https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77 Made with a wish on a star en-us 2021-04-28 18:04:14 UTC 2025-10-20 06:52:49 UTC hello@padlet.com 17722554 https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1470445044 2021-04-28 18:06:01 UTC https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1470445044 17722554 https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1470446531 2021-04-28 18:06:20 UTC https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1470446531 17722554 https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1470448103 2021-04-28 18:06:40 UTC https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1470448103 17722554 https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1470450829 2021-04-28 18:07:15 UTC https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1470450829 17722554 https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1470452799 2021-04-28 18:07:40 UTC https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1470452799 17722554 https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1470457344 2021-04-28 18:08:38 UTC https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1470457344 17722554 https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1470458778 2021-04-28 18:08:57 UTC https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1470458778 17722554 https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1470465613 2021-04-28 18:10:20 UTC https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1470465613 17722554 https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1470480438 Gave money to Western Europe in order to rebuild. Prevents the spread of communism]]> 2021-04-28 18:13:21 UTC https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1470480438 17722554 https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1470523047 Trying to to the sppreading of communism . With this the Marshall Plan and Truman Doctorine set up the idea of rebuilding Europe so it isnt communist ]]> 2021-04-28 18:21:54 UTC https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1470523047 17722554 https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1470554151 To keep commuism from taking all of Berlin, the US airlifted food materials, suppilies into West Berlin]]> 2021-04-28 18:28:30 UTC https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1470554151 17722554 https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1470597831 2021-04-28 18:37:45 UTC https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1470597831 17722554 https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1470604696 Women were getting more rights like voting and even working '"manly" jobs since the men were fighting in the war.. they had jobs like  factories producing munitions, building ships, aeroplanes, in the auxiliary services as air-raid wardens, fire officers ect.]]> 2021-04-28 18:39:15 UTC https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1470604696 17722554 https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1470606278 2021-04-28 18:39:36 UTC https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1470606278 17722554 https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1470612708 many people lived in suburbans or, areas that are close to the cities. They were made for people that worked in the cities but maybe didn't want to necessarily live in the city. Suburbs were mostly outside the city limits with roads leading to the city.]]> 2021-04-28 18:41:00 UTC https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1470612708 17722554 https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1470649949 The Taft-Hartley Act is a 1947 U.S. federal law that extended and modified the 1935 Wagner Act. It prohibits certain union practices and requires disclosure of certain financial and political activities by unions.]]> 2021-04-28 18:49:12 UTC https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1470649949 axdowdy https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1496773790 A baby boom is a period marked by a significant increase of birth rate. This demographic phenomenon is usually ascribed within certain geographical bounds of defined national and cultural populations.]]> 2021-05-06 05:36:35 UTC https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1496773790 axdowdy https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1496775718 NATO's essential and enduring purpose is to safeguard the freedom and security of all its members by political and military means. Collective defence is at the heart of the Alliance and creates a spirit of solidarity and cohesion among its members]]> 2021-05-06 05:37:42 UTC https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1496775718 axdowdy https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1496826644 The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission proposed revisions to rules governing proxy access, allowing shareholders greater role in the nomination of directors. Widely opposed by business, the changes were not adopted.]]> 2021-05-06 06:03:11 UTC https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1496826644 axdowdy https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1496845913 In the 1950s, the sale of TV sets and the boom in programming made TV America's favorite source of entertainment.]]> 2021-05-06 06:11:18 UTC https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1496845913 axdowdy https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1496846528  television superseded radio as the most popular broadcast medium, and commercial radio programming shifted to narrower formats of news, talk, sports and music. Religious broadcasters, listener-supported public radio and college stations provide their own distinctive formats.]]