https://padlet.com/grafshop000/jlrelgnyoi7p2nes The timeline of the horrific events that inspired the Handmaid's Tale. en-us 2022-03-14 17:04:27 UTC 2022-03-24 19:13:29 UTC hello@padlet.com grafshop000 https://padlet.com/grafshop000/jlrelgnyoi7p2nes/wish/2098412947 Decree 770 was passed by the communist government of Nicolae Ceausescu is Romania. The decree prohibited abortions or any form of contraception to Romanian women. Women were checked monthly by a gynecologist and any pregnancies were monitored by the secret police to term. A consequence of this sudden baby boom was that many children ended up in filthy orphanages because parents could not afford to keep all of the children. Women also tried to get back alley abortions which caused many cases of infection, infertility, or even death.]]> 2022-03-16 16:31:14 UTC https://padlet.com/grafshop000/jlrelgnyoi7p2nes/wish/2098412947 grafshop000 https://padlet.com/grafshop000/jlrelgnyoi7p2nes/wish/2098414835 Kristallnacht was an infamous attack on the Jewish people, fueled by anti-semitism and fear. After German diplomat Ernst vom Rath was assassinated by a young Polish Jew, the Nazi party used the fear from the attack to spread anti-Jewish feeling amont the German people. Two days after the assassination on November 9, 1938, thousands of Jewish businesses, cemeteries, houses, and synagogues]]> 2022-03-16 16:32:13 UTC https://padlet.com/grafshop000/jlrelgnyoi7p2nes/wish/2098414835 grafshop000 https://padlet.com/grafshop000/jlrelgnyoi7p2nes/wish/2098415241 The Holocaust was a racial genocide that took the lives of over 6 million Jewish people throughout Europe. Jews were treated like livestock and their basic human rights were stripped away. Millions of Jewish people were brought to work camps to labor for the Nazis or to extermination camps to be killed in gas chambers of my mass shooting.]]> 2022-03-16 16:32:26 UTC https://padlet.com/grafshop000/jlrelgnyoi7p2nes/wish/2098415241 grafshop000 https://padlet.com/grafshop000/jlrelgnyoi7p2nes/wish/2104569964 Adolf Hitler was appointed chancellor of Germany, sucking the country head first into facist Nazi regime. Hitler came to the German people as an intelligent man who was a very eloquent speaker. He promised the people a way out of poverty, but instead gave them mass genocide and years of crippling future debt.]]> 2022-03-21 05:03:56 UTC https://padlet.com/grafshop000/jlrelgnyoi7p2nes/wish/2104569964 grafshop000 https://padlet.com/grafshop000/jlrelgnyoi7p2nes/wish/2104573057 On March 29, 1976, after Argentine president Isabel Peron was forced out of office, a type of military coups called a junta, run by three men took control of Argentina. They closed the National Congress, banned trade unions, and brought the government under military control. Throughout Argentina, the regime set up hundreds of detention camps where thousands of people were imprisoned and tortured. Any opposition was cut off quickly by complete censorship, strict curfews, and the people's fear of the secret police. Newborns were stolen from their mothers to be raised by people who supported the junta - "subversive parents will raise subversive children."]]> 2022-03-21 05:06:22 UTC https://padlet.com/grafshop000/jlrelgnyoi7p2nes/wish/2104573057 grafshop000 https://padlet.com/grafshop000/jlrelgnyoi7p2nes/wish/2104576389 Puritans come to America and form the Massachusetts Bay Company. The Puritans were very patriarchal and women didn't have power to decide anything for themselves. Going to church and studying the bible was required for Puritans. Any punishments given out were designed to be humiliating for the person who received them, similarly to Nathanial Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, people would be forced to wear big letters on their chest to represent their sins, like a 'T' for thief. Public water dunking and whipping was also common.]]> 2022-03-21 05:09:08 UTC https://padlet.com/grafshop000/jlrelgnyoi7p2nes/wish/2104576389 grafshop000 https://padlet.com/grafshop000/jlrelgnyoi7p2nes/wish/2104577491 Mormonism was founded by Joseph Smith. A few years before Smith started Mormonism he claimed that he received visions from God that told him to form a new religion. One of the most well-known parts of Mormonism is the polygamy. Smith claimed that God told him that he, and other Mormon men, needed to marry multiple women. A common belief in the beginning of the religion was that certain sins, if bad enough, required the sinner to bleed in order to be forgiven so many Mormons were beaten half to death to gain forgiveness from God. ]]> 2022-03-21 05:10:01 UTC https://padlet.com/grafshop000/jlrelgnyoi7p2nes/wish/2104577491 grafshop000 https://padlet.com/grafshop000/jlrelgnyoi7p2nes/wish/2104579355 In 1949, George Orwell published 1984, a dystopian novel about a society in which free thought is banned. The only one allowed reason is the supreme leader "Big Brother," and anyone caught having thoughts against the regime were arrested by the thought police. Orwell wrote this tragic book to display what the world would look like without free thought.]]> 2022-03-21 05:11:36 UTC https://padlet.com/grafshop000/jlrelgnyoi7p2nes/wish/2104579355 grafshop000 https://padlet.com/grafshop000/jlrelgnyoi7p2nes/wish/2104588420 The Soviet Union was formed. After the Russian revolution of 1917 which overthrew Czar Nicholas II, The Bolsheviks created a socialist state which was followed by a long and bloody civil war. The Bolshevik Red Army defeated the White Army which were the people opposed to the communist rule. After the war during a period called the Red Terror, the Bolshevik secret police committed mass murder against anyone who supported the Czar as well as Russia's upper class people.]]> 2022-03-21 05:18:26 UTC https://padlet.com/grafshop000/jlrelgnyoi7p2nes/wish/2104588420 grafshop000 https://padlet.com/grafshop000/jlrelgnyoi7p2nes/wish/2105533884 The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood is published. Atwood lived in West Berlin during the heat of the cold war so she witnesses tragic events of crumbling democracy which along with many other researched atrocities, inspired The Handmaid's Tale.]]> 2022-03-21 15:05:26 UTC https://padlet.com/grafshop000/jlrelgnyoi7p2nes/wish/2105533884