https://padlet.com/2914856/dsdg9yudt3j6svp9 en-us 2021-12-15 19:42:26 UTC 2025-05-14 15:27:59 UTC hello@padlet.com 2914856 https://padlet.com/2914856/dsdg9yudt3j6svp9/wish/1950326773 President Franklin D. delivered his first fireside chat after taking office (March 12, 1933). By the time Roosevelt took office in (1933) the Great Depression had spread across the globe. The fireside chats were a series of the evening radio address given by Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd President of the United States between 1933 and 1944. The meaning of fireside chat is an informal conversation between a moderator and her guest.  ]]> 2021-12-15 19:58:24 UTC https://padlet.com/2914856/dsdg9yudt3j6svp9/wish/1950326773 2914856 https://padlet.com/2914856/dsdg9yudt3j6svp9/wish/1950332391 Martin Luther King Jr was an African American clergyman and civil rights leader. He was elected president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference. Martin worked with a number of civil rights and religious groups to organize the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. The March on Washington culminated in King's most Famous address, "I have a Dream" On the evening of April 4, 1968, Martin Luther King was assassinated. He was fatally shot while standing on the balcony of a motel in Memphis, where King had traveled to support a sanitation workers’ strike.]]> 2021-12-15 20:01:42 UTC https://padlet.com/2914856/dsdg9yudt3j6svp9/wish/1950332391 2914856 https://padlet.com/2914856/dsdg9yudt3j6svp9/wish/1950334773 On November 7, 1972, President Richard Nixon won a landslide re-election to a second term.Two years later, he resigned—the first president in history to do so. Nixon resigned because of “Watergate" a scandal that began with a bungled burglary and ended with criminal charges against his closest aides and demands for his impeachment.]]> 2021-12-15 20:03:11 UTC https://padlet.com/2914856/dsdg9yudt3j6svp9/wish/1950334773 2914856 https://padlet.com/2914856/dsdg9yudt3j6svp9/wish/1950339423 August 3, 1981, the majority of PACTO members went on strike. They broke a 1955 law that banned government employees from striking. The history of the PATCO (Port Authority Transit Corporation) Speedline first began in 1926. On August 5, following the PATCO workers' refusal to return to work, the administration fired the 11,345 striking air traffic controllers who had ignored the order, and banned them from federal service for life.]]> 2021-12-15 20:05:49 UTC https://padlet.com/2914856/dsdg9yudt3j6svp9/wish/1950339423 2914856 https://padlet.com/2914856/dsdg9yudt3j6svp9/wish/1950345541 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. An American Airlines jet crashed into the north tower of the World Trade Center in New York City. Hundreds of people were killed instantly. The impact left a gaping, burning hole near the 80th floor of the 110-story skyscraper. This attack killed 2,996 people.]]> 2021-12-15 20:09:16 UTC https://padlet.com/2914856/dsdg9yudt3j6svp9/wish/1950345541 2914856 https://padlet.com/2914856/dsdg9yudt3j6svp9/wish/1951032384 Trump won the 2016 election after a campaign that defied norms and commanded public attention from the moment it began. His approach to governing was equally unconventional.]]> 2021-12-16 05:20:02 UTC https://padlet.com/2914856/dsdg9yudt3j6svp9/wish/1951032384 2914856 https://padlet.com/2914856/dsdg9yudt3j6svp9/wish/1951063999 On May 25, George Floyd, a forty-six-year-old Black man, was arrested in Minneapolis for allegedly passing a counterfeit $20 bill. One of the officers kept his knee on George Floyd's neck. After eight minutes and fifteen seconds being on his neck he killed him.Video of Floyd’s killing triggered protests across the United States.justice and equality went far beyond America’s borders. People took to the streets to protest Floyd’s death and to highlight their own countries’ racial inequalities.Racism has been called America’s original sin. But it is a sin that extends beyond the United States.]]> 2021-12-16 05:56:02 UTC https://padlet.com/2914856/dsdg9yudt3j6svp9/wish/1951063999 2914856 https://padlet.com/2914856/dsdg9yudt3j6svp9/wish/1951069757 In 2019, a new coronavirus was identified as the cause of a disease outbreak that originated in China. COVID-19 is an illness caused by a virus. This virus is a new coronavirus that has spread throughout the world. It is thought to spread mainly through close contact from person-to-person. COVID-19 affected the world a lot. Students couldn't go to school anymore. Stores sold out of home needs like toilet paper, food, hand sanitizer etc. Cases were spreading worldwide and even animals were getting the disease. ]]> 2021-12-16 06:02:32 UTC https://padlet.com/2914856/dsdg9yudt3j6svp9/wish/1951069757