https://padlet.com/charmaineallen0218/isn7oirfcmha en-us 2017-03-31 18:42:47 UTC 2024-10-14 22:57:43 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Dootheets.png charmaineallen0218 https://padlet.com/charmaineallen0218/isn7oirfcmha/wish/164049709 The nuclear arms race was a competition for supremacy in nuclear warfare between the United States, the Soviet Union, and their respective allies during the Cold War.]]> 2017-03-31 18:42:47 UTC https://padlet.com/charmaineallen0218/isn7oirfcmha/wish/164049709 charmaineallen0218 https://padlet.com/charmaineallen0218/isn7oirfcmha/wish/164049710  On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the first man-made object to orbit the Earth. In a single stroke, this 184-pound object brought into question the United States' pre-eminence in science, industry, and military power.]]> 2017-03-31 18:42:47 UTC https://padlet.com/charmaineallen0218/isn7oirfcmha/wish/164049710 charmaineallen0218 https://padlet.com/charmaineallen0218/isn7oirfcmha/wish/164049711 The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) is a group consisting of 12 of the world's major oil-exporting nations. OPEC was founded in 1960 to coordinate the petroleum policies of its members, and to provide member states with technical and economic aid.]]> 2017-03-31 18:42:47 UTC https://padlet.com/charmaineallen0218/isn7oirfcmha/wish/164049711 charmaineallen0218 https://padlet.com/charmaineallen0218/isn7oirfcmha/wish/164049712 By 1956, the U.S. was in the midst of the Cold War with the Soviet Union. President Eisenhower was trying to determine a way for the U.S. to demonstrate strength and turn back the threat of communism. While implementing the Truman Doctrine of 1947, the U.S. pledged huge amounts of economic and military aid to Europe, but had no specific policy for other regions, like Asia or the Middle East.]]> 2017-03-31 18:42:47 UTC https://padlet.com/charmaineallen0218/isn7oirfcmha/wish/164049712 charmaineallen0218 https://padlet.com/charmaineallen0218/isn7oirfcmha/wish/164049713 , popularly known as the National Interstate and Defense Highways Act (Public Law 84-627), was enacted on June 29, 1956, when President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the bill into law.]]> 2017-03-31 18:42:47 UTC https://padlet.com/charmaineallen0218/isn7oirfcmha/wish/164049713 charmaineallen0218 https://padlet.com/charmaineallen0218/isn7oirfcmha/wish/164049714 include such disparate events as: racially based communal conflict involving African Americans that took place following the American Civil War. ... violence involving Latin American immigrants in the 20th century.]]> 2017-03-31 18:42:47 UTC https://padlet.com/charmaineallen0218/isn7oirfcmha/wish/164049714 charmaineallen0218 https://padlet.com/charmaineallen0218/isn7oirfcmha/wish/164049715  A law passed in 1944 that provided educational and other benefits for people who had served in the armed forces in World War II. Benefits are still available to persons honorably discharged from the armed forces.

]]> 2017-03-31 18:42:47 UTC https://padlet.com/charmaineallen0218/isn7oirfcmha/wish/164049715 charmaineallen0218 https://padlet.com/charmaineallen0218/isn7oirfcmha/wish/164049716 an unsuccessful invasion of Cuba by Cuban exiles, supported by the U.S. government. On Apr. 17, 1961, an armed force of about 1,500 Cuban exiles landed in the Bahía de Cochinos (Bay of Pigs) on the south coast of Cuba. Trained since May, 1960, in Guatemala by members of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) with the approval of the Eisenhower administration, and supplied with arms by the U.S. government, the rebels intended to foment an insurrection in Cuba and overthrow the Communist regime of Fidel Castro. The Cuban army easily defeated the rebels and by Apr. 20, most were either killed or captured.]]> 2017-03-31 18:42:47 UTC https://padlet.com/charmaineallen0218/isn7oirfcmha/wish/164049716 charmaineallen0218 https://padlet.com/charmaineallen0218/isn7oirfcmha/wish/164049717  a 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States (US), for supremacy in spaceflight capability.]]> 2017-03-31 18:42:47 UTC https://padlet.com/charmaineallen0218/isn7oirfcmha/wish/164049717 charmaineallen0218 https://padlet.com/charmaineallen0218/isn7oirfcmha/wish/164049719 also called the Korean conflict, fought in the early 1950s between the United Nations, supported by the United States, and the communist Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea). The war began in 1950, when North Korea invaded South Korea.]]