https://padlet.com/178595/mrbn8exzv9x0 Padlet on the cold war. en-us 2019-05-10 14:06:53 UTC 2019-05-13 21:35:55 UTC hello@padlet.com https://imgglb.padletcdn.com/v13/image?t=g_auto&url=https%3A%2F%2Fpadlet.net%2Ficons%2Fpng%2F1f1fa-1f1f8.png 178595 https://padlet.com/178595/mrbn8exzv9x0/wish/358897549 The House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) was created in 1938 to investigate alleged disloyalty and subversive activities on the part of private citizens, public employees, and those organizations suspected of having Communist ties. ]]> 2019-05-10 14:35:06 UTC https://padlet.com/178595/mrbn8exzv9x0/wish/358897549 178595 https://padlet.com/178595/mrbn8exzv9x0/wish/358903333 Americans were concerned about the spread of communism and they decided to check Hollywood actors, directors, and producers. They come to find more than 40 individuals involved with communism in some way. All but 10 decided to testify. Those 10 were named "The Hollywood 10"]]> 2019-05-10 14:47:48 UTC https://padlet.com/178595/mrbn8exzv9x0/wish/358903333 178595 https://padlet.com/178595/mrbn8exzv9x0/wish/358905853 Alger Hiss was an American government official who was accused of being a Soviet spy in 1948 and convicted of perjury in connection with this charge in 1950. Before he was tried and convicted, he was involved in the establishment of the United Nations both as a U.S. State Department official and as a U.N. official.]]> 2019-05-10 14:53:11 UTC https://padlet.com/178595/mrbn8exzv9x0/wish/358905853 178595 https://padlet.com/178595/mrbn8exzv9x0/wish/359676360 Rosenbergs convicted of espionage. In one of the most sensational trials in American history, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg are convicted of espionage for their role in passing atomic secrets to the Soviets during and after World War II. The husband and wife were later sentenced to death and were executed in 1953.]]> 2019-05-13 21:17:52 UTC https://padlet.com/178595/mrbn8exzv9x0/wish/359676360 178595 https://padlet.com/178595/mrbn8exzv9x0/wish/359677557 The fear of communism, known as the Red Scare, led to a national witch hunt for suspected communist supporters, which was known as McCarthyism. Learn about the rise of McCarthyism and the Red Scare, the impact of McCarthyism on American society and the legacy of the short-lived fear campaign]]> 2019-05-13 21:23:42 UTC https://padlet.com/178595/mrbn8exzv9x0/wish/359677557 178595 https://padlet.com/178595/mrbn8exzv9x0/wish/359678326 the United states got the H bomb 1 year before the USSR got it. The U.S got it NOV 1st 1952.
The USSR got it 1953.]]> 2019-05-13 21:27:36 UTC https://padlet.com/178595/mrbn8exzv9x0/wish/359678326 178595 https://padlet.com/178595/mrbn8exzv9x0/wish/359678327 hydrogen bomb is the more advanced version of an atomic bomb.An atomic bomb uses either uranium or plutonium and relies on fission, a nuclear reaction in which a nucleus or an atom breaks apart into two pieces.]]> 2019-05-13 21:27:36 UTC https://padlet.com/178595/mrbn8exzv9x0/wish/359678327 178595 https://padlet.com/178595/mrbn8exzv9x0/wish/359679714 On 1 May 1960, a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down by the Soviet Air Defense Forces while performing photographic aerial reconnaissance deep into Soviet territory. The single-seat aircraft, flown by pilot Francis Gary Powers, was hit by an S-75 Dvina surface-to-air missile and crashed near Sverdlovsk]]> 2019-05-13 21:35:20 UTC https://padlet.com/178595/mrbn8exzv9x0/wish/359679714