https://padlet.com/mchristophi/zm30b1cwyb8iqgwu Made with pain en-us 2022-06-01 19:32:26 UTC 2025-04-26 20:03:43 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f614.png mchristophi https://padlet.com/mchristophi/zm30b1cwyb8iqgwu/wish/2207960981 Before the US was called the US it was named the thirteen colonies or the United Nations. The United Nations was an international organization founded in 1945 after the Second World War by 51 countries. Their purpose was to maintain international peace and security, making friendly relations with other nations,  promoting social progress, and making better living standards for human rights. Continuing down the line, before the US was owned by the people that created it, people from Spain had conquered the land. The United States of America was created on July 4, 1776 where the United Nations were born as well. The people responsible for creating the United States were: John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Washington. ]]> 2022-06-01 19:38:17 UTC https://padlet.com/mchristophi/zm30b1cwyb8iqgwu/wish/2207960981 mchristophi https://padlet.com/mchristophi/zm30b1cwyb8iqgwu/wish/2207961861 The Marshall Plan was a U.S. program providing aid to Western Europe after the devastation casued by World War II. This plan had taken place in 1948 which provided more than $15 billion in order to help finance for reconstructing efforts. Not only did they want to rebuild everything that was destroyed, but they also wanted to help modernize the economy, and minimize trade barriers.]]> 2022-06-01 19:39:16 UTC https://padlet.com/mchristophi/zm30b1cwyb8iqgwu/wish/2207961861 mchristophi https://padlet.com/mchristophi/zm30b1cwyb8iqgwu/wish/2207962168 On October 1, 1949, the Chinese Communist leader, Mao Zedong, announced the creation of the People's Republic of China. Not only were things created, but they were torn down as well. The communist Revolution dealt with millions of peasants and workers rising up to overthrow the landlords and capitalists. When thing started to go haywire, the revolutionary Chinese masses took matters into their own hands. Many peasants and workers, who were exploited by the landlords and capitalists, threw off the humiliating yoke of imperialism and capitalism.]]> 2022-06-01 19:39:41 UTC https://padlet.com/mchristophi/zm30b1cwyb8iqgwu/wish/2207962168 sward141 https://padlet.com/mchristophi/zm30b1cwyb8iqgwu/wish/2207962464 The people who created NATO were from, the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations in order to provide collective security against the Soviet Union. NATO polotically promotes democratic values and enables members to consult and cooperate in defensive and security related issues to solve problems and do their best to prevent conflicts from occurring. In the military sense, NATO is meant to creat peace and destroy any issue that arises. ]]> 2022-06-01 19:40:06 UTC https://padlet.com/mchristophi/zm30b1cwyb8iqgwu/wish/2207962464 mchristophi https://padlet.com/mchristophi/zm30b1cwyb8iqgwu/wish/2207963765 The 1948 Berlin Blockade was when the Soviet Union attempted to limit the ability that the US, Great Britain, and France had in order to travel their other sectors. ]]> 2022-06-01 19:41:42 UTC https://padlet.com/mchristophi/zm30b1cwyb8iqgwu/wish/2207963765 mchristophi https://padlet.com/mchristophi/zm30b1cwyb8iqgwu/wish/2207964939 The Korean war began on June 25, 1950. This war dealt with the Cold War which led into a civil war that became a huge battle between superpowers as they collided over communism and democracy. During the war, the superpowers chose to divide Korea between themselves which made Korea fall apart and crumble. ]]> 2022-06-01 19:43:13 UTC https://padlet.com/mchristophi/zm30b1cwyb8iqgwu/wish/2207964939 mchristophi https://padlet.com/mchristophi/zm30b1cwyb8iqgwu/wish/2207965438 The Board of education had the Supreme Court rule out the idea that separating children in public schools on the basis of race was unconstitutional. This idea led to the end of legalized racial segregation in the schools of the United States.]]> 2022-06-01 19:43:48 UTC https://padlet.com/mchristophi/zm30b1cwyb8iqgwu/wish/2207965438 mchristophi https://padlet.com/mchristophi/zm30b1cwyb8iqgwu/wish/2207965915 The Montgomery Bus Boycott was a civil rights protest during the time when African Americans had refused to ride city buses in Montgomery, Alabama, to prove that segregated seating was wrong and should be fixed. Because of the Boycott, they reached their goals which was to establish integration. This goal resulted in the federal court ruling out the idea that "any law requiring racially segregated seating on buses violated the 14th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution." ]]> 2022-06-01 19:44:15 UTC https://padlet.com/mchristophi/zm30b1cwyb8iqgwu/wish/2207965915 mchristophi https://padlet.com/mchristophi/zm30b1cwyb8iqgwu/wish/2207966807 The Vietnam War occurred when the United States had provided funding, armaments, and training to South Vietnam's government. This war was a long, expensive, and divisive conflict that targeted the communist government of North Vietnam against South Vietnam and its ally the United States. In the end of the war, Southern Vietnam gave up and let Northem Vietnam and the US win.]]