https://padlet.com/scabrera52/dh11q4hs3bjly8s5 "A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future" -Robert A Heinlein en-us 2022-06-01 18:03:29 UTC 2022-06-03 17:45:46 UTC hello@padlet.com scabrera52 https://padlet.com/scabrera52/dh11q4hs3bjly8s5/wish/2208006210 The United Nations is an intergovernmental organization. Its purpose is to maintain international peace and security. It also helps bring harmony into our nation. ]]> 2022-06-01 20:36:33 UTC https://padlet.com/scabrera52/dh11q4hs3bjly8s5/wish/2208006210 scabrera52 https://padlet.com/scabrera52/dh11q4hs3bjly8s5/wish/2208006306 This famous speech was given by former British prime minister Winston Churchill. The purpose of the speech was to enact on the United States and Britain to have peace, lowering an "iron curtain".]]> 2022-06-01 20:36:43 UTC https://padlet.com/scabrera52/dh11q4hs3bjly8s5/wish/2208006306 scabrera52 https://padlet.com/scabrera52/dh11q4hs3bjly8s5/wish/2208006439 The Marshall Plan is also known as the European Recovery Program. It provided aid to Western Europe after the destruction that World War II brought.]]> 2022-06-01 20:36:54 UTC https://padlet.com/scabrera52/dh11q4hs3bjly8s5/wish/2208006439 scabrera52 https://padlet.com/scabrera52/dh11q4hs3bjly8s5/wish/2208006568 It was an attempt by the Soviet Union to limit the U.S' ability to access railways, roads, canals, and more. It was a very crucial international crisis of the Cold War.]]> 2022-06-01 20:37:05 UTC https://padlet.com/scabrera52/dh11q4hs3bjly8s5/wish/2208006568 scabrera52 https://padlet.com/scabrera52/dh11q4hs3bjly8s5/wish/2208006683 The goal of this revolution was to preserve Chinese communism by purging remnants of capitalist and traditional elements in Chinese societies. It was caused by the Chinese Civil War.]]> 2022-06-01 20:37:14 UTC https://padlet.com/scabrera52/dh11q4hs3bjly8s5/wish/2208006683 scabrera52 https://padlet.com/scabrera52/dh11q4hs3bjly8s5/wish/2208006791 NATO which is also known as the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was an intergovernmental military alliance between thirty states. Its purpose was to guarantee the freedom and security of its members.]]> 2022-06-01 20:37:23 UTC https://padlet.com/scabrera52/dh11q4hs3bjly8s5/wish/2208006791 scabrera52 https://padlet.com/scabrera52/dh11q4hs3bjly8s5/wish/2208006903 This war was fought between North and South Korea. It began when the North invaded the South. The Korean peninsula was divided back then and still is now.]]> 2022-06-01 20:37:32 UTC https://padlet.com/scabrera52/dh11q4hs3bjly8s5/wish/2208006903 scabrera52 https://padlet.com/scabrera52/dh11q4hs3bjly8s5/wish/2208006974 This was a landmark decision of the US supreme court. This court ruled that state laws establishing racial segregation in schools are unconstitutional. It brought equality amongst schools all over the US.]]> 2022-06-01 20:37:40 UTC https://padlet.com/scabrera52/dh11q4hs3bjly8s5/wish/2208006974 scabrera52 https://padlet.com/scabrera52/dh11q4hs3bjly8s5/wish/2208007063 This war started with a conflict between Vietnam, Leos, and Cambodia. It was a long and costly war caused by an independence movement driven by communist leader Ho Chi Minh.]]> 2022-06-01 20:37:47 UTC https://padlet.com/scabrera52/dh11q4hs3bjly8s5/wish/2208007063 scabrera52 https://padlet.com/scabrera52/dh11q4hs3bjly8s5/wish/2208007148 This boycott was a political and social protest campaign against the policy of racial segregation on the public transit system. It was sparked by the arrest of Rosa Parks and the protest lasted 13 months. ]]> 2022-06-01 20:37:55 UTC https://padlet.com/scabrera52/dh11q4hs3bjly8s5/wish/2208007148 scabrera52 https://padlet.com/scabrera52/dh11q4hs3bjly8s5/wish/2208007294 The Suez Crisis was the invasion of Egypt by Israel, followed by the United Kingdom, and France. It was provoked by an American and British decision not to finance Egypt's construction of the Aswan High Dam.]]> 2022-06-01 20:38:07 UTC https://padlet.com/scabrera52/dh11q4hs3bjly8s5/wish/2208007294 scabrera52 https://padlet.com/scabrera52/dh11q4hs3bjly8s5/wish/2208007389 Sputnik was the first artificial Earth satellite. It was launched into an elliptical low Earth orbit by the Soviet Union and orbited the earth for three weeks.]]