 UTC https://padlet.com/jyoo43/cu6uei886vfxxgjq/wish/2209894442 1955-1956: Montgomery bus Boycott jyoo43 https://padlet.com/jyoo43/cu6uei886vfxxgjq/wish/2209895044 The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a civil rights protest during which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating. The boycott took place from December 5, 1955, to December 20, 1956, and is regarded as the first large-scale U.S. demonstration against segregation.]]> 2022-06-03 06:57:17 UTC https://padlet.com/jyoo43/cu6uei886vfxxgjq/wish/2209895044 1956 October 29-Suez Crisis jyoo43 https://padlet.com/jyoo43/cu6uei886vfxxgjq/wish/2209895982 On October 29, 1956, 10 Israeli brigades invaded Egypt and advanced toward the canal, routing Egyptian forces. Britain and France, following their plan, demanded that Israeli and Egyptian troops withdraw from the canal, and they announced that they would intervene to enforce a cease-fire ordered by the United Nations.]]> 2022-06-03 06:58:20 UTC https://padlet.com/jyoo43/cu6uei886vfxxgjq/wish/2209895982 1957 January 10-11: Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) jyoo43 https://padlet.com/jyoo43/cu6uei886vfxxgjq/wish/2209896694 The Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) is a civil rights organization founded in 1957, as an offshoot of the Montgomery Improvement Association (MIA), which successfully staged a 381-day boycott of Montgomery Alabama's segregated bus system. It was established to coordinate the action  of local protest groups throughout the South. 


]]> 2022-06-03 06:59:10 UTC https://padlet.com/jyoo43/cu6uei886vfxxgjq/wish/2209896694 1957-Bishop Montgomery High School founded jyoo43 https://padlet.com/jyoo43/cu6uei886vfxxgjq/wish/2209897852 Bishop Montgomery high school was founded in 1957, and staffed by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Carondelet, Conventual Francisacnas, and lay faculty. It is a Catholic high school serving twenty-five parishes in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Los Angeles. 


]]> 2022-06-03 07:00:33 UTC https://padlet.com/jyoo43/cu6uei886vfxxgjq/wish/2209897852 1957 October 4-Sputnik jyoo43 https://padlet.com/jyoo43/cu6uei886vfxxgjq/wish/2209898564 Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. The successful launch shocked the world, giving the former Soviet Union the distinction of putting the first human-made object into space. ]]> 2022-06-03 07:01:29 UTC https://padlet.com/jyoo43/cu6uei886vfxxgjq/wish/2209898564 1961 April 17-Bay of Pigs jyoo43 https://padlet.com/jyoo43/cu6uei886vfxxgjq/wish/2209899284 On April 17, 1961, 1,400 Cuban exiles launched what became a botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba. In 1959, Fidel Castro came to power in an armed revolt that overthrew Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista.


]]> 2022-06-03 07:02:14 UTC https://padlet.com/jyoo43/cu6uei886vfxxgjq/wish/2209899284 1961 May 4-Freedom Riders jyoo43 https://padlet.com/jyoo43/cu6uei886vfxxgjq/wish/2209899831 In 1961, student activists from the Congress of Racial Equality launched the Freedom Rides to challenge segregation on interstate buses and bus terminals. The Freedom Rides of 1961 was a revolutionary movement where black and white people refused to sit in their designated areas of buses to protest segregation.]]> 2022-06-03 07:02:53 UTC https://padlet.com/jyoo43/cu6uei886vfxxgjq/wish/2209899831 1961 August 13-Berlin Wall built jyoo43 https://padlet.com/jyoo43/cu6uei886vfxxgjq/wish/2209900423 On August 13, 1961, the Communist government of the German Democratic Republic began to build a barbed wire and concrete “Antifaschistischer Schutzwall,” or “antifascist bulwark,” between East and West Berlin. The official purpose of this Berlin Wall was to keep so-called Western “fascists” from entering East Germany and undermining the socialist state, but it primarily served the objective of stemming mass defections from East to West.]]> 2022-06-03 07:03:34 UTC https://padlet.com/jyoo43/cu6uei886vfxxgjq/wish/2209900423 1962 March-Creaion of the United Farm Workers (UFW) jyoo43 https://padlet.com/jyoo43/cu6uei886vfxxgjq/wish/2209900864 United Farm Workers (UFW), in full United Farm Workers of America, formerly National Farm Workers Association, U.S. labour union founded in 1962 as the National Farm Workers Association by the labour leaders and activists Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta. It demanded higher pay and better working conditions from local grape growers. ]]> 2022-06-03 07:04:06 UTC https://padlet.com/jyoo43/cu6uei886vfxxgjq/wish/2209900864 1962 October 16-Cuban Missile Crisis jyoo43 https://padlet.com/jyoo43/cu6uei886vfxxgjq/wish/2209901229 On October 16, 1962, President John F. Kennedy was shown photographs of Soviet nuclear missile installations under construction in Cuba. The installation of medium-range missiles just 90 miles off the coast of Florida would put the Eastern United States at risk of a nuclear attack that could come on very short notice.