> 2022-06-01 19:45:09 UTC https://padlet.com/mchristophi/zm30b1cwyb8iqgwu/wish/2207966807 mchristophi https://padlet.com/mchristophi/zm30b1cwyb8iqgwu/wish/2207967128 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]]> 2022-06-01 19:45:35 UTC https://padlet.com/mchristophi/zm30b1cwyb8iqgwu/wish/2207967128 mchristophi https://padlet.com/mchristophi/zm30b1cwyb8iqgwu/wish/2207967751 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. ]]> 2022-06-01 19:46:16 UTC https://padlet.com/mchristophi/zm30b1cwyb8iqgwu/wish/2207967751 mchristophi https://padlet.com/mchristophi/zm30b1cwyb8iqgwu/wish/2207968636 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 (King, “Beyond Vietnam,” 144). Under the leadership of Martin Luther King, Jr., the organization drew on the power and independence of black churches to support its activities. “This conference is called,” King wrote, with fellow ministers C. K. Steele and Fred Shuttlesworth in January 1957, “because we have no moral choice, before God, but to delve deeper into the struggle—and to do so with greater reliance on non-violence and with greater unity, coordination, sharing and Christian understanding” (Papers 4:95).]]> 2022-06-01 19:47:16 UTC https://padlet.com/mchristophi/zm30b1cwyb8iqgwu/wish/2207968636 mchristophi https://padlet.com/mchristophi/zm30b1cwyb8iqgwu/wish/2207971036 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. The Berlin Wall stood until November 9, 1989, when the head of the East German Communist Party announced that citizens of the GDR could cross the border whenever they pleased. ]]> 2022-06-01 19:50:08 UTC https://padlet.com/mchristophi/zm30b1cwyb8iqgwu/wish/2207971036 mchristophi https://padlet.com/mchristophi/zm30b1cwyb8iqgwu/wish/2207971455 During the spring of 1961, student activists from the Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) launched the Freedom Rides to challenge segregation on interstate buses and bus terminals.  Traveling on buses from Washington, D.C., to Jackson, Mississippi, the riders met violent opposition in the Deep South, garnering extensive media attention and eventually forcing federal intervention from John F. Kennedy’s administration. ]]> 2022-06-01 19:50:41 UTC https://padlet.com/mchristophi/zm30b1cwyb8iqgwu/wish/2207971455 mchristophi https://padlet.com/mchristophi/zm30b1cwyb8iqgwu/wish/2207972193 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. On January 1, 1959, a young Cuban nationalist named Fidel Castro drove his guerilla army into Havana and overthrew General Fulgencio Batista (1901-1973), the nation’s American-backed president. For the next two years, officials at the U.S. State Department and the CIA attempted to remove Castro.]]> 2022-06-01 19:51:32 UTC https://padlet.com/mchristophi/zm30b1cwyb8iqgwu/wish/2207972193 mchristophi https://padlet.com/mchristophi/zm30b1cwyb8iqgwu/wish/2207972882 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. The crisis was unique in a number of ways, featuring calculations and miscalculations as well as direct and secret communications and miscommunications between the two sides.]]> 2022-06-01 19:52:24 UTC https://padlet.com/mchristophi/zm30b1cwyb8iqgwu/wish/2207972882 mchristophi https://padlet.com/mchristophi/zm30b1cwyb8iqgwu/wish/2207974484 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. ]]> 2022-06-01 19:54:17 UTC https://padlet.com/mchristophi/zm30b1cwyb8iqgwu/wish/2207974484 mchristophi https://padlet.com/mchristophi/zm30b1cwyb8iqgwu/wish/2207974877 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. Also known as the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the event aimed to draw attention to continuing challenges and inequalities faced by African Americans a century after emancipation. It was also the occasion of Martin Luther King Jr.’s now-iconic “I Have a Dream” speech.]]> 2022-06-01 19:54:48 UTC https://padlet.com/mchristophi/zm30b1cwyb8iqgwu/wish/2207974877 mchristophi https://padlet.com/mchristophi/zm30b1cwyb8iqgwu/wish/2207975373 Shortly after noon on November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated as he rode in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, Texas. John Fitzgerald Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, is assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald while traveling through Dallas, Texas.