> 2021-05-06 06:11:34 UTC https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1496846528 axdowdy https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1496847694  During this time rock In' roll became a dividing and uniting force. It pitted parents, the mass media, and the government against teenagers, and at the same time helped erode some of the prejudices felt towards African Americans.]]> 2021-05-06 06:12:03 UTC https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1496847694 axdowdy https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1496848437 To try to win back audiences from TV, the movie industry promoted the color, better sound, big screens and emotional power of the theatre experience, even to the point of inventing new formats like "Cinerama," "Cinemascope" and – thankfully, briefly – 3-D and "Aroma-Rama." ]]> 2021-05-06 06:12:21 UTC https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1496848437 axdowdy https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1496849875  Education of Topeka, 347 U.S. 483 (1954) - This was the seminal case in which the Court declared that states could no longer maintain or establish laws allowing separate schools for black and white students.]]> 2021-05-06 06:12:58 UTC https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1496849875 axdowdy https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1496861659 The Little Rock Nine became an integral part of the fight for equal opportunity in American education when they dared to challenge public school segregation by enrolling at the all-white Central High School in 1957]]> 2021-05-06 06:17:08 UTC https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1496861659 axdowdy https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1496862728 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. ]]> 2021-05-06 06:17:36 UTC https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1496862728 axdowdy https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1496863789  the NAACP's mission was and is to ensure the political, educational, social and economic equality of minority group citizens of United States and eliminate race prejudice. The NAACP seeks to remove all barriers of racial discrimination through democratic processes.]]> 2021-05-06 06:18:03 UTC https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1496863789 axdowdy https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1496876858 The war began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea following clashes along the border and insurrections in the south. ]]> 2021-05-06 06:23:20 UTC https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1496876858 axdowdy https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1496878245 They had been sent out to Korea as advisors first to help train the south korean soliders ]]> 2021-05-06 06:23:58 UTC https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1496878245 axdowdy https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1496879382 They had sent them to help fight in the war]]> 2021-05-06 06:24:24 UTC https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1496879382 axdowdy https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1496880685 They had been sent to help fight in the south]]> 2021-05-06 06:24:47 UTC https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1496880685 axdowdy https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1496882487 Truman made the decision to use the atomic bomb against Japan, helped rebuild postwar Europe, worked to contain communism and led the United States into the Korean War]]> 2021-05-06 06:25:29 UTC https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1496882487 axdowdy https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1496883689 The civil rights movement in the United States was a decades-long campaign by African Americans and their like-minded allies to end institutionalized racial discrimination, disenfranchisement and racial segregation in the United States.]]> 2021-05-06 06:25:57 UTC https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1496883689 axdowdy https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1496886202 A period in the United States history when everyone was so caught up in containment of communism, and investigated people within their community for communism. Even people in the government were suspected of being communist spies.]]> 2021-05-06 06:26:57 UTC https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1496886202 axdowdy https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1496887262 Explorer 1, which launched in January 31, 1958, was the United States' first successful satellite launch and provided the first data ever transmitted from Space. That data came from a cosmic ray detector on board the satellite invented by physicist James Van Allen.]]> 2021-05-06 06:27:21 UTC https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1496887262 axdowdy https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1498111493 U.S. President Richard Nixon orders an invasion of Cambodia, widening the war in Vietnam. In protest, millions march across the U.S. University campuses are shut down by student strikes. Four protestors at Kent State University in Ohio are killed by National Guard troops.

]]> 2021-05-06 13:41:17 UTC https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1498111493 axdowdy https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1498147912 U.S. Supreme Court rules unanimously that busing students may be ordered to achieve racial desegregation of schools.

