https://padlet.com/zingha98/xfva5mpe0x37 Made with a curious mind en-us 2017-03-29 12:11:28 UTC 2017-03-29 12:40:50 UTC hello@padlet.com zingha98 https://padlet.com/zingha98/xfva5mpe0x37/wish/163388134 Containment was a United States policy using numerous strategies to prevent the spread of communism abroad.

]]> 2017-03-29 12:11:45 UTC https://padlet.com/zingha98/xfva5mpe0x37/wish/163388134 zingha98 https://padlet.com/zingha98/xfva5mpe0x37/wish/163388296 The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy created to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. 

]]> 2017-03-29 12:12:18 UTC https://padlet.com/zingha98/xfva5mpe0x37/wish/163388296 zingha98 https://padlet.com/zingha98/xfva5mpe0x37/wish/163388496 The Marshall Plan, also known as the European Recovery Program, channeled over $13 billion to finance the economic recovery of Europe between 1948 and 1951. The Marshall Plan successfully sparked economic recovery, meeting its objective of ‘restoring the confidence of the nation

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The Berlin Airlift, 1948–1949. At the end of the Second World War, U.S., British, and Soviet military forces divided and occupied Germany. ]]> 2017-03-29 12:13:58 UTC https://padlet.com/zingha98/xfva5mpe0x37/wish/163388684 zingha98 https://padlet.com/zingha98/xfva5mpe0x37/wish/163388795 The Berlin Wall (German: Berliner Mauer) was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989.

]]> 2017-03-29 12:14:27 UTC https://padlet.com/zingha98/xfva5mpe0x37/wish/163388795 zingha98 https://padlet.com/zingha98/xfva5mpe0x37/wish/163388952 McCarthyism is the practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence.

]]> 2017-03-29 12:15:06 UTC https://padlet.com/zingha98/xfva5mpe0x37/wish/163388952 zingha98 https://padlet.com/zingha98/xfva5mpe0x37/wish/163389089 The second Red Scare refers to the fear of communism that permeated American politics, culture, and society from the late 1940s through the 1950s, during the opening phases of the Cold War with the Soviet Union.

]]> 2017-03-29 12:15:37 UTC https://padlet.com/zingha98/xfva5mpe0x37/wish/163389089 zingha98 https://padlet.com/zingha98/xfva5mpe0x37/wish/163389557 A bomb shelter is any kind of a civil defense structure designed to provide protection against the effects of a bomb.

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The Korean War began when North Korea invaded South Korea.]]> 2017-03-29 12:17:55 UTC https://padlet.com/zingha98/xfva5mpe0x37/wish/163389685 zingha98 https://padlet.com/zingha98/xfva5mpe0x37/wish/163389826 The Bay of Pigs invasion begins when a CIA-financed and -trained group of Cuban refugees lands in Cuba and attempts to topple the communist government of Fidel Castro.

]]> 2017-03-29 12:18:27 UTC https://padlet.com/zingha98/xfva5mpe0x37/wish/163389826 zingha98 https://padlet.com/zingha98/xfva5mpe0x37/wish/163390006 The GI Bill provides educational assistance to servicemembers, veterans, and their dependents.

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Suburbanization is a population shift from central urban areas into suburbs, resulting in formation of (sub)urban sprawl. ]]> 2017-03-29 12:19:42 UTC https://padlet.com/zingha98/xfva5mpe0x37/wish/163390185 zingha98 https://padlet.com/zingha98/xfva5mpe0x37/wish/163390333 the move of white city-dwellers to the suburbs to escape the influx of minorities.

]]> 2017-03-29 12:20:22 UTC https://padlet.com/zingha98/xfva5mpe0x37/wish/163390333 zingha98 https://padlet.com/zingha98/xfva5mpe0x37/wish/163390487 by the 1960s, decades of racial, economic, and political forces, which generated inner city poverty, resulted in "race riots" within minority areas in cities across the United States. 

]]> 2017-03-29 12:20:52 UTC https://padlet.com/zingha98/xfva5mpe0x37/wish/163390487 zingha98 https://padlet.com/zingha98/xfva5mpe0x37/wish/163390660 The Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956, popularly known as theNational Interstate and Defense Highways Act (Public Law 84-627), was enacted on June 29, 1956, when President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the bill into law.

]]> 2017-03-29 12:21:31 UTC https://padlet.com/zingha98/xfva5mpe0x37/wish/163390660 zingha98 https://padlet.com/zingha98/xfva5mpe0x37/wish/163390782 The Eisenhower Doctrine was a policy enunciated by President Dwight David Eisenhower on 5 January 1957, within a "Special Message to the Congress

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The Space Race was a 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States (US), for supremacy in spaceflight capability.]]> 2017-03-29 12:23:10 UTC https://padlet.com/zingha98/xfva5mpe0x37/wish/163391139 zingha98 https://padlet.com/zingha98/xfva5mpe0x37/wish/163391345 Sputnik and The Dawn of the Space Age. History changed on October 4, 1957, when the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik I.

]]> 2017-03-29 12:23:52 UTC https://padlet.com/zingha98/xfva5mpe0x37/wish/163391345 zingha98 https://padlet.com/zingha98/xfva5mpe0x37/wish/163391380 The nuclear arms race was a competition for supremacy in nuclear warfare between the United States, the Soviet Union, and their respective allies during the Cold War.

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