https://padlet.com/hnguyen113/ze9wqqukptc0h2t3 "We are not makers of history. We are made by history." -Martin Luther King, Jr- en-us 2022-06-01 15:04:58 UTC 2022-06-03 05:43:44 UTC hello@padlet.com hnguyen113 https://padlet.com/hnguyen113/ze9wqqukptc0h2t3/wish/2207672331 The United Nations is an international organization founded in 1945 after the Second World War by 51 countries committed to maintaining international peace and security, developing friendly relations among nations and promoting social progress, better living standards and human rights.

]]> 2022-06-01 15:23:25 UTC https://padlet.com/hnguyen113/ze9wqqukptc0h2t3/wish/2207672331 hnguyen113 https://padlet.com/hnguyen113/ze9wqqukptc0h2t3/wish/2207679622 Iron Curtain speech, speech delivered by former British prime minister Winston Churchill in Fulton, Missouri, on March 5, 1946, in which he stressed the necessity for the United States and Britain to act as the guardians of peace and stability against the menace of Soviet communism, which had lowered an “iron curtain” across Europe. ]]> 2022-06-01 15:28:55 UTC https://padlet.com/hnguyen113/ze9wqqukptc0h2t3/wish/2207679622 hnguyen113 https://padlet.com/hnguyen113/ze9wqqukptc0h2t3/wish/2207682547 The Marshall Plan, also known as the European Recovery Program, was a U.S. program providing aid to Western Europe following the devastation of World War II. It was enacted in 1948 and provided more than $15 billion to help finance rebuilding efforts on the continent.]]> 2022-06-01 15:30:49 UTC https://padlet.com/hnguyen113/ze9wqqukptc0h2t3/wish/2207682547 hnguyen113 https://padlet.com/hnguyen113/ze9wqqukptc0h2t3/wish/2207685459 The Berlin Blockade was an attempt in 1948 by the Soviet Union to limit the ability of the United States, Great Britain and France to travel to their sectors of Berlin, which lay within Russian-occupied East Germany]]> 2022-06-01 15:33:02 UTC https://padlet.com/hnguyen113/ze9wqqukptc0h2t3/wish/2207685459 hnguyen113 https://padlet.com/hnguyen113/ze9wqqukptc0h2t3/wish/2207691084 The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) formed in 1949 with the signing of the Washington Treaty, NATO is a security alliance of 30 countries from North America and Europe. NATO's fundamental goal is to safeguard the Allies' freedom and security by political and military means. NATO was the first peacetime military alliance the United States entered into outside of the Western Hemisphere.]]> 2022-06-01 15:37:02 UTC https://padlet.com/hnguyen113/ze9wqqukptc0h2t3/wish/2207691084 hnguyen113 https://padlet.com/hnguyen113/ze9wqqukptc0h2t3/wish/2207697226 On October 1, 1949, Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong declared the creation of the People’s Republic of China (PRC). The announcement ended the costly full-scale civil war between the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the Nationalist Party, or Kuomintang (KMT), which broke out immediately following World War II and had been preceded by on and off conflict between the two sides since the 1920’s. ]]> 2022-06-01 15:42:04 UTC https://padlet.com/hnguyen113/ze9wqqukptc0h2t3/wish/2207697226 hnguyen113 https://padlet.com/hnguyen113/ze9wqqukptc0h2t3/wish/2207700252 The Korean war began on June 25, 1950, when some 75,000 soldiers from the North Korean People’s Army poured across the 38th parallel, the boundary between the Soviet-backed Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to the north and the pro-Western Republic of Korea to the south. This invasion was the first military action of the Cold War. By July, American troops had entered the war on South Korea’s behalf. As far as American officials were concerned, it was a war against the forces of international communism itself.]]> 2022-06-01 15:44:02 UTC https://padlet.com/hnguyen113/ze9wqqukptc0h2t3/wish/2207700252 hnguyen113 https://padlet.com/hnguyen113/ze9wqqukptc0h2t3/wish/2207707274 Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka was a landmark 1954 Supreme Court case in which the justices ruled unanimously that racial segregation of children in public schools was unconstitutional. Brown v. Board of Education was one of the cornerstones of the civil rights movement, and helped establish the precedent that “separate-but-equal” education and other services were not, in fact, equal at all.]]