https://padlet.com/1023165/lztqeg61dk5h en-us 2017-03-09 17:20:01 UTC 2023-02-18 17:01:30 UTC hello@padlet.com 1023165 https://padlet.com/1023165/lztqeg61dk5h/wish/159055751 Premier of the People's Republic of China since 1949. Zhou was second to Mao Zedong, the leader of the revolution that brought communist regime in China. Beyond his significance as a leader of communist China, Zhou was instrumental in the negotiations that resulted in the U.S. recognition of the PRC in 1979. In the early 1970's, Zhou embarked on a program to rebuild relations with the U.S., which had refused to recognize the Chinese communist government. ]]> 2017-03-09 17:22:09 UTC https://padlet.com/1023165/lztqeg61dk5h/wish/159055751 1023165 https://padlet.com/1023165/lztqeg61dk5h/wish/159056866 The bloodiest year of the war comes to an end. At year’s end, 536,040 American servicemen were stationed in Vietnam, an increase of over 50,000 from 1967. Estimates from Headquarters U.S. Military Assistance Command Vietnam indicated that 181,150 Viet Cong and North Vietnamese were killed during the year. However, Allied losses were also up: 27,915 South Vietnamese, 14,584 Americans (a 56 percent increase over 1967), and 979 South Koreans, Australians, New Zealanders, and Thais were reported killed during 1968. Since January 1961, more than 31,000 U.S. servicemen had been killed in Vietnam and over 200,000 U.S. personnel had been wounded.]]> 2017-03-09 17:24:24 UTC https://padlet.com/1023165/lztqeg61dk5h/wish/159056866 1023165 https://padlet.com/1023165/lztqeg61dk5h/wish/159059304 Richard Nixon (1913-940, the 34th U.S. president, is best remembered as the only president ever to resign from office. Nixon stepped down in 1974, halfway through his second term, rather than face impeachment over his efforts to cover up illegal activities. In 1960, Nixon lost his bid for the presidency in a close race with Democrat John F. Kennedy. He ran for the White house again in 1968 and won. His achievements as the president included forging diplomatic ties with China and the Soviet Union, and withdrawing U.S. troops from an unpopular war in Vietnam. ]]> 2017-03-09 17:29:30 UTC https://padlet.com/1023165/lztqeg61dk5h/wish/159059304 1023165 https://padlet.com/1023165/lztqeg61dk5h/wish/159060550  The act restricted the President's war-making powers by requiring him to consult with Congress. Within 48hr of committing American forces to a foreign conflict. The act was congressional attempt to check the uninternal formation American foreign policy. Stop the growth of the"imperial presidency." The congress passed this act in 1973.]]> 2017-03-09 17:32:15 UTC https://padlet.com/1023165/lztqeg61dk5h/wish/159060550 1023165 https://padlet.com/1023165/lztqeg61dk5h/wish/159061388 A political organization with its own army - People,s Liberation Armed Forces of South Vietnam (PLAF). Located in South Vietnam and Cambodia, that fought United States and South Vietnamese government. Consist of both guerrilla and regular army units, as well as a network of cadres who organized peasants in the territory it controlled. Many of the Viet Cong's core members were volunteer "regroupees", southern Viet Minh who had resettled in the North after the Geneva Accord. PLAF's best known action was the Tet Offensive, a massive assault on more than 100 South Vietnamese urban centers in 1968.]]> 2017-03-09 17:34:13 UTC https://padlet.com/1023165/lztqeg61dk5h/wish/159061388 1023165 https://padlet.com/1023165/lztqeg61dk5h/wish/159061630 Minnesota senator in 1968, an antiwar  candidate for the Democratic Party nomination. He made surprisingly strong showing in the New Hampshire primary. Bother McCarthy and Robert Kennedy believed that the war had divided America. Also drained resources away from the fights against poverty and discrimination. What Johnson feared most was happening: The war was undermining his presidency.]]