]]> 2021-05-06 13:48:18 UTC https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1498147912 axdowdy https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1498186494 The People's Peace Treaty was developed in December 1970, by representatives of United States and Vietnamese student organizations. The treaty was part of a collaborative effort to end the Vietnam War by outlining a number of principles with which all sides could agree.]]> 2021-05-06 13:55:22 UTC https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1498186494 axdowdy https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1498193069 The Twenty-sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution lowered the minimum voting age in the United States from 21 to 18. The United States Congress approved the amendment on March 23, 1971, and sent it to the states to be ratified.]]> 2021-05-06 13:56:33 UTC https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1498193069 axdowdy https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1498202568 In the spring of 1975 the North Vietnamese army conquered all of South Vietnam, and the following year North and South were formally united in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam.]]> 2021-05-06 13:58:23 UTC https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1498202568 axdowdy https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1498217977 The anti-war movement did force the United States to sign a peace treaty, withdraw its remaining forces, and end the draft in early 1973. Throughout a decade of organizing, anti-war activists used a variety of tactics to shift public opinion and ultimately alter the actions of political leaders.]]> 2021-05-06 14:01:17 UTC https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1498217977 axdowdy https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1498226060 The Pentagon Papers revealed that the U.S. had secretly enlarged the scope of its actions in the Vietnam War with the bombings of nearby Cambodia and Laos, coastal raids on North Vietnam, and Marine Corps attacks—none of which were reported in the mainstream media.]]> 2021-05-06 14:02:46 UTC https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1498226060 axdowdy https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1498238262 The Treaty between Germany and the USSR, signed in Moscow on 12 August 1970, launched German policy vis-à-vis Eastern Europe , paving the way for the normalisation of diplomatic relations and confirming the peaceful territorial status quo between the Soviet Union and the Federal Republic of Germany ]]> 2021-05-06 14:04:48 UTC https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1498238262 axdowdy https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1498250089 The US, Soviet Union and 92 other nations sign the Seabed Treaty, banning the testing or deployment of nuclear weapons on the ocean floor.]]> 2021-05-06 14:07:06 UTC https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1498250089 axdowdy https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1498263170 The Biological Weapons Convention, or Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention, is a disarmament treaty that effectively bans biological and toxin weapons by prohibiting their development, production, acquisition, transfer, stockpiling and use.]]> 2021-05-06 14:09:24 UTC https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1498263170 axdowdy https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1498300231 The National Organization for Women (NOW) picketed the White House in support of pro-choice laws that would make abortion legal. In 1973, the Supreme Court legalized abortion (Roe v. Wade).

]]> 2021-05-06 14:16:14 UTC https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1498300231 axdowdy https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1498305246 In 1970, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was established to regulate pollution and create standards for clean air and water.

]]> 2021-05-06 14:17:10 UTC https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1498305246 axdowdy https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1498312124 Mexican-Americans began voting and running for local office. They asked school districts to teach both English and Spanish in schools. Cesar Chavez worked in California to negotiate more rights for migrant workers.

]]> 2021-05-06 14:18:29 UTC https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1498312124 axdowdy https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1498322933  leaders of the American Indian Movement took over the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Washington, D.C. Tribes across the country were living in deplorable conditions on reservations. Several groups sued for better treatment. ]]> 2021-05-06 14:20:30 UTC https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1498322933 axdowdy https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1498336799 In the 1970s, women's groups tried to create a more open and nurturing society. To achieve this, they demanded and won access to male-dominated business and universities.]]