> 2022-06-01 15:49:25 UTC https://padlet.com/hnguyen113/ze9wqqukptc0h2t3/wish/2207707274 hnguyen113 https://padlet.com/hnguyen113/ze9wqqukptc0h2t3/wish/2208442310 The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a civil rights protest during which African Americans refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to protest segregated seating. The boycott took place from December 5, 1955, to December 20, 1956, and is regarded as the first large-scale U.S. demonstration against segregation. ]]> 2022-06-02 04:39:21 UTC https://padlet.com/hnguyen113/ze9wqqukptc0h2t3/wish/2208442310 hnguyen113 https://padlet.com/hnguyen113/ze9wqqukptc0h2t3/wish/2208444046 The Suez Crisis began on October 29, 1956, when Israeli armed forces pushed into Egypt toward the Suez Canal after Egyptian president Gamal Abdel Nasser (1918-70) nationalized the canal, a valuable waterway that controlled two-thirds of the oil used by Europe. The Israelis were soon joined by French and British forces, which nearly brought the Soviet Union into the conflict and damaged their relationships with the United States. In the end, Egypt emerged victorious, and the British, French and Israeli governments withdrew their troops in late 1956 and early 1957. The event was a pivotal event among Cold War superpowers.]]> 2022-06-02 04:41:07 UTC https://padlet.com/hnguyen113/ze9wqqukptc0h2t3/wish/2208444046 hnguyen113 https://padlet.com/hnguyen113/ze9wqqukptc0h2t3/wish/2208446888 The Soviet Union inaugurates the “Space Age” with its launch of Sputnik, the world’s first artificial satellite, on October 4, 1957. The spacecraft, named Sputnik after the Russian word for “fellow traveler,” was launched at 10:29 p.m. Moscow time from the Tyuratam launch base in the Kazakh Republic. ]]> 2022-06-02 04:43:36 UTC https://padlet.com/hnguyen113/ze9wqqukptc0h2t3/wish/2208446888 hnguyen113 https://padlet.com/hnguyen113/ze9wqqukptc0h2t3/wish/2208449105 With the goal of redeeming “the soul of America” through nonviolent resistance, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) was established in 1957 to coordinate the action of local protest groups throughout the South. Under the leadership of Martin Luther King, Jr., the organization drew on the power and independence of black churches to support its activities. ]]> 2022-06-02 04:45:38 UTC https://padlet.com/hnguyen113/ze9wqqukptc0h2t3/wish/2208449105 hnguyen113 https://padlet.com/hnguyen113/ze9wqqukptc0h2t3/wish/2208451513 The Bay of Pigs Invasion in April 1961 was a failed attack launched by the CIA during the Kennedy administration to push Cuban leader Fidel Castro (1926-2016) from power.]]> 2022-06-02 04:47:41 UTC https://padlet.com/hnguyen113/ze9wqqukptc0h2t3/wish/2208451513 hnguyen113 https://padlet.com/hnguyen113/ze9wqqukptc0h2t3/wish/2208452642 On August 13, 1961, the Communist government of the German Democratic Republic (GDR, or East Germany) began to build a barbed wire and concrete “Antifascistischer Schutzwall,” or “antifascist bulwark,” between East and West Berlin. The official purpose of this Berlin Wall was to keep so-called Western “fascists” from entering East Germany and undermining the socialist state, but it primarily served the objective of stemming mass defections from East to West.]]> 2022-06-02 04:48:48 UTC https://padlet.com/hnguyen113/ze9wqqukptc0h2t3/wish/2208452642 hnguyen113 https://padlet.com/hnguyen113/ze9wqqukptc0h2t3/wish/2208454437 Freedom Riders were groups of white and African American civil rights activists who participated in Freedom Rides, bus trips through the American South in 1961 to protest segregated bus terminals. Freedom Riders tried to use “whites-only” restrooms and lunch counters at bus stations in Alabama, South Carolina and other Southern states. The groups were confronted by arresting police officers—as well as horrific violence from white protestors—along their routes, but also drew international attention to the civil rights movement.]]> 2022-06-02 04:50:42 UTC https://padlet.com/hnguyen113/ze9wqqukptc0h2t3/wish/2208454437 hnguyen113 https://padlet.com/hnguyen113/ze9wqqukptc0h2t3/wish/2208457581 The Vietnam War was a long, costly and divisive conflict that pitted the communist government of North Vietnam against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. The conflict was intensified by the ongoing Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union. More than 3 million people were killed in the Vietnam War, and more than half of the dead were Vietnamese civilians. ]]> 2022-06-02 04:53:56 UTC https://padlet.com/hnguyen113/ze9wqqukptc0h2t3/wish/2208457581 hnguyen113 https://padlet.com/hnguyen113/ze9wqqukptc0h2t3/wish/2208468399 The Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 was a direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and was the moment when the two superpowers came closest to nuclear