https://padlet.com/dunnnw/yegr2coovc1w66z8 en-us 2023-04-25 14:32:36 UTC 2026-02-02 20:24:35 UTC hello@padlet.com dunnnw https://padlet.com/dunnnw/yegr2coovc1w66z8/wish/2567361510 The Cold War began after the surrender of Nazi Germany in 1945, when the alliance between the United States and Great Britain and the USSR started to fall apart. The Cold War was a political war that lasted for about fourty-five years between the US and the USSR. The Truman Doctrine was the principle that the US should give support to countries or peoples threatened by Soviet forces, and the principle was seen by the Communists as an open declaration of the Cold War. The Cold War shaped American foreign policy and political ideology. The Cold War was the main reason the US was involved in the Vietnam War. The Cold War also resulted in anti-communist suspicions and led to the brink of nuclear disaster.]]> 2023-04-25 14:39:40 UTC https://padlet.com/dunnnw/yegr2coovc1w66z8/wish/2567361510 dunnnw https://padlet.com/dunnnw/yegr2coovc1w66z8/wish/2567388929  The U.S. Supreme Court delivered the unanimous ruling in the civil rights case Brown v. Board. Segregation of public schools was a violation of the 14th amendment and therefore unconstitutional. The only problem was that schools in the South were in no rush to desegregate the children. The Racial Segregation ruled unconstitutional in public schools was the beginning of the changes African Americans were wanting to become equal.  It also led the way to a growing understanding that all people, no matter thier race, gender, or disability, they  have a right to a public education. The ruling overruled the "separate but equal" principle set was set in the Plessy v. Ferguson case.]]> 2023-04-25 14:57:09 UTC https://padlet.com/dunnnw/yegr2coovc1w66z8/wish/2567388929 dunnnw https://padlet.com/dunnnw/yegr2coovc1w66z8/wish/2567389678 President Eisenhower sent around 700 military personnel as well as military to the government of South Vietnam. The American Military Assistance Advisory Group for South Vietnam was officially created to help train the armed forces of the Army of the Republic of Vietnam and provide military aid. President Eisenhower sent help because of the fear of Communism under Ho Chi Minh. This also is the official beginning of US involvement in the Vietnam War. This was the beginning of the US escalating it's involvement in the Vietnam War. Eisenhower's first necesity was to help Vietnam from being a Communist-country, because if Vietnam were to fall, people would look at Eisenhower as a failure.]]> 2023-04-25 14:57:34 UTC https://padlet.com/dunnnw/yegr2coovc1w66z8/wish/2567389678 dunnnw https://padlet.com/dunnnw/yegr2coovc1w66z8/wish/2567390211 The USSR launched the earth's first artificial satellite, Sputnik I. The satellite was 187 lbs of the size of a basketball. It was launched on a rocket and orbited Earth at 18,000 miles per hour for three months. Sputnik I is important to history because it became the first manmade object to orbit the Earth. The launch of Sputnik I was the beginning of the Space Race between US and USSR. As a result, the launch of Sputnik served to intensify the arms race and raise Cold War tensions. ]]> 2023-04-25 14:57:52 UTC https://padlet.com/dunnnw/yegr2coovc1w66z8/wish/2567390211 dunnnw https://padlet.com/dunnnw/yegr2coovc1w66z8/wish/2567390683 Explorer 1 is the first launched satellite by the United States to reach orbit. The satellite made one orbit every 114.8 minutes. The satellite itself was 80 inches long and 6.25 inches in diameter. Explorer 1 was a quick response to the Soviet Union's Sputnik 1. It was the first step in exploring Earth and beyond from space. Explorer 1 was the beginning of US's Space Age.]]> 2023-04-25 14:58:07 UTC https://padlet.com/dunnnw/yegr2coovc1w66z8/wish/2567390683 dunnnw https://padlet.com/dunnnw/yegr2coovc1w66z8/wish/2567391028 Ruby Bridges integrate an all-white elementary school in the South at age six.  On the first day, Ruby and her mother arrived with four U.S. marshals for protection. Ruby saw a massive crowd of people shouting, throwing things, and carrying signs as she approached the school.  This was important to history because she was the first African American to integrate into an all-white school. Ruby was one of the few African Americans who stood up for all the rights of African Americans and started to change the histroy. Ruby's bravery helped pave the way for Civil Rights action in the American South. ]]> 2023-04-25 14:58:22 UTC https://padlet.com/dunnnw/yegr2coovc1w66z8/wish/2567391028 dunnnw https://padlet.com/dunnnw/yegr2coovc1w66z8/wish/2567391346 An American U-2 spy plane secretly photographed nuclear missile sites being built by the Soviet Union on the island of Cuba. This was known as the Cuban Missile Crisis. This led to the U.S. attempting to quarantine Cuba from letting the USSR sending nuclear missiles to Cuba. The Cuban Missile Crisis is important to history because it was the closest the U.S. has ever gotten to a nuclear war. It was the hottest moment in the Cold War between U.S. and USSR. The Crisis was one of Kennedy's significant moments in his presidency and helped lessen the negative opinion on John F. Kennedy after the Bay of Pigs Invasion failing.]]