]]> 2022-06-01 19:55:25 UTC https://padlet.com/mchristophi/zm30b1cwyb8iqgwu/wish/2207975373 mchristophi https://padlet.com/mchristophi/zm30b1cwyb8iqgwu/wish/2207975863 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. The book examines the many ways in which women were still oppressed by American society.]]> 2022-06-01 19:56:00 UTC https://padlet.com/mchristophi/zm30b1cwyb8iqgwu/wish/2207975863 mchristophi https://padlet.com/mchristophi/zm30b1cwyb8iqgwu/wish/2207977145 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.]]> 2022-06-01 19:57:33 UTC https://padlet.com/mchristophi/zm30b1cwyb8iqgwu/wish/2207977145 mchristophi https://padlet.com/mchristophi/zm30b1cwyb8iqgwu/wish/2207977549 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.]]> 2022-06-01 19:57:58 UTC https://padlet.com/mchristophi/zm30b1cwyb8iqgwu/wish/2207977549 mchristophi https://padlet.com/mchristophi/zm30b1cwyb8iqgwu/wish/2207977831 The Tet Offensive was a coordinated series of North Vietnamese attacks on more than 100 cities and outposts in South Vietnam.]]> 2022-06-01 19:58:19 UTC https://padlet.com/mchristophi/zm30b1cwyb8iqgwu/wish/2207977831 mchristophi https://padlet.com/mchristophi/zm30b1cwyb8iqgwu/wish/2207978161 In 1969, a group of Native American activists called the Indians of All Tribes arrived on Alcatraz. Home of the Free Indian Land.” Other buildings were tagged with slogans like “Red Power” and “Custer Had It Coming.” ]]> 2022-06-01 19:58:44 UTC https://padlet.com/mchristophi/zm30b1cwyb8iqgwu/wish/2207978161 mchristophi https://padlet.com/mchristophi/zm30b1cwyb8iqgwu/wish/2207978646 The Stonewall Riots, also called the Stonewall Uprising, took place on June 28, 1969, in New York City, after police raided the Stonewall. In what is now regarded as history's first major protest on behalf of equal rights for LGBTQ people, a police raid of the Stonewall Inn—a popular gay club.]]> 2022-06-01 19:59:20 UTC https://padlet.com/mchristophi/zm30b1cwyb8iqgwu/wish/2207978646 mchristophi https://padlet.com/mchristophi/zm30b1cwyb8iqgwu/wish/2207979436 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. This Act, referred to in text, is Pub. L. 92-318, June 23, 1972, 86 Stat. 235, as amended, known as the Education Amendments of 1972. ]]> 2022-06-01 20:00:23 UTC https://padlet.com/mchristophi/zm30b1cwyb8iqgwu/wish/2207979436 mchristophi https://padlet.com/mchristophi/zm30b1cwyb8iqgwu/wish/2207979686  The Watergate scandal intensifies as Nixon announces that White House aides John Ehrlichman and H.R. Haldeman have resigned. On June 17, 1972, police arrested burglars in the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Watergate complex in Washington, D.C. Evidence linked the break-in to President Richard Nixon's re-election campaign.]]> 2022-06-01 20:00:44 UTC https://padlet.com/mchristophi/zm30b1cwyb8iqgwu/wish/2207979686 mchristophi https://padlet.com/mchristophi/zm30b1cwyb8iqgwu/wish/2207980393 The case began in 1970 when “Jane Roe”—a fictional name used to protect the identity of the plaintiff, Norma McCorvey (1947–2017)—instituted federal action against Henry Wade, the district attorney of Dallas county, Texas, where Roe resided. The Supreme Court disagreed with Roe’s assertion of an absolute right to terminate pregnancy in any way and at any time and attempted to balance a woman’s right of privacy with a state’s interest in regulating abortion.]]