> 2021-05-06 14:22:59 UTC https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1498336799 axdowdy https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1499320934 The historic 1964 Civil Rights Act included federal measures to enforce school desegregation. Subsequent Congressional action and a series of Supreme Court rulings in the late 1960s ]]> 2021-05-06 17:28:42 UTC https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1499320934 axdowdy https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1499323664 Election Debates started to become broadcatsed on national tv anad first one to do that was Kennedy vs Nixon]]> 2021-05-06 17:29:15 UTC https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1499323664 axdowdy https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1499326188 On September 22, 1961, President John F. Kennedy signed into law the Peace Corps Act, making good on a promise to seek Americans “from every race and walk of life” to volunteer their services to developing countries]]> 2021-05-06 17:29:46 UTC https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1499326188 axdowdy https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1499327762 Gagarin's flight came at a time when the United States and the Soviet Union were competing for technological supremacy in space. The Soviet Union had already sent the first artificial satellite, called Sputnik, into space in October 1957.]]> 2021-05-06 17:30:06 UTC https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1499327762 axdowdy https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1499358837 in 1961, when the state's flagship school was issued a court ruling that ordered the immediate admission of two African American teenagers, Charlayne Hunter and Hamilton Holmes]]> 2021-05-06 17:36:03 UTC https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1499358837 axdowdy https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1499360321 Segregationists were protesting the enrollment of James Meredith, an African-American veteran, at the University of Mississippi in Oxford, Mississippi.]]> 2021-05-06 17:36:21 UTC https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1499360321 axdowdy https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1499378380 In 1963, President John F. Kennedy federalized National Guard troops and deployed them to the University of Alabama to force its desegregation. The next day, Governor Wallace yielded to the federal pressure, and two African American students Vivian Malone and James A. Hood successfully enrolled.]]> 2021-05-06 17:39:49 UTC https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1499378380 axdowdy https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1499388806 Through nonviolent protest, the civil rights movement of the 1950s and '60s broke the pattern of public facilities' being segregated by “race” in the South and achieved the most important breakthrough in equal-rights legislation for African Americans since the Reconstruction period ]]> 2021-05-06 17:41:49 UTC https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1499388806 axdowdy https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1499926812 The Berlin Crisis started when the USSR launched an ultimatum demanding the withdrawal of all armed forces from Berlin, including the Western armed forces in West Berlin. The crisis culminated in the city's de facto partition with the East German erection of the Berlin Wall.]]> 2021-05-06 19:42:16 UTC https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1499926812 axdowdy https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1499938527 At the Vienna summit of June 1961, Khrushchev again demanded that the Americans leave West Berlin. President John F. Kennedy refused and on 25 July, increased America's spending on weapons.]]> 2021-05-06 19:45:17 UTC https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1499938527 axdowdy https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1499945409 During the Cuban Missile Crisis, leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S. shores]]> 2021-05-06 19:47:13 UTC https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1499945409 axdowdy https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1499953558 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. Tensions escalated into armed conflict between the two sides, and in 1961 U.S. President John F.]]> 2021-05-06 19:49:22 UTC https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1499953558 axdowdy https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1499961558 The Albany Movement was a desegregation campaign formed on November 17, 1961, in Albany, Georgia and it had challenged all forms of racial segregation and discrimination in the city. ]]> 2021-05-06 19:51:35 UTC https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1499961558 axdowdy https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1499968858 King and Fred Shuttlesworth announced an agreement with the city of Birmingham to desegregate lunch counters, restrooms, drinking fountains, and department store fitting rooms within ninety days, to hire blacks in stores as salesmen and clerks, and to release of hundreds of jail protesters on bond.]]> 2021-05-06 19:53:31 UTC https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1499968858 axdowdy https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1499974589 Provisions of this civil rights act forbade discrimination on the basis of sex, as well as, race in hiring, promoting, and firing. ]]> 2021-05-06 19:55:05 UTC https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1499974589 axdowdy https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1499982534 The Kennedy-Nixon debates not only had a major impact on the election’s outcome, but ushered in a new era in which crafting a public image and taking advantage of media exposure became essential ingredients of a successful political campaign. They also heralded the central role television has continued to play in the democratic process.]]> 2021-05-06 19:57:20 UTC https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1499982534 axdowdy https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1499997250 Unemployment was high, while prices and wages were low. By 1940, with Europe at war, everything had changed. European countries were desperate for goods to use in the war effort. They spent millions of dollars on American steel, ammunition, weapons, and food.