> 2022-06-01 20:38:15 UTC https://padlet.com/scabrera52/dh11q4hs3bjly8s5/wish/2208007389 scabrera52 https://padlet.com/scabrera52/dh11q4hs3bjly8s5/wish/2208007521 This group is made up of a civil rights organization. It staged a 381-day boycott of Montgomery Alabama's segregated bus system. Its purpose was to coordinate the action of protest groups.]]> 2022-06-01 20:38:25 UTC https://padlet.com/scabrera52/dh11q4hs3bjly8s5/wish/2208007521 scabrera52 https://padlet.com/scabrera52/dh11q4hs3bjly8s5/wish/2208007587 On April 17, 1961, around 1,200 exiles armed with American guns and landing aircraft invaded the bay of pigs in Cuba. This invasion was a failed landing operation. When the Cuban-exile invasion force landed along the bay they came to unexpected heavy fire and ultimately met defeat. This failed invasion only strengthened Cuba's ties to the USSR and communism.]]> 2022-06-01 20:38:33 UTC https://padlet.com/scabrera52/dh11q4hs3bjly8s5/wish/2208007587 scabrera52 https://padlet.com/scabrera52/dh11q4hs3bjly8s5/wish/2208007670 The freedom riders were groups of white and African-American civil rights activists who protested segregated bus terminals. The group was originally made up of seven African Americans, and six whites. Their plan was to reach to commemorate the seventh anniversary of the Supreme Court's Brown.]]> 2022-06-01 20:38:41 UTC https://padlet.com/scabrera52/dh11q4hs3bjly8s5/wish/2208007670 scabrera52 https://padlet.com/scabrera52/dh11q4hs3bjly8s5/wish/2208007750 Was constructed by East German soldiers where they laid down more than 30 miles of barbed wire barrier through the heart of Berlin. It was built to keep western fascists from entering Germany.]]> 2022-06-01 20:38:49 UTC https://padlet.com/scabrera52/dh11q4hs3bjly8s5/wish/2208007750 scabrera52 https://padlet.com/scabrera52/dh11q4hs3bjly8s5/wish/2208007838 UFW is the nation's first enduring and largest farm workers union. It helps organize major agricultural sectors. It gained labor contracts with higher wages and improved working conditions.]]> 2022-06-01 20:38:56 UTC https://padlet.com/scabrera52/dh11q4hs3bjly8s5/wish/2208007838 scabrera52 https://padlet.com/scabrera52/dh11q4hs3bjly8s5/wish/2208007939 This crisis was a confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over the deployment of Soviet intermediate-range missiles in Cuba. Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev agreed to a Cuban request to place nuclear missiles on the island to prevent any future attacks.]]> 2022-06-01 20:39:05 UTC https://padlet.com/scabrera52/dh11q4hs3bjly8s5/wish/2208007939 scabrera52 https://padlet.com/scabrera52/dh11q4hs3bjly8s5/wish/2208008017 This book was written by Betty Friedan which sparked second-wave feminism. The publication of this book led to help giving millions of women around the world a voice and helped lead to gender equality.]]> 2022-06-01 20:39:13 UTC https://padlet.com/scabrera52/dh11q4hs3bjly8s5/wish/2208008017 scabrera52 https://padlet.com/scabrera52/dh11q4hs3bjly8s5/wish/2208008111 This was a massive protest in order to advocate for the civil rights and economic rights for all African Americans. The protest was against segregation, lack of voting rights, and unemployment as well for the blacks.]]> 2022-06-01 20:39:23 UTC https://padlet.com/scabrera52/dh11q4hs3bjly8s5/wish/2208008111 scabrera52 https://padlet.com/scabrera52/dh11q4hs3bjly8s5/wish/2208008307 JFK was a very well-known and intelligent president who was assassinated near the end of his third year in office and the youngest. He was assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald.]]> 2022-06-01 20:39:30 UTC https://padlet.com/scabrera52/dh11q4hs3bjly8s5/wish/2208008307 scabrera52 https://padlet.com/scabrera52/dh11q4hs3bjly8s5/wish/2208008632 This civil rights act outlaws discrimination against people of color, religion, and also sex. This right was sparked by Rosa Parks in order to end racial discrimination. ]]> 2022-06-01 20:39:42 UTC https://padlet.com/scabrera52/dh11q4hs3bjly8s5/wish/2208008632 scabrera52 https://padlet.com/scabrera52/dh11q4hs3bjly8s5/wish/2208008747 The voting rights act prohibited racial discrimination when it comes to voting. Any color, sex, or person with different religion had the right to vote. It was sparked when a voting-rights activist was murdered and attacked by white state troopers.]]