]]> 2022-06-03 07:04:35 UTC https://padlet.com/jyoo43/cu6uei886vfxxgjq/wish/2209901229 1963 February 19-Publication of the Feminine Mystique jyoo43 https://padlet.com/jyoo43/cu6uei886vfxxgjq/wish/2209901815 The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan, published on Feb. 19, 1963, is considered one of the most influential non-fiction books of the 20th century, and was a major inspiration for the modern feminist movement in the United States. Immediately after its publishing, The Feminine Mystique was the recipient of much backlash against feminism.]]> 2022-06-03 07:05:13 UTC https://padlet.com/jyoo43/cu6uei886vfxxgjq/wish/2209901815 1963 August 28-March on Washington jyoo43 https://padlet.com/jyoo43/cu6uei886vfxxgjq/wish/2209902326 The March on Washington was a massive protest march that occurred in August 1963, when some 250,000 people gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. It was to demand an end to segregation, fair wages and economic justice, voting rights, education, and long overdue civil rights projections. ]]> 2022-06-03 07:05:51 UTC https://padlet.com/jyoo43/cu6uei886vfxxgjq/wish/2209902326 1963 November 22-Assassination of JFK jyoo43 https://padlet.com/jyoo43/cu6uei886vfxxgjq/wish/2209902911 At 12:30 PM on November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated as he rode in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, Texas. He was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald.]]> 2022-06-03 07:06:37 UTC https://padlet.com/jyoo43/cu6uei886vfxxgjq/wish/2209902911 1964-Civil Rights Act jyoo43 https://padlet.com/jyoo43/cu6uei886vfxxgjq/wish/2209903365 The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. Provisions of this civil rights act forbade discrimination on the basis of sex, as well as, race in hiring, promoting, and firing.]]> 2022-06-03 07:07:11 UTC https://padlet.com/jyoo43/cu6uei886vfxxgjq/wish/2209903365 1965-Voting Rights Acts jyoo43 https://padlet.com/jyoo43/cu6uei886vfxxgjq/wish/2209903999 The Voting Rights Act of 1965 is a landmark piece of federal legislation in the United States that prohibits racial discrimination in voting. It was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson.]]> 2022-06-03 07:07:59 UTC https://padlet.com/jyoo43/cu6uei886vfxxgjq/wish/2209903999 1968-Tet Offensive jyoo43 https://padlet.com/jyoo43/cu6uei886vfxxgjq/wish/2209905882 The Tet Offensive changed public perception of the Vietnam War. Although a costly loss for communist forces from North Vietnam and the Viet Cong, the series of attacks led South Vietnamese and United States citizens to question the outcome of the war. ]]> 2022-06-03 07:10:00 UTC https://padlet.com/jyoo43/cu6uei886vfxxgjq/wish/2209905882 1968 April 4-Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. jyoo43 https://padlet.com/jyoo43/cu6uei886vfxxgjq/wish/2209907599 Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Baptist minister and activist who became the most visible spokesperson and leader in the civil rights movement. 
His assassination led to an outpouring of anger among Black Americans, as well as a period of national mourning that helped speed the way for an equal housing bill that would be the last significant legislative achievement of the civil rights era.
]]> 2022-06-03 07:11:58 UTC https://padlet.com/jyoo43/cu6uei886vfxxgjq/wish/2209907599 1969-Stonewall Riots jyoo43 https://padlet.com/jyoo43/cu6uei886vfxxgjq/wish/2209907975 The Stonewall Riots, also called the Stonewall Uprising, began in the early hours of June 28, 1969 when New York City police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay club located in Greenwich Village in New York City. The raid sparked a riot among bar patrons and neighborhood residents as police roughly hauled employees and patrons out of the bar, leading to six days of protests and violent clashes with law enforcement outside the bar on Christopher Street, in neighboring streets and in nearby Christopher Park.]]> 2022-06-03 07:12:26 UTC https://padlet.com/jyoo43/cu6uei886vfxxgjq/wish/2209907975 1969-Neil Armstrong became first person to walk on the moon jyoo43 https://padlet.com/jyoo43/cu6uei886vfxxgjq/wish/2209908652 At 02:56 GMT on 21 July 1969, American astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the Moon. He stepped out of the Apollo 11 lunar module and onto the Moon's surface, in an area called the 'Sea of Tranquility.’]]> 2022-06-03 07:13:11 UTC https://padlet.com/jyoo43/cu6uei886vfxxgjq/wish/2209908652 1969 November 20-"Red Power" occupation of Alcatraz jyoo43 https://padlet.com/jyoo43/cu6uei886vfxxgjq/wish/2209909488 The Occupation of Alcatraz was a 19-month long protest when 89 Native Americans and their supporters occupied Alcatraz Island. The protest was led by Richard Oakes, LaNada Means, and others, while John Trudell served as spokesman.]]> 2022-06-03 07:14:04 UTC https://padlet.com/jyoo43/cu6uei886vfxxgjq/wish/2209909488 1972-1974: Watergate jyoo43 https://padlet.com/jyoo43/cu6uei886vfxxgjq/wish/2209910657 The scandal stemmed from the Nixon administration's continual attempts to cover up its involvement in the June 17, 1972, break-in of the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Washington, D.C., Watergate Office Building. Evidence linked the break-in to President Richard Nixon's re-election campaign.]]> 2022-06-03 07:15:04 UTC https://padlet.com/jyoo43/cu6uei886vfxxgjq/wish/2209910657 1972-Title IX of the Educational Amendments passed jyoo43 https://padlet.com/jyoo43/cu6uei886vfxxgjq/wish/2209911584 Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (Title IX) prohibits sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity) discrimination in any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance. It offers a wide range of protections from athletics and admission to housing and sexual harassment. ]]> 2022-06-03 07:16:05 UTC https://padlet.com/jyoo43/cu6uei886vfxxgjq/wish/2209911584 1973-Roe v. Wade jyoo43 https://padlet.com/jyoo43/cu6uei886vfxxgjq/wish/2209912285 Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113, was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that the Constitution of the United States protects a pregnant woman's liberty to choose to have an abortion without excessive government restriction.]]> 2022-06-03 07:16:56 UTC https://padlet.com/jyoo43/cu6uei886vfxxgjq/wish/2209912285 1974 August 9-Resignation of Richard Nixon jyoo43 https://padlet.com/jyoo43/cu6uei886vfxxgjq/wish/2209912756 President Richard Nixon made an address to the American public from the Oval Office on August 8, 1974, to announce his resignation from the presidency due to the Watergate scandal. President Nixon prepares to deliver the speech announcing his resignation. Washington, D.C. He resigned because of the Watergate Scandal.]]> 2022-06-03 07:17:28 UTC https://padlet.com/jyoo43/cu6uei886vfxxgjq/wish/2209912756 1980-Republication Party Ronald Reagan was elected president jyoo43 https://padlet.com/jyoo43/cu6uei886vfxxgjq/wish/2209913659 In November 1979, Reagan announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination in the 1980 presidential election. He won the nomination and the election, defeating incumbent Democratic president Jimmy Carter.