]]> 2021-05-06 20:01:40 UTC https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1499997250 axdowdy https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1500004856 Due to the world war there was't a lot of leisure time, but the most popular things that they did  were watching movies, going to sporting events,watching TV, listening to the radio, and going to dances or party's.]]> 2021-05-06 20:03:56 UTC https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1500004856 axdowdy https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1500022127 This Act regulates the organization of companies, including mutual funds, that engage primarily in investing, reinvesting, and trading in securities, and whose own securities are offered to the investing public]]> 2021-05-06 20:09:17 UTC https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1500022127 axdowdy https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1500037991 The Hoover Commission, officially named the Commission on Organization of the Executive Branch of the Government, was a body appointed by President Harry S. Truman in 1947 to recommend administrative changes in the Federal Government of the United States.]]> 2021-05-06 20:14:17 UTC https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1500037991 axdowdy https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1500046707 2021-05-06 20:17:02 UTC https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1500046707 axdowdy https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1500978850 The Fall of the Berlin Wall was one of the most famous scenes in history. It was also a pivotal event as it marked thebeginning of the fall of communism in Central and Eastern Europe. The Berlin Wall was a concrete barrier that was guarded. It physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989.]]> 2021-05-07 03:28:36 UTC https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1500978850 axdowdy https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1500982081 The Iran-Contra Affair, or also known as the McFarlane affair in Iran, was a political scandal in the United States. It was a secret U.S. arms deal that traded missiles and other arms to free some Americans that were held hostage by terrorists in Lebanon and it also used funds from the arms deal to support armed conflict in Nicaragua.]]> 2021-05-07 03:30:21 UTC https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1500982081 axdowdy https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1500987915 During the Geneva Summit that was held on November 19, 1985, U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet Union leader Mikhail Gorbachev shook hands as they meet and the fact that the two sides met harmoniously in the midst of Cold War tensions appeared to promise well for the future of international relations. ]]> 2021-05-07 03:33:46 UTC https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1500987915 axdowdy https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1501004834  a fatal incident in the United States' space program that occurred on January 28, 1986, when the Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, killing all seven crew members aboard.]]> 2021-05-07 03:44:29 UTC https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1501004834 axdowdy https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1501009060 an advertising campaign prevalent during the 1980s and early 1990s as a part of the U.S. "War on Drugs", aiming to discourage children from engaging in illegal recreational drug use by offering various ways of saying no.]]> 2021-05-07 03:47:13 UTC https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1501009060 axdowdy https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1501016503 The Cold War came to the Olympics in 1980 as the United States led the way in a mass boycott of the Moscow Games in protest at the Soviet Union's 1979 invasion of Afghanistan.]]> 2021-05-07 03:52:16 UTC https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1501016503 axdowdy https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1501023750 music started to broadcast on tv and  instrumental in promoting the careers of performers such as Madonna, Michael Jackson, Prince and Duran Duran etc. ]]> 2021-05-07 03:57:31 UTC https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1501023750 axdowdy https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1501027363 Tv started to become more popluar i should say and better improved ]]> 2021-05-07 04:00:05 UTC https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1501027363 axdowdy https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1501037628 People were starting to take care of themselves better becase they were seeing the dangers of drugs, and because with new diesases like aids started to come around, people started to have safe sex]]> 2021-05-07 04:06:46 UTC https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1501037628 axdowdy https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1501055466 The Macintosh was a computer with a price tag that was within reach for many, and more importantly, it was a computer that almost anyone could operate without going to school to become an expert]]> 2021-05-07 04:19:25 UTC https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1501055466 axdowdy https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1501056819 The second New Right formed a policy approach and electoral apparatus that brought Ronald Reagan into the White House in the 1980 presidential election. The New Right was organized in the American Enterprise Institute and The Heritage Foundation to counter the so-called "liberal establishment".]]> 2021-05-07 04:20:21 UTC https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1501056819 axdowdy https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1501058852 tensions started to rise due to the change in western foregin policy towards the Soviet Union ]]> 2021-05-07 04:21:50 UTC https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1501058852 axdowdy https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1501061188 The United States halts wheat sales to the Soviet Union, a sanction imposed after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.]]> 2021-05-07 04:23:25 UTC https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1501061188 axdowdy https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1501068879 Women and People of Color were not getting paid as much as men were getting paid]]> 2021-05-07 04:28:07 UTC https://padlet.com/17722554/lf95qr3ymu796h77/wish/1501068879