> 2017-03-09 17:34:57 UTC https://padlet.com/1023165/lztqeg61dk5h/wish/159061630 1023165 https://padlet.com/1023165/lztqeg61dk5h/wish/159063216 On January 31, 1968, some 70,000 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong forces launched the Tet Offensive, a coordinated series of fierce attacks on more than 100 cities and towns in South Vietnam. General Vo Nguyen Giap, leader of the Communist People's Army of Vietnam (PAVN), planned the offensive in an attempt both to foment rebellion among the South Vietnamese population. And Encourage the United States to scale back its support of the Saigon regime. Though U.S and South Vietnamese forces managed to hold off the Communist attacks, news coverage of the offensive shocked and dismayed the American public and further eroded support for the war effort. ]]> 2017-03-09 17:38:50 UTC https://padlet.com/1023165/lztqeg61dk5h/wish/159063216 1023165 https://padlet.com/1023165/lztqeg61dk5h/wish/161852701 During the late 1960,s the United States learned that the Soviet Union had embarked upon a massive Intercontinental Ballistic Missile buildup designed to reach parity with the United Sates. In January 1967, President Lyndon Johnson announced that the Soviet Union had begun to construct a limited Anti-Ballistic Missile defense system around Moscow. The development of an AMB system could allow one side to launch a first strike and then prevent the other from retaliating by shooting down incoming missile. For the first time during the Cold War, the United States and Soviet Union had agreed to limit the number of nuclear missiles in their arsenals. SALT 1 is considered the crowing achievement of the Nixon-Kissinger strategy of detente. ]]> 2017-03-22 15:17:28 UTC https://padlet.com/1023165/lztqeg61dk5h/wish/161852701 1023165 https://padlet.com/1023165/lztqeg61dk5h/wish/161854373 Robert Kennedy (1925-1968) served as the U.S. attorney general from 1961 to 1964 and as U.S. senator from New York from 1965 to 1968. Kennedy was appointed attorney general after his brother John Kennedy was elected president in 1960. Robert Kennedy fought organized crime and worked for civil rights for African Americans. He also served as a close advisor to the president. In the Senate, he was a committed advocate of the poor and racial minorities, and opposed escalation of the Vietnam War. On June 5, 1968, while in Los ANgeles campaigning for the Democratic presidential nomination, Kennedy was shot. He died early the next day at age 42.]]> 2017-03-22 15:21:22 UTC https://padlet.com/1023165/lztqeg61dk5h/wish/161854373 1023165 https://padlet.com/1023165/lztqeg61dk5h/wish/161857421 In 1959, Cuban revolutionary Fidel Castro succeeded in overthrowing the regime of Fulgencio Batista. Initially, the United States attempted to cultivate good relations with Castro. However, it soon became clear that the Cuban leader was determined to nationalize land held by private U.S. Citizens. He also planned to enforce radical reform measures, and accept Soviet economic and military aid. Thousands of wealthy and middle-class Cuban fled their country. Proud of their heritage be deeply anticommunist , they made new lives for themselves and their family in the United States.]]> 2017-03-22 15:27:37 UTC https://padlet.com/1023165/lztqeg61dk5h/wish/161857421 1023165 https://padlet.com/1023165/lztqeg61dk5h/wish/161858179 A name given to a secret Department of Defense study of U.S. political and military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967. Prepared at the request of Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara in 1967. As the Vietnam War dragged on and the U.S. military presence in South Vietnam increased to more than 500,000 troops by 1968, the military analyst Daniel Ellsberg came to oppose the war, and decided that the information contained in the Pentagon Papers should be more widely available to the American public. He secretly photocopied the report and in March 1971 gave the copy to the New York Times. ]]> 2017-03-22 15:29:28 UTC https://padlet.com/1023165/lztqeg61dk5h/wish/161858179 1023165 https://padlet.com/1023165/lztqeg61dk5h/wish/161860779 During the Vietnam War, as part of the strategic bombing campaign known as Operation Rolling Thunder, U.S. military aircraft attacked targets throughout North Vietnam from March 1965 to October 1968. This massive bombardment was intended to put military pressure on North Vietnam's Communist leaders and reduce their capacity to wage war against the U.S. - supported government of South Vietnam. Operation Rolling Thunder marked the first sustained American assault of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War. Some claim that the bombing campaign came close to crippling North Vietnam's capacity to wage war, while others contend the campaign's effectiveness was limited.]]