conflict. ]]> 2022-06-02 05:05:00 UTC https://padlet.com/hnguyen113/ze9wqqukptc0h2t3/wish/2208468399 hnguyen113 https://padlet.com/hnguyen113/ze9wqqukptc0h2t3/wish/2208471017 In 1962, the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA), a predecessor of the United Farm Workers (UFW), was founded in Delano, California. Cesar Chávez, alongside Dolores Huerta and other Chicano activists within this organization, defended the rights of farmworkers by employing nonviolent organizing tactics rooted in Catholic social teaching, Chicano identity, and civil rights rhetoric. Through a series of marches, national consumer boycotts, and fasts, the United Farm Workers union attracted national headlines, gained labor contracts with higher wages and improved working conditions, galvanizing the Chicano movement.]]> 2022-06-02 05:07:34 UTC https://padlet.com/hnguyen113/ze9wqqukptc0h2t3/wish/2208471017 hnguyen113 https://padlet.com/hnguyen113/ze9wqqukptc0h2t3/wish/2209374794 John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, is assassinated while traveling through Dallas, Texas, in an open-top convertible. As their vehicle passed the Texas School Book Depository Building at 12:30 p.m, Lee Harvey Oswald allegedly fired three shots from the sixth floor, fatally wounding President Kennedy and seriously injuring Governor Connally. Kennedy was pronounced dead 30 minutes later at Dallas’ Parkland Hospital. ]]> 2022-06-02 19:42:32 UTC https://padlet.com/hnguyen113/ze9wqqukptc0h2t3/wish/2209374794 hnguyen113 https://padlet.com/hnguyen113/ze9wqqukptc0h2t3/wish/2209375845 The March on Washington was a massive protest march that occurred in August 1963, when some 250,000 people gathered in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. The event aimed to draw attention to continuing challenges and inequalities faced by African Americans a century after emancipation.]]> 2022-06-02 19:43:53 UTC https://padlet.com/hnguyen113/ze9wqqukptc0h2t3/wish/2209375845 hnguyen113 https://padlet.com/hnguyen113/ze9wqqukptc0h2t3/wish/2209377027 Though perhaps not the typical housewife—she had been involved in radical politics from a young age and had a degree in psychology from Smith College—Betty Friedan is often credited as the first to give voice to the suffering of millions of seemingly content American women. Her book, The Feminine Mystique, published on February 19, 1963, shook the ground beneath an American society rooted in a myth of pleasant domesticity and supported by the physical and emotional labor of women.]]> 2022-06-02 19:45:40 UTC https://padlet.com/hnguyen113/ze9wqqukptc0h2t3/wish/2209377027 hnguyen113 https://padlet.com/hnguyen113/ze9wqqukptc0h2t3/wish/2209379079  In 1964, Congress passed Public Law 88-352. The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex or national origin. Provisions of this civil rights act forbade discrimination on the basis of sex, as well as, race in hiring, promoting, and firing. The Act prohibited discrimination in public accommodations and federally funded programs. It also strengthened the enforcement of voting rights and the desegregation of schools.]]> 2022-06-02 19:48:38 UTC https://padlet.com/hnguyen113/ze9wqqukptc0h2t3/wish/2209379079 hnguyen113 https://padlet.com/hnguyen113/ze9wqqukptc0h2t3/wish/2209379858 The Voting Rights Act of 1965, signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson, aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote as guaranteed under the 15th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The Voting Rights Act is considered one of the most far-reaching pieces of civil rights legislation in U.S. history.]]> 2022-06-02 19:49:47 UTC https://padlet.com/hnguyen113/ze9wqqukptc0h2t3/wish/2209379858 hnguyen113 https://padlet.com/hnguyen113/ze9wqqukptc0h2t3/wish/2209382047 The Tet Offensive was a coordinated series of North Vietnamese attacks on more than 100 cities and outposts in South Vietnam. The offensive was an attempt to foment rebellion among the South Vietnamese population and encourage the United States to scale back its involvement in the Vietnam War. Though U.S. and South Vietnamese forces managed to hold off the attacks, news coverage of the massive offensive shocked the American public and eroded support for the war effort. Despite heavy casualties, North Vietnam achieved a strategic victory with the Tet Offensive, as the attacks marked a turning point in the Vietnam War and the beginning of the slow, painful American withdrawal from the region.]]