]]> 2022-06-03 07:18:18 UTC https://padlet.com/jyoo43/cu6uei886vfxxgjq/wish/2209913659 1992-Democratic Party candidate Bill Clinton was elected president jyoo43 https://padlet.com/jyoo43/cu6uei886vfxxgjq/wish/2209914820 The 1992 United States presidential election was the 52nd quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 3, 1992. Democratic Governor Bill Clinton of Arkansas defeated incumbent Republican President George H. W. Bush, independent businessman Ross Perot of Texas, and a number of minor candidates.]]> 2022-06-03 07:19:29 UTC https://padlet.com/jyoo43/cu6uei886vfxxgjq/wish/2209914820 2001 September 11-Twin Towers attack in New York by al-Qaeda jyoo43 https://padlet.com/jyoo43/cu6uei886vfxxgjq/wish/2209915381 On September 11, 2001, 19 militants associated with the Islamic extremist group al Qaeda hijacked four airplanes and carried out suicide attacks against targets in the United States. Two of the planes were flown into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, a third plane hit the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, just outside Washington, D.C., and the fourth plane crashed in a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Almost 3,000 people were killed during the 9/11 terrorist attacks. ]]> 2022-06-03 07:20:14 UTC https://padlet.com/jyoo43/cu6uei886vfxxgjq/wish/2209915381 2001-US bombing air strikes on Afghanistan jyoo43 https://padlet.com/jyoo43/cu6uei886vfxxgjq/wish/2209916237 On October 7, 2001, a U.S.-led coalition begins attacks on Taliban-controlled Afghanistan with an intense bombing campaign by American and British forces. The conflict in Afghanistan would span two decades and become the longest war in U.S. history.]]> 2022-06-03 07:21:16 UTC https://padlet.com/jyoo43/cu6uei886vfxxgjq/wish/2209916237 2002-President Bush signs into law a bill creating a Department of Homeland Security jyoo43 https://padlet.com/jyoo43/cu6uei886vfxxgjq/wish/2209916611 On this day in 2002, President George W. Bush signed into law the Homeland Security Act, creating the Department of Homeland Security. Charged with the task of coordinating and unifying national homeland security efforts, the agency opened its doors on March 1, 2003 as a stand-alone, Cabinet-level department.]]> 2022-06-03 07:21:44 UTC https://padlet.com/jyoo43/cu6uei886vfxxgjq/wish/2209916611 2003-Missile attacks on Iraq marks the beginning of the Iraq War jyoo43 https://padlet.com/jyoo43/cu6uei886vfxxgjq/wish/2209917005 In March 2003, U.S. forces invaded Iraq vowing to destroy Iraqi weapons of mass destruction (WMD) and end the dictatorial rule of Saddam Hussein. When WMD intelligence proved illusory and a violent insurgency arose, the war lost public support. Saddam was captured, tried, and hanged and democratic elections were held.]]> 2022-06-03 07:22:08 UTC https://padlet.com/jyoo43/cu6uei886vfxxgjq/wish/2209917005