> 2023-04-25 14:58:36 UTC https://padlet.com/dunnnw/yegr2coovc1w66z8/wish/2567391346 dunnnw https://padlet.com/dunnnw/yegr2coovc1w66z8/wish/2567391639 Martin Luther King Jr., delivered a speech to a massive group of civil rights marchers gathered around the Lincoln memorial in Washington DC. The "I have a Dream" speech influenced the Federal government to take more direct actions to more Civil Rights. The speech was spoken because it was to end economic and employment inequalities against African Americans. It was important to history because it was a call for equality and freedom. Today, people still look back at the "I Have a Dream" speech because Martin Luther King Jr. spoke in a very good manner without violence and it was heard by everyone in America. It became one of the defining moments of the civil rights movement and one of the most iconic speeches in American history.]]> 2023-04-25 14:58:49 UTC https://padlet.com/dunnnw/yegr2coovc1w66z8/wish/2567391639 dunnnw https://padlet.com/dunnnw/yegr2coovc1w66z8/wish/2567392084 John F. Kennedy wanted to seek support for New Frontier policies and with an eye on the 1964 elections, so he went to Dallas, Texas. While in Texas, John F. Kennedy was passing the Texas School Book Depository with his wife and the governor in an open-top convertable, when he was shot in the head and neck by Lee Harvey Oswald with his sniper rifle in the plaza. Later that day, Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn into office after the assassination of John F. Kennedy. The assassination traumatized the nation and led Congress to make a constitutional change, in the 25th amendment. The assassination impacted the country because they felt sympathy for his young family that did not have a dad anymore. Still today, there are still conspiracies about his assassination, whether if it really was lee Harvey Oswald or if there was someone bigger behind the scenes.]]> 2023-04-25 14:59:05 UTC https://padlet.com/dunnnw/yegr2coovc1w66z8/wish/2567392084 dunnnw https://padlet.com/dunnnw/yegr2coovc1w66z8/wish/2567392384 After Kennedy's assassination, he proposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. The rules of this civil rights act forbade discrimination on the basis of sex, as well as, race in hiring, promoting, and firing. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 is the nation's starting point of civil rights, and people still look back at it still today. The act led to greater social and economic mobility for African Americans. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 ended the Jim Crow laws.]]> 2023-04-25 14:59:20 UTC https://padlet.com/dunnnw/yegr2coovc1w66z8/wish/2567392384 dunnnw https://padlet.com/dunnnw/yegr2coovc1w66z8/wish/2567392886 The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was created by Congress because of the Gulf of Tonkin incident, where U.S. ships were supposedly attacked when conducting epionage missions in Gulf of Tonkin. The Resolution gave Lyndon B. Johnson full power to do what he thought necessary in Vietnam without having to go through Congress. The House vote was 416 - 0 and the Senate vote was 88-2. This is important to history because this is what led to escalation of US involvement in Vietnam and the point where the US made a large commitment. This also led to having 500,00 US troops in Vietnam, which meant Lyndon was not holding back. The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution made people think the next time they give full power to a president, because he might have the country in a long war.]]> 2023-04-25 14:59:42 UTC https://padlet.com/dunnnw/yegr2coovc1w66z8/wish/2567392886 dunnnw https://padlet.com/dunnnw/yegr2coovc1w66z8/wish/2567394155 The Tet Offensive was the North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong attacking South Vietam simultaneously. 67,000 troops attacked 100 cities, 12 bases, and the US embassy in Saigon. The U.S. and South Vietnamese militaries sustained heavy losses before finally repelling the communist assault.  The Tet Offensive impacted US history because after the battle, the public turn from Johnson's policy and persuade Johnson to not run for office again. The Tet Offensive was the beginning of the end of the Vietnam War. The Tet Offensive also changed the perspective of the Vietnam War and got the public realizing that the US were losing in the war.]]> 2023-04-25 15:00:40 UTC https://padlet.com/dunnnw/yegr2coovc1w66z8/wish/2567394155 dunnnw https://padlet.com/dunnnw/yegr2coovc1w66z8/wish/2567394545 Martin Luther King Jr. was shot dead while standing on a balcony outside at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. When the news got out that King died, there was racial violence and property damage in over 100 American cities. James Earl Ray confessed to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., and he was sentenced to a 99-year prison term. The assassination impacted America and its history because it triggered the Black Power Movement. Because of his assassination, President Ronald Reagan signed the King Holiday Bill into law, and every third monday in January is MLK day. Martin Luther King Jr. impacted all the lives of African Americans for standing up, being the leader of the civil rights movement, and doing it with non-violence.