> 2022-06-02 19:52:38 UTC https://padlet.com/hnguyen113/ze9wqqukptc0h2t3/wish/2209382047 hnguyen113 https://padlet.com/hnguyen113/ze9wqqukptc0h2t3/wish/2209384313 The Occupation of Alcatraz (November 20, 1969 – June 11, 1971) was a 19-month long protest when 89 Native Americans and their supporters occupied Alcatraz Island. The protest was led by Richard Oakes, LaNada Means, and others, while John Trudell served as spokesman. The group lived on the island together until the protest was forcibly ended by the U.S. government.]]> 2022-06-02 19:55:44 UTC https://padlet.com/hnguyen113/ze9wqqukptc0h2t3/wish/2209384313 hnguyen113 https://padlet.com/hnguyen113/ze9wqqukptc0h2t3/wish/2209386062 The Stonewall Riots, also called the Stonewall Uprising, began in the early hours of June 28, 1969 when New York City police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay club located in Greenwich Village in New York City. The raid sparked a riot among bar patrons and neighborhood residents as police roughly hauled employees and patrons out of the bar, leading to six days of protests and violent clashes with law enforcement outside the bar on Christopher Street, in neighboring streets and in nearby Christopher Park. The Stonewall Riots served as a catalyst for the gay rights movement in the United States and around the world.]]> 2022-06-02 19:58:05 UTC https://padlet.com/hnguyen113/ze9wqqukptc0h2t3/wish/2209386062 hnguyen113 https://padlet.com/hnguyen113/ze9wqqukptc0h2t3/wish/2209387199 Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 (Title IX) prohibits sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, and gender identity) discrimination in any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance.]]> 2022-06-02 19:59:33 UTC https://padlet.com/hnguyen113/ze9wqqukptc0h2t3/wish/2209387199 hnguyen113 https://padlet.com/hnguyen113/ze9wqqukptc0h2t3/wish/2209388783 The Watergate scandal began early in the morning of June 17, 1972, when several burglars were arrested in the office of the Democratic National Committee, located in the Watergate complex of buildings in Washington, D.C. This was no ordinary robbery: The prowlers were connected to President Richard Nixon’s reelection campaign, and they had been caught wiretapping phones and stealing documents. Nixon took aggressive steps to cover up the crimes, but when Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein revealed his role in the conspiracy, Nixon resigned on August 9, 1974. The Watergate scandal changed American politics forever, leading many Americans to question their leaders and think more critically about the presidency.]]> 2022-06-02 20:01:40 UTC https://padlet.com/hnguyen113/ze9wqqukptc0h2t3/wish/2209388783 hnguyen113 https://padlet.com/hnguyen113/ze9wqqukptc0h2t3/wish/2209390649 Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973) was a landmark decision of the U.S. Supreme Court in which the Court ruled that the Constitution of the United States protects a pregnant woman's liberty to choose to have an abortion without excessive government restriction. The decision struck down many U.S. federal and state abortion laws. Roe fueled an ongoing abortion debate in the United States about whether, or to what extent, abortion should be legal, who should decide the legality of abortion, and what the role of moral and religious views in the political sphere should be. It also shaped debate concerning which methods the Supreme Court should use in constitutional adjudication.]]> 2022-06-02 20:03:45 UTC https://padlet.com/hnguyen113/ze9wqqukptc0h2t3/wish/2209390649 hnguyen113 https://padlet.com/hnguyen113/ze9wqqukptc0h2t3/wish/2209391815 The House Judiciary Committee approved three articles of impeachment against Nixon for obstruction of justice, abuse of power, and contempt of Congress. With his complicity in the cover-up made public and his political support completely eroded, Nixon resigned from office on August 9, 1974.]]> 2022-06-02 20:05:20 UTC https://padlet.com/hnguyen113/ze9wqqukptc0h2t3/wish/2209391815 hnguyen113 https://padlet.com/hnguyen113/ze9wqqukptc0h2t3/wish/2209393021 On September 11, 2001, 19 militants associated with the Islamic extremist group al Qaeda hijacked four airplanes and carried out suicide attacks against targets in the United States. Two of the planes were flown into the twin towers of the World Trade Center in New York City, a third plane hit the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, just outside Washington, D.C., and the fourth plane crashed in a field in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. Almost 3,000 people were killed during the 9/11 terrorist attacks, which triggered major U.S. initiatives to combat terrorism and defined the presidency of George W. Bush.]]