> 2017-03-22 15:35:24 UTC https://padlet.com/1023165/lztqeg61dk5h/wish/161860779 1023165 https://padlet.com/1023165/lztqeg61dk5h/wish/161861104 U.S. troops used a substance known as napalm from about 1965 to 1972 in the Vietnam War; napalm is a mixture of plastic polystyrene, hydrocarbon benzene, and gasoline. The effects of napalm on the humans body are unbearably painful and almost always cause death among its victim. Napalm was first used in flamethrowers for U.S. ground troops; they burned down sections of forest and bushes in hopes of eliminating any enemy guerrilla fighter. Later on in the war B-52 Bombers began dropping napalm bombs and other incendiary explosives. ]]> 2017-03-22 15:36:04 UTC https://padlet.com/1023165/lztqeg61dk5h/wish/161861104 1023165 https://padlet.com/1023165/lztqeg61dk5h/wish/161861163 Johnson's agenda amended the Social Swcurity Act by adding Medical Care for Aged Program. Medicare provided basic hospital insurance for Americans in the Social Security system who were aged 65 and older. Also included Medicaid feature that provided basic medical services to poor and disabled Americans who were not part of the Social Security system. Johnson signed the bill into law in Independence, Missouri, home of former President Harry Truman, who had called for a national health insurance program almost lasted 20 years earlier.

]]> 2017-03-22 15:36:13 UTC https://padlet.com/1023165/lztqeg61dk5h/wish/161861163 1023165 https://padlet.com/1023165/lztqeg61dk5h/wish/161862330 In one of the most horrific incidents of violence against civilians during the Vietnam War, a company of American soldiers brutally killed the majority of the population of the South Vietnamese hamlet of My Lai in March 1967. Though exact numbers remain unconfirmed, it is believed that as many as 500 people including women, children and the elderly were killed in the My Lai Massacre. High-ranking U.S. Army officers managed to cover up the events but the word spread and sparked a wave of international outrage. In 1970, U.S. Army board charged 14 officers of crimes related to the events at My Lai; only one was convicted. This event further divided the nation over the continuing American presence in Vietnam]]> 2017-03-22 15:38:43 UTC https://padlet.com/1023165/lztqeg61dk5h/wish/161862330 1023165 https://padlet.com/1023165/lztqeg61dk5h/wish/161864456 Led the Soviet Union during the height of the Cold War, serving a premier from 1958 to 1964. Though he largely pursued a policy of peaceful coexistence with the West, he instigated the Cuban Missile Crisis by placing nuclear weapons 90 miles from Florida. He initiated a process of "de-Stalinization" that made Soviet Union less repressive. Yet he can be authoritarian in his own right, crushing revolt in Hungary and approving the construction of the Berlin Wall.]]> 2017-03-22 15:43:42 UTC https://padlet.com/1023165/lztqeg61dk5h/wish/161864456 1023165 https://padlet.com/1023165/lztqeg61dk5h/wish/161865137 Born in Stonewell, Texas, Lyndon B. Johnson was raised in the Hill Country town of Johnson City. At a tiny segregated school for Mexican Americans, heconfronted firsthand the challenges faced by poverty-stricken minority students, and the lessons he learned remained with him for the rest of his life. After teaching for several years, Johnson entered-first as a Texas congressman,S secretary and then as the head of the Texas National Youth Administration. In 1937, Johnson was elected to congress and became the most powerful person on Capitol Hill. Elected senate in 1948 and in 1960 he hoped to be chosen by the Democratic Party to run for president .]]> 2017-03-22 15:45:27 UTC https://padlet.com/1023165/lztqeg61dk5h/wish/161865137 1023165 https://padlet.com/1023165/lztqeg61dk5h/wish/161865629 Under the Great Society program, the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 altered America's quota system into the country. Nearly 170,000 immigrants from the Eastern Hemisphere were allowed into the country. Nearly 120,000 immigrants from the Western Hemishpere were welcomed. Immigrants from Latin America, Central America, the Caribbean, and Asian soon began to pour into the United States, providing the country with a pool of ideas, talent, and skills. During the 1960's and 1970's, millions of immigrants would arrive on American Shores.]]> 2017-03-22 15:46:46 UTC https://padlet.com/1023165/lztqeg61dk5h/wish/161865629 1023165 https://padlet.com/1023165/lztqeg61dk5h/wish/161865815 First emerged as an outspoken voice for Vietnamese independence while living as a young man in France during World War 1. Inspired by the Bolshevik Revolution, he joined the communist part and traveled to the Soviet Union. Helped found the Indochinese Communist Party in 1930 and the League for the Independence of Vietnam, Viet Minh, in 1941. Viet Minh forces seized teh northern Vietnamese city of Hanoi and declared a Democratic Stated of Vietnam with Ho as president. He would serve in that position for the next 25 years, becoming a symbol of Vietnam's struggle for unification during a long and costly conflict with the strongly anti-Communist regime in South Vietnam and its powerful ally, the U.S.]]