> 2022-06-01 20:39:50 UTC https://padlet.com/scabrera52/dh11q4hs3bjly8s5/wish/2208008747 scabrera52 https://padlet.com/scabrera52/dh11q4hs3bjly8s5/wish/2208008836 This was an escalation of one of the largest military campaigns during the Vietnam War. It helped change perception of the Vietnam War. ]]> 2022-06-01 20:40:00 UTC https://padlet.com/scabrera52/dh11q4hs3bjly8s5/wish/2208008836 scabrera52 https://padlet.com/scabrera52/dh11q4hs3bjly8s5/wish/2208008955 This raid was a response that members of the gay community had against a police raid that took place in New York. This eventually initiated more and more riots and protests for several nights.]]> 2022-06-01 20:40:10 UTC https://padlet.com/scabrera52/dh11q4hs3bjly8s5/wish/2208008955 scabrera52 https://padlet.com/scabrera52/dh11q4hs3bjly8s5/wish/2208009058 The Red Power was a 19-month-long protest. It started a movement through which Native Americans won back much of their sovereignty. Its purpose was to demand self-determination.]]> 2022-06-01 20:40:18 UTC https://padlet.com/scabrera52/dh11q4hs3bjly8s5/wish/2208009058 scabrera52 https://padlet.com/scabrera52/dh11q4hs3bjly8s5/wish/2208009173 This amendment prohibited sex discrimination in federally funded education activities and programs. The amendment is a follow-up to the Civil Rights Act. ]]> 2022-06-01 20:40:28 UTC https://padlet.com/scabrera52/dh11q4hs3bjly8s5/wish/2208009173 scabrera52 https://padlet.com/scabrera52/dh11q4hs3bjly8s5/wish/2208009363 This scandal began when many burglars were arrested for being caught wiretapping phones and stealing documents in the office of the Democratic National Committee. This scandal changed many people's lives because Americans began to question their leaders.]]> 2022-06-01 20:40:38 UTC https://padlet.com/scabrera52/dh11q4hs3bjly8s5/wish/2208009363 scabrera52 https://padlet.com/scabrera52/dh11q4hs3bjly8s5/wish/2208009443 This famous lawsuit was a landmark decision of the Supreme Court in which the court ruled the U.S protects a pregnant woman's liberty to choose to have an abortion without government restriction. It eventually led to women having the right to abort without being defamed. ]]> 2022-06-01 20:40:45 UTC https://padlet.com/scabrera52/dh11q4hs3bjly8s5/wish/2208009443 scabrera52 https://padlet.com/scabrera52/dh11q4hs3bjly8s5/wish/2208009681 The resignation of Nixon was provoked because the House Judiciary Committee approved three articles of impeachment against Nixon for obstruction of justice, abusing power, and contempt of Congress. Nixon was accused of this, causing him to pull back and resign.]]> 2022-06-01 20:41:01 UTC https://padlet.com/scabrera52/dh11q4hs3bjly8s5/wish/2208009681 klugliani https://padlet.com/scabrera52/dh11q4hs3bjly8s5/wish/2209368284 North Vietnamese forces triggered a very major offensive position in the Central Highlands. NVA tanks rolled through the gate of the Presidential palace in Saigon which ultimately ended the war. It was extremely hard to fight this war if you were American because you were invading another country's land and they prepared really well and set traps for invaders..]]> 2022-06-02 19:33:54 UTC https://padlet.com/scabrera52/dh11q4hs3bjly8s5/wish/2209368284 klugliani https://padlet.com/scabrera52/dh11q4hs3bjly8s5/wish/2209368327 Around March 1976 new technologies started arising with the company Intel introducing the 8085 processor. Steve Wozniak designs the first Apple computer. The first 5.25-inch floppy disk was invented in 1976.]]> 2022-06-02 19:33:58 UTC https://padlet.com/scabrera52/dh11q4hs3bjly8s5/wish/2209368327 klugliani https://padlet.com/scabrera52/dh11q4hs3bjly8s5/wish/2209368389 Signed on September 7, 1977, the treaty recognized Panama as the territorial sovereign in the Canal one. This treaty for the Panama canal was called "The Torrijos" canal and was the first time the canal was put in Panamanian hands. The US still operated on the canal until 1999 but it was officially in Panamanian hands in September of 1977.]]