> 2022-06-02 20:06:53 UTC https://padlet.com/hnguyen113/ze9wqqukptc0h2t3/wish/2209393021 hnguyen113 https://padlet.com/hnguyen113/ze9wqqukptc0h2t3/wish/2209396543 The United States' Apollo 11 was the first crewed mission to land on the Moon, on 20 July 1969. There were six crewed U.S. landings between 1969 and 1972, and numerous uncrewed landings, with no soft landings happening between 22 August 1976 and 14 December 2013. ]]> 2022-06-02 20:11:45 UTC https://padlet.com/hnguyen113/ze9wqqukptc0h2t3/wish/2209396543 hnguyen113 https://padlet.com/hnguyen113/ze9wqqukptc0h2t3/wish/2209401822 In February 1950, Senator Joseph McCarthy gave a famous speech in Wheeling, West Virginia, promising to name communists in the US government and touched a national nerve. In August, Congress passed the Internal Security Act over President Truman’s veto. Also known as the McCarran Act, it strengthened laws against espionage, allowed investigation and deportation of immigrants who were suspected of subversive activities, and allowed the limitation of free speech for national security reasons. In 1993, sections of the act were ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court.]]> 2022-06-02 20:19:13 UTC https://padlet.com/hnguyen113/ze9wqqukptc0h2t3/wish/2209401822 hnguyen113 https://padlet.com/hnguyen113/ze9wqqukptc0h2t3/wish/2209403388 In 1965, President Johnson authorized Operation Rolling Thunder, a sustained series of air strikes on North Vietnam that lasted until November 1968. On March 8, 1965, the first American combat troops entered South Vietnam.]]> 2022-06-02 20:21:20 UTC https://padlet.com/hnguyen113/ze9wqqukptc0h2t3/wish/2209403388 hnguyen113 https://padlet.com/hnguyen113/ze9wqqukptc0h2t3/wish/2209404894 Four white police officers on trial in Los Angeles for the brutal videotaped beating of an African American man, Rodney King, received verdicts in the case. One was convicted of excessive force and the other three were cleared of all charges. The verdicts prompted three days of riots throughout Los Angeles, during which more than fifty people were killed, four thousand injured, and twelve thousand arrested.]]> 2022-06-02 20:23:18 UTC https://padlet.com/hnguyen113/ze9wqqukptc0h2t3/wish/2209404894 hnguyen113 https://padlet.com/hnguyen113/ze9wqqukptc0h2t3/wish/2209406028 President Bush ordered an attack on Baghdad with the intent of eliminating Saddam Hussein and his government. On May 1, 2003, Bush declared the war over and “Mission Accomplished.” The conflict continued in Iraq and was followed by questions from Congress and the American public about the validity of the administration’s original reasons for the war.]]> 2022-06-02 20:24:51 UTC https://padlet.com/hnguyen113/ze9wqqukptc0h2t3/wish/2209406028 hnguyen113 https://padlet.com/hnguyen113/ze9wqqukptc0h2t3/wish/2209407108 Built as a divider between East and West Berlin by the Communist East German government in 1961, the Berlin Wall was torn down to widespread celebration on November 9, 1989. The destruction of the wall signified the fall of the “Iron Curtain” and symbolized the end of the Cold War.]]> 2022-06-02 20:26:32 UTC https://padlet.com/hnguyen113/ze9wqqukptc0h2t3/wish/2209407108 hnguyen113 https://padlet.com/hnguyen113/ze9wqqukptc0h2t3/wish/2209409520 The Twenty-sixth Amendment to the US Constitution was ratified in 1971, granting the right to vote to any citizen at least eighteen years of age.]]> 2022-06-02 20:29:51 UTC https://padlet.com/hnguyen113/ze9wqqukptc0h2t3/wish/2209409520 hnguyen113 https://padlet.com/hnguyen113/ze9wqqukptc0h2t3/wish/2209410904 The “Agreement on Ending the War and Restoring Peace in Vietnam” was signed in Paris. The agreement did not, however, actually restore peace; it only ended US military involvement in Vietnam and temporarily stopped the fighting between the North and the South. Though the agreement allowed the United States to withdraw, fighting between the Vietnamese continued until North Vietnam captured Saigon in 1975.]]> 2022-06-02 20:32:04 UTC https://padlet.com/hnguyen113/ze9wqqukptc0h2t3/wish/2209410904 hnguyen113 https://padlet.com/hnguyen113/ze9wqqukptc0h2t3/wish/2209414153 The Soviet Union collapses with Gorbachev’s resignation in December 1991. The Commonwealth of Independent States, a weak confederation of former Soviet republics, takes its place. Led by Boris Yeltsin, the Commonwealth allows for independence and autonomy of its member countries.]]> 2022-06-02 20:35:51 UTC https://padlet.com/hnguyen113/ze9wqqukptc0h2t3/wish/2209414153