> 2022-06-01 20:01:39 UTC https://padlet.com/mchristophi/zm30b1cwyb8iqgwu/wish/2207980393 mchristophi https://padlet.com/mchristophi/zm30b1cwyb8iqgwu/wish/2207980622 In an evening televised address on August 8, 1974, President Richard M. Nixon announces his intention to resign in light of the Watergate scandal. The situation has become politically hopeless, Nixon resigned, making his resignation formal on Friday, August 9, 1974. ]]> 2022-06-01 20:01:58 UTC https://padlet.com/mchristophi/zm30b1cwyb8iqgwu/wish/2207980622 sward141 https://padlet.com/mchristophi/zm30b1cwyb8iqgwu/wish/2207981247 On March 5, 1946, Winston Churchill spoke about what he said was the "Iron Curtain." This speech was about how "the United States and Great Britain needed to confront an increasingly aggressive Soviet Union." In a general summary, this "iron curtain" speech was targeted towards the Soviet Union in order for them to keep itself away from satellite contact with the West. ]]> 2022-06-01 20:02:23 UTC https://padlet.com/mchristophi/zm30b1cwyb8iqgwu/wish/2207981247 mchristophi https://padlet.com/mchristophi/zm30b1cwyb8iqgwu/wish/2209126793 Two hijacked jetliners rammed the twin towers of the World Trade Center in the worst terrorist attack against the U.S.; a third hijacked plane flies into the Pentagon and a fourth crashed in rural Pennsylvania. More than 3,000 people die in the attacks(Sept. 11)]]> 2022-06-02 15:36:26 UTC https://padlet.com/mchristophi/zm30b1cwyb8iqgwu/wish/2209126793 mchristophi https://padlet.com/mchristophi/zm30b1cwyb8iqgwu/wish/2209424249 In his first State of the Union address, President Bush labels Iran, Iraq, and
North Korea an ―axis of evil‖ and declares that U.S. will wage war against
states that develop weapons of mass destruction (]]> 2022-06-02 20:51:02 UTC https://padlet.com/mchristophi/zm30b1cwyb8iqgwu/wish/2209424249 mchristophi https://padlet.com/mchristophi/zm30b1cwyb8iqgwu/wish/2209425408 Space shuttle Columbia explodes upon reentry into Earth's atmosphere. It killed all seven astronauts on board (]]> 2022-06-02 20:52:37 UTC https://padlet.com/mchristophi/zm30b1cwyb8iqgwu/wish/2209425408 mchristophi https://padlet.com/mchristophi/zm30b1cwyb8iqgwu/wish/2209426417 The U.S. returns sovereignty to an interim government in Iraq. They maintained roughly 135,000 troops in the country to
fight a growing insurgency. ]]> 2022-06-02 20:54:13 UTC https://padlet.com/mchristophi/zm30b1cwyb8iqgwu/wish/2209426417 mchristophi https://padlet.com/mchristophi/zm30b1cwyb8iqgwu/wish/2209427214 House of Representatives votes to impeach President Clinton on charges of perjury and obstruction of justice. ]]> 2022-06-02 20:55:36 UTC https://padlet.com/mchristophi/zm30b1cwyb8iqgwu/wish/2209427214 mchristophi https://padlet.com/mchristophi/zm30b1cwyb8iqgwu/wish/2209428402 Bomb explodes in basement garage of World Trade Center, killing 6, injuring 1,000, and causing more than $500 million in
damage.]]> 2022-06-02 20:57:25 UTC https://padlet.com/mchristophi/zm30b1cwyb8iqgwu/wish/2209428402 mchristophi https://padlet.com/mchristophi/zm30b1cwyb8iqgwu/wish/2209430009 Alaska becomes the 49th state (Jan. 3). Hawaii becomes the 50th (Aug. 21)]]> 2022-06-02 21:00:04 UTC https://padlet.com/mchristophi/zm30b1cwyb8iqgwu/wish/2209430009 mchristophi https://padlet.com/mchristophi/zm30b1cwyb8iqgwu/wish/2209431772 Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., delivers his ―I Have a Dream‖ speech before a crowd of 200,000 during the civil rights march on Washington, DC]]> 2022-06-02 21:02:40 UTC https://padlet.com/mchristophi/zm30b1cwyb8iqgwu/wish/2209431772 mchristophi https://padlet.com/mchristophi/zm30b1cwyb8iqgwu/wish/2209432782 Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., is assassinated in Memphis, Tenn.]]> 2022-06-02 21:04:21 UTC https://padlet.com/mchristophi/zm30b1cwyb8iqgwu/wish/2209432782 mchristophi https://padlet.com/mchristophi/zm30b1cwyb8iqgwu/wish/2209434856 The Twenty-Sixth Amendment to the Constitution is ratified, lowering the voting age from 21 to 18 ]]> 2022-06-02 21:07:23 UTC https://padlet.com/mchristophi/zm30b1cwyb8iqgwu/wish/2209434856