> 2017-03-31 18:42:47 UTC https://padlet.com/charmaineallen0218/isn7oirfcmha/wish/164049719 charmaineallen0218 https://padlet.com/charmaineallen0218/isn7oirfcmha/wish/164049720 The establishment of residential communities on the outskirts of a city. In the United States, many suburbs were created after World War II, during a period of tremendous growth in population and industry.]]> 2017-03-31 18:42:47 UTC https://padlet.com/charmaineallen0218/isn7oirfcmha/wish/164049720 charmaineallen0218 https://padlet.com/charmaineallen0218/isn7oirfcmha/wish/164049721 As the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States intensified in the late 1940s and early 1950s, hysteria over the perceived threat posed by Communists in the U.S. became known as the Red Scare. (Communists were often referred to as “Reds” for their allegiance to the red Soviet flag.)]]> 2017-03-31 18:42:47 UTC https://padlet.com/charmaineallen0218/isn7oirfcmha/wish/164049721 charmaineallen0218 https://padlet.com/charmaineallen0218/isn7oirfcmha/wish/164049722 A wall that separated West Berlin, Germany, from East Germany, which surrounded it until 1989. At the end of World War II, the victorious Allies divided Berlin, the German capital, into four sectors. The eastern, or Russian, sector became the capital of communist East Germany.]]> 2017-03-31 18:42:47 UTC https://padlet.com/charmaineallen0218/isn7oirfcmha/wish/164049722 charmaineallen0218 https://padlet.com/charmaineallen0218/isn7oirfcmha/wish/164049723 The extreme opposition to communism shown by Senator Joseph R. McCarthy and his supporters in the 1940s and 1950s.]]> 2017-03-31 18:42:47 UTC https://padlet.com/charmaineallen0218/isn7oirfcmha/wish/164049723 charmaineallen0218 https://padlet.com/charmaineallen0218/isn7oirfcmha/wish/164049724 A military operation in the late 1940s that brought food and other needed goods into West Berlin by air after the government of East Germany, which at that time surrounded West Berlin (see Berlin wall), had cut off its supply routes.]]> 2017-03-31 18:42:47 UTC https://padlet.com/charmaineallen0218/isn7oirfcmha/wish/164049724 charmaineallen0218 https://padlet.com/charmaineallen0218/isn7oirfcmha/wish/164049725 the policy of President Truman, as advocated in his address to Congress on March 12, 1947, to provide military and economic aid to Greece and Turkey and, by extension, to any country threatened by Communism or any totalitarian ideology.]]> 2017-03-31 18:42:47 UTC https://padlet.com/charmaineallen0218/isn7oirfcmha/wish/164049725 charmaineallen0218 https://padlet.com/charmaineallen0218/isn7oirfcmha/wish/164049726 a term that originated in the United States, starting in the mid-20th century, and applied to the large-scale migration of people of various European ancestries from racially mixed urban regions to more racially homogeneous suburban or exurban regions.]]> 2017-03-31 18:42:47 UTC https://padlet.com/charmaineallen0218/isn7oirfcmha/wish/164049726 charmaineallen0218 https://padlet.com/charmaineallen0218/isn7oirfcmha/wish/164049727 A fallout shelter is an enclosed space specially designed to protect occupants from radioactive debris or fallout resulting from a nuclear explosion. Many such shelters were constructed as civil defense measures during the Cold War.]]> 2017-03-31 18:42:47 UTC https://padlet.com/charmaineallen0218/isn7oirfcmha/wish/164049727 charmaineallen0218 https://padlet.com/charmaineallen0218/isn7oirfcmha/wish/164049729 A United States foreign policy doctrine adopted by the Harry S. Truman administration in 1947, operating on the principle that communist governments will eventually fall apart as long as they are prevented from expanding their influence.]]> 2017-03-31 18:42:47 UTC https://padlet.com/charmaineallen0218/isn7oirfcmha/wish/164049729 charmaineallen0218 https://padlet.com/charmaineallen0218/isn7oirfcmha/wish/164049730 was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $12 billion (approximately $120 billion in current dollar value as of June 2016) in economic support to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World II]]> 2017-03-31 18:42:47 UTC https://padlet.com/charmaineallen0218/isn7oirfcmha/wish/164049730