> 2017-03-22 15:47:13 UTC https://padlet.com/1023165/lztqeg61dk5h/wish/161865815 1023165 https://padlet.com/1023165/lztqeg61dk5h/wish/161865972 In the spring of 1964, in a speech at the University of Michigan, Johnson lined his vision for America, calling it the Great America. America has spread across the continent, developed industrially, and created great wealth. But the work of America was not complete. The Great Society demanded "an end to poverty and racial injustice" and opportunity for every child. Under the Great Society legislation, programs such as health insurance, education, protecting environment, and a new immigration polices.]]> 2017-03-22 15:47:40 UTC https://padlet.com/1023165/lztqeg61dk5h/wish/161865972 1023165 https://padlet.com/1023165/lztqeg61dk5h/wish/161866046 Cuban leader (1926-2016) established the first communist state in the Western Hemisphere. Lead an overthrow of the military dictatorship of Fulgencio Batista in 1959. He ruled over Cuba for nearly five decades, until handing his power off to his younger brother. Castro's Cuba also had a highly antagonistic relationship with the United States most notably resulting in the Bay of Pigs and the Cuban Missile Crisis. The two nations officially normalized relations in July 2015.]]> 2017-03-22 15:47:52 UTC https://padlet.com/1023165/lztqeg61dk5h/wish/161866046 1023165 https://padlet.com/1023165/lztqeg61dk5h/wish/161866191 The 1960 Economic Opportunity Act created Job Corps to train young men and women between the ages of 16 and 21. For the purpose of work skills they need to acquire better jobs and move out of poverty. The act also established Volunteers in Service to America, or VISTA. Patterend after Kennedy's Peace Corpswhich sent American volunteers into overt-stricken American communities. In effort to solve the country's pressing economic, educational , and medical problem.]]> 2017-03-22 15:48:13 UTC https://padlet.com/1023165/lztqeg61dk5h/wish/161866191 1023165 https://padlet.com/1023165/lztqeg61dk5h/wish/161866340 Idea that a communist victory in one nation would quickly lead to a chain reaction of communist takeovers in neighboring states. The U.S used the domino theory to justify its support of a non-communist regime in South Vietnam against the communist government of North Vietnam. Which lead to a long-running Vietnam war. American failure to prevent a communist victory in Vietnam had much less of a global impact than had been assumed by the domino theory. ]]> 2017-03-22 15:48:39 UTC https://padlet.com/1023165/lztqeg61dk5h/wish/161866340 1023165 https://padlet.com/1023165/lztqeg61dk5h/wish/161866554 In August and September of 1962 U.S intelligence discovered that the Soviet were building nuclear missile sites in Cuba. It was apprently for protection for Castro against another U.S attack. When the sites were complete, major East Coast Cities and the Panama Canal would be in range of the missles. Kennedy demanded the removal of the missiles. But indicated that he would remove U.S missile in Turkey and Italy if the Soviets removed their missiles in Cuba. ]]> 2017-03-22 15:49:09 UTC https://padlet.com/1023165/lztqeg61dk5h/wish/161866554 1023165 https://padlet.com/1023165/lztqeg61dk5h/wish/161866747 Pressured by members of the CIA and his own aides, Kennedy decides to implant the plan. On April 17, 1961, a CIA-led force of Cuban exiles attack Cub in the Bay of Pigs Invasion. The plan was poorly managed with poor equipment and no protective cover. All but 300 out of 1,400 were killed or captured. Not only did the plan failed but it also stregnthened Castro's position in Cuba and turned many Cuban American against Kennedy.]]> 2017-03-22 15:49:35 UTC https://padlet.com/1023165/lztqeg61dk5h/wish/161866747 1023165 https://padlet.com/1023165/lztqeg61dk5h/wish/161866877 Promised to resurrect American's Good Neighbor policy toward Latin America. Many Latin American has grown resentful toward the U.S during the 1950's. Due to the fact that they had too much power over them so Kennedy hoped to change the view with this program. Promoted economic assistance to Latin America. But unfortunately, Alliamce for progress was not successful unlike the Peace Corps.]]> 2017-03-22 15:49:54 UTC https://padlet.com/1023165/lztqeg61dk5h/wish/161866877