]]> 2023-04-25 15:00:59 UTC https://padlet.com/dunnnw/yegr2coovc1w66z8/wish/2567394545 dunnnw https://padlet.com/dunnnw/yegr2coovc1w66z8/wish/2567395172 Eight years before this happened, President Kennedy's told the public that we were going to put a man on the moon before the decade is out. The mission of Apollo 11 was the American spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon. Commander Neil Armstrong and lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin landed the Apollo Lunar Module Eagle. This was a historical moment because Neil Armstrong and Edwin Buzz Aldrin became the 1st men to walk on the moon. It also helped US in the Space Race because USSR beat the United States in everything else but we ended the Race with a big victory by putting the 1st men on the moon. The moon landing taught everyone about the composition of the moon and it gave us the first perspective of the Earth from Space.]]> 2023-04-25 15:01:22 UTC https://padlet.com/dunnnw/yegr2coovc1w66z8/wish/2567395172 dunnnw https://padlet.com/dunnnw/yegr2coovc1w66z8/wish/2567395579 He announced his decision to launch American forces into Cambodia with the special objective of capturing the headquarters of the entire communist military operation in South Vietnam. The announcement that U.S. and South Vietnamese troops had invaded Cambodia resulted in protests. The public was mad at Nixon because he ordered an invasion on Cambodia and Nixon not going through Congress. This is important to history because the Congress took down the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution because Nixon ordered an invasion in Cambodia. This decision expanded the war for another 3 years in Vietnam. The effect of Nixon announcing the invasion, was that it gave the Antiwar Movement a new reason to protest.]]> 2023-04-25 15:01:40 UTC https://padlet.com/dunnnw/yegr2coovc1w66z8/wish/2567395579 dunnnw https://padlet.com/dunnnw/yegr2coovc1w66z8/wish/2567396013 The last U.S. troops left South Vietnam, ending US involvement in the Vietnam War. Military advisers remained, and so did Marines protecting U.S. installations, and thousands of Defense Department civilians. The Vietnam War continued for another 2 years until North Vietnam took down Siagon and renamed the city, Ho Chi Minh City. This was important to history because this was the day the soldiers were finally able to come home after a 20 year war. When the veterans came back a lot of them suffered from many mental desorders especially PTSD. The withdraw of our troops from Vietnam was significant because it meant we lost and the Vietnam War was the biggest defeat the US has had.]]> 2023-04-25 15:02:01 UTC https://padlet.com/dunnnw/yegr2coovc1w66z8/wish/2567396013 dunnnw https://padlet.com/dunnnw/yegr2coovc1w66z8/wish/2567396296 Days before his resignation, Supreme Court forces Nixon to turn over un edited tapes of his recordings of White House conversations. One of the tapes revealed that Nixon ordered a cover-up to the Watergate incident. Before Nixon could be impeached, he resigned from office, and Gerald Ford took his place. The impact of his resignation changed the minds of the public and had deep distrust against the government. His resignation showed complete humiliation of a president. The resignation also made Nixon as the only president to resign from office.]]> 2023-04-25 15:02:16 UTC https://padlet.com/dunnnw/yegr2coovc1w66z8/wish/2567396296