Q4 Unit History Padlet- 8th Grade by Mrs. BW https://padlet.com/burnsk/rp2h4qv82gaa Big ideas from Quarter 4 by Mrs. Burns en-us 2014-10-06 13:36:46 UTC 2023-03-25 23:12:34 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f913.png War Games- A 1980's Cold War era movie! burnsk https://padlet.com/burnsk/rp2h4qv82gaa/wish/1369882836 High school student David Lightman (Matthew Broderick) unwittingly hacks into a military supercomputer while searching for new video games. After starting a game of Global Thermonuclear War, Lightman leads the supercomputer to activate the nation's nuclear arsenal in response to his simulated threat as the Soviet Union. Once the clueless hacker comes to his senses, Lightman, with help from his girlfriend (Ally Sheedy), must find a way to alert the authorities to stop the onset of World War III.]]> 2021-03-30 22:38:29 UTC https://padlet.com/burnsk/rp2h4qv82gaa/wish/1369882836 War Games burnsk https://padlet.com/burnsk/rp2h4qv82gaa/wish/1369887129 Spoiler alert! This is one of the last scenes of this movie depicting what might have happened... WWIII against the USSR!]]> 2021-03-30 22:41:30 UTC https://padlet.com/burnsk/rp2h4qv82gaa/wish/1369887129 The Berlin Wall- facts and logistics burnsk https://padlet.com/burnsk/rp2h4qv82gaa/wish/1369893575 From a National Geographic article I learned this: 
"The East Germans built a barrier of barbed wire and cinder blocks. They later built a more permanent structure of concrete walls topped with barbed wire. The wall was up to 15 feet (5 meters) high in some places. In other places there were electrified fences rather than concrete walls. By the 1980s the whole structure extended 28 miles (45 kilometers) through Berlin. It stretched a further 75 miles (120 kilometers) around West Berlin. West Berlin was therefore separated from the rest of East Germany.]]> 2021-03-30 22:45:35 UTC https://padlet.com/burnsk/rp2h4qv82gaa/wish/1369893575 Cold War- Political Cartoon burnsk https://padlet.com/burnsk/rp2h4qv82gaa/wish/1369898190 This Shows how neither the United States, nor the USSR, wanted to start nuclear war, and how they would fight with bow and arrows so they don't pressure the other side into war. The sign hanging on the front of the nuclear warheads on both sides says: "On no account to be used- because the enemy might retaliate" I think what the message of this cartoon is that nobody really wanted WWIII. ]]> 2021-03-30 22:48:45 UTC https://padlet.com/burnsk/rp2h4qv82gaa/wish/1369898190 Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain" Speech burnsk https://padlet.com/burnsk/rp2h4qv82gaa/wish/1369907275 I learned a lot about Winston Churchill's importance in the Unites States from this video that explained how he visited the Unites States and gave his "Iron Curtain" speech which was a basically a call-to-action to get America more involved in the fight against Communist growth. ]]> 2021-03-30 22:54:53 UTC https://padlet.com/burnsk/rp2h4qv82gaa/wish/1369907275 The Cuban Missile Crisis- 1961. burnsk https://padlet.com/burnsk/rp2h4qv82gaa/wish/1369911988 This content is coming soon! I thought I'd include it here since this event shows how dangerous the Cold War was!]]> 2021-03-30 22:58:09 UTC https://padlet.com/burnsk/rp2h4qv82gaa/wish/1369911988 Just a piece of the Wall burnsk https://padlet.com/burnsk/rp2h4qv82gaa/wish/1378930024 My student Gavan had a family member who has actual pieces of the Berlin Wall! He was gracious enough to take a photo of them and send them to me so I could include them on my Padlet. The color you see on the image is spray paint. Much of the wall in Germany was graffitied on over the years]]> 2021-04-02 23:51:31 UTC https://padlet.com/burnsk/rp2h4qv82gaa/wish/1378930024 Another piece of the Berlin Wall burnsk https://padlet.com/burnsk/rp2h4qv82gaa/wish/1378931922 2021-04-02 23:54:30 UTC https://padlet.com/burnsk/rp2h4qv82gaa/wish/1378931922 Another piece of the Berlin Wall burnsk https://padlet.com/burnsk/rp2h4qv82gaa/wish/1378932409 2021-04-02 23:55:15 UTC https://padlet.com/burnsk/rp2h4qv82gaa/wish/1378932409 NATO in the news (CNN10 Source) burnsk https://padlet.com/burnsk/rp2h4qv82gaa/wish/1381878895 2021-04-05 02:58:30 UTC https://padlet.com/burnsk/rp2h4qv82gaa/wish/1381878895 United Nations in the News (CNN10 Source) burnsk https://padlet.com/burnsk/rp2h4qv82gaa/wish/1381883356 New York Governor signs bill enacting restrictions on solitary confinement in state prisons and jails. 

"New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has signed a bill into law that will put restrictions on solitary confinement procedures in the state's prisons and jails, according to the governor's office.
The legislation, which was passed by the legislature on March 18, puts a 15-day limit on solitary confinement, making New York one of the first states to follow rules adopted by the United Nations known as the Nelson Mandela Rules, according to the New York Civil Liberties Union (NYCLU). It also bans solitary confinement outright for certain vulnerable populations."