> 2022-06-02 19:34:02 UTC https://padlet.com/scabrera52/dh11q4hs3bjly8s5/wish/2209368389 klugliani https://padlet.com/scabrera52/dh11q4hs3bjly8s5/wish/2209368471 On May 1, 1978, Uemura who was 5 foot 4 inches and weighed about 130 pounds. Uemura accomplished a solo mission to the North pole which no one before him had ever done. Traveling alone he reached the North pole after 57 harrowing days and nights. Uemura had to travel with a dogsled because transportation in the North pole was not a thing back then. This was a very risky leap of faith from Uemura because if he were to get injured he would have no one to help him.]]> 2022-06-02 19:34:08 UTC https://padlet.com/scabrera52/dh11q4hs3bjly8s5/wish/2209368471 klugliani https://padlet.com/scabrera52/dh11q4hs3bjly8s5/wish/2209368521 The Soviet-Afghan war was a conflict where insurgent groups known as the Mujahideen fought a nine-year guerilla war against the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan and the Soviet army. Around 15,000 Soviet soldiers were killed and about 35,000 were wounded in this war, unfortunately, about 2 million Afghanistan's died in the cross fire of this war. Gorbachev realized this war was affecting their economy so he signed a peace treaty to end the war in February of 1989.]]> 2022-06-02 19:34:13 UTC https://padlet.com/scabrera52/dh11q4hs3bjly8s5/wish/2209368521 klugliani https://padlet.com/scabrera52/dh11q4hs3bjly8s5/wish/2209368566 Smallpox was a big issue and was fatal in up to almost 30% of reported cases. Smallpox has been around for about 3,000 years and stayed at the top of the list of the world's most feared diseases. A collaborative global vaccination program led by the World Health Organization eliminated the disease and brought peace to many homes around the world.]]> 2022-06-02 19:34:17 UTC https://padlet.com/scabrera52/dh11q4hs3bjly8s5/wish/2209368566 klugliani https://padlet.com/scabrera52/dh11q4hs3bjly8s5/wish/2209368626 In November of 1979, 52 United States diplomats and citizens were held hostage after a group of Iranian college students took over the U.S embassy in Tehran. The motive for these ill-minded men were political, these college students were very involved in supporting the Iranian revolution and wanted to make a mark for Iran. A military operation to rescue the 52 hostages took place in April of 1980 but it ended with eight U.S servicemen dead and no hostages rescued. The original count of hostages was 66 but after a short period of time 13 hostages were released.]]> 2022-06-02 19:34:21 UTC https://padlet.com/scabrera52/dh11q4hs3bjly8s5/wish/2209368626 klugliani https://padlet.com/scabrera52/dh11q4hs3bjly8s5/wish/2209368685 A military operation ordered by Argentine forces in April 1982, the objective was to capture the Falkland Islands at all costs. In 1994 Argentina adopted a new constitution, which declared the Falkland Islands of one of its provinces by law. The UK had ruled the islands for more than 150 years so they were not giving it up very easily and fought for the Islands. Ultimately the British won the war and Argentina returned home.]]> 2022-06-02 19:34:26 UTC https://padlet.com/scabrera52/dh11q4hs3bjly8s5/wish/2209368685 klugliani https://padlet.com/scabrera52/dh11q4hs3bjly8s5/wish/2209368833 The United States invasion of Grenada began at dawn on October 25, 1983. The United States and six Caribbean nations invaded the island nation of Grenada. President Ronald Reagan sent the U.S troops to Grenada to protect U.S citizens there and to prevent the island use as a base for Soviet and Cuban aggression in the western hemisphere. During the moment it was a big deal because it was the largest U.S military operation since the Vietnam war.]]> 2022-06-02 19:34:37 UTC https://padlet.com/scabrera52/dh11q4hs3bjly8s5/wish/2209368833 klugliani https://padlet.com/scabrera52/dh11q4hs3bjly8s5/wish/2209368887 Indira Priyadarshini Gandhi was a politician in India and a central figure of the Indian national congress. She was the third prime minister of India and to this day the only female prime minister of India. Her bodyguards Satwant Singh and Beant Singh killed her in what was called an act of vengeance for the results of ongoing political tensions between Sikhs and Hindus.]]> 2022-06-02 19:34:41 UTC https://padlet.com/scabrera52/dh11q4hs3bjly8s5/wish/2209368887