Image Caption: A solitary confinement cell at New York's Rikers Island jail in 2016. Gov. Andrew Cuomo has signed legislation to end long-term solitary confinement in state prisons and jails.
]]> 2021-04-05 03:00:55 UTC https://padlet.com/burnsk/rp2h4qv82gaa/wish/1381883356 "Costs" of the Korean War burnsk https://padlet.com/burnsk/rp2h4qv82gaa/wish/1391154163 According to an article on PBS.org, the "costs" of the Korean War were extremely devastating.
"The human cost of the war was catastrophic. In the first month of their operation alone, the Strategic Air Command groups dropped 4,000 tons of bombs. Besides high explosives, the bombers used napalm. In retirement, Curtis LeMay described the devastation saying, "we eventually burned down every town in North Korea... and some in South Korea too. We even burned down [the South Korean city of] Pusan -- an accident, but we burned it down anyway." Estimates of the casualties vary widely, but there is reason to believe that besides the three and a half million military dead, wounded and missing on both sides, more than two million civilians died in North Korea. In the end the border dividing the two countries remained exactly where it had been before the North Korean invasion.
Image: With her brother on her back a war weary Korean girl tiredly trudges by a stalled M-26 tank, at Haengju, Korea. 6/9/1951, Library of Congress]]> 2021-04-07 12:43:49 UTC https://padlet.com/burnsk/rp2h4qv82gaa/wish/1391154163 M*A*S*H burnsk https://padlet.com/burnsk/rp2h4qv82gaa/wish/1392355404 M*A*S*H (an acronym for Mobile Army Surgical Hospital) is an American war comedy-drama television series
The series follows a team of doctors and support staff stationed at the "4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital" in Uijeongbu, South Korea, during the Korean War (1950–53). ]]> 2021-04-07 16:43:37 UTC https://padlet.com/burnsk/rp2h4qv82gaa/wish/1392355404 Heartbreak Ridge burnsk https://padlet.com/burnsk/rp2h4qv82gaa/wish/1392501773 This is another film made about the Korean War. The film was released in the United States on 5 December 1986. The story centers on a U.S. Marine nearing retirement who gets a platoon of undisciplined Marines into shape and leads them during the American invasion of Grenada in 1983.
The title comes from the Battle of Heartbreak Ridge in the Korean War where Eastwood's character had earned the Medal of Honor as a young soldier in the U.S. Army before he became a career Marine.

]]> 2021-04-07 17:13:36 UTC https://padlet.com/burnsk/rp2h4qv82gaa/wish/1392501773 Marilyn Monroe & celebrity advertising burnsk https://padlet.com/burnsk/rp2h4qv82gaa/wish/1435469346 We all know Monroe as a celebrity but did you know she also advertised tons of products in the 1950s? From Coca-Cola to soap to gasoline, Marilyn was a natural at selling goods. Advertising companies often portrayed her as a less than intelligent ditzy blond who used her looks to get what she wanted. This gasoline commercial is a very early example of Monroe's work in commercials. ]]> 2021-04-19 23:04:14 UTC https://padlet.com/burnsk/rp2h4qv82gaa/wish/1435469346 Grease Lightning! burnsk https://padlet.com/burnsk/rp2h4qv82gaa/wish/1435483467 If you Love musical movies like I do and you probably have seen the movie Grease which takes place in the 1950s. This movie is such a great example of the fashion, cars, and style from the 1950s. The boys in the movie emulate Elvis and the girls run around and poodle skirts. One of my favorite scenes in the movie is the boys working on tricking out their car. They dance around and sing about "Grease Lightning" which essentially is a fast car that's going to win a race that's going to win  bragging rights! 


]]> 2021-04-19 23:12:18 UTC https://padlet.com/burnsk/rp2h4qv82gaa/wish/1435483467 Faces of the Civil Rights movement burnsk https://padlet.com/burnsk/rp2h4qv82gaa/wish/1435491815 George McLaurin, the first black man admitted to the University of Oklahoma in 1948, (at the age of 61!) was forced to sit in a corner far from his white classmates. 

But his name remains on the honor roll as one of the three best students of the university. These are his words: "Some colleagues would look at me like I was an animal, no one would give me a word, the teachers seemed like they were not even there for me, nor did they always take my questions when I asked.  But I devoted myself so much that afterwards, they began to look for me to give them explanations and to clear their questions."
]]> 2021-04-19 23:16:40 UTC https://padlet.com/burnsk/rp2h4qv82gaa/wish/1435491815 Loving vs. Virginia burnsk https://padlet.com/burnsk/rp2h4qv82gaa/wish/1435501106 Loving v. Virginia, 388 U.S. 1 (1967), was a landmark civil rights decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that laws banning interracial marriage violate the Equal Protection and Due Process Clauses of the Fourteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
The case involved Mildred Loving, a woman of color,[note 1] and her white husband Richard Loving, who in 1958 were sentenced to a year in prison for marrying each other. Their marriage violated Virginia's Racial Integrity Act of 1924, which criminalized marriage between people classified as "white" and people classified as "colored". On June 12, 1967, the Supreme Court issued a unanimous decision in the Lovings' favor and overturned their convictions. Its decision struck down Virginia's anti-miscegenation law and ended all race-based legal restrictions on marriage in the United States.]]> 2021-04-19 23:21:29 UTC https://padlet.com/burnsk/rp2h4qv82gaa/wish/1435501106 "Loving" burnsk https://padlet.com/burnsk/rp2h4qv82gaa/wish/1435514204 The true story of Loving vs. Virginia was made into a movie in 2016. ]]> 2021-04-19 23:28:46 UTC https://padlet.com/burnsk/rp2h4qv82gaa/wish/1435514204