The Cold War by Aliyah Garza https://padlet.com/108059660/1smxlrxu6jwzn8si en-us 2022-04-06 15:05:08 UTC 2022-04-07 15:06:49 UTC hello@padlet.com (1945) The Yalta Conference, also known as the Crimea Conference and codenamed Argonaut, held 4–11 February 1945, was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union to discuss the postwar reorganization of Germany and Europe accuring on Feb 4, 1945 through Feb 11, 1945 taking place in Yalta, Livadia Palace and Livadiya 108059660 https://padlet.com/108059660/1smxlrxu6jwzn8si/wish/2132839283 2022-04-06 15:13:47 UTC https://padlet.com/108059660/1smxlrxu6jwzn8si/wish/2132839283 (1947) The Truman Doctrine is an American foreign policy that originated with the primary goal of containing Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War and With the Truman Doctrine, President Harry S. Truman established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces. 108059660 https://padlet.com/108059660/1smxlrxu6jwzn8si/wish/2132843406 2022-04-06 15:15:50 UTC https://padlet.com/108059660/1smxlrxu6jwzn8si/wish/2132843406 (1947) The Marshall Plan was a U.S.-sponsored program designed to rehabilitate the economies of 17 western and southern European countries in order to create stable conditions in which democratic institutions could survive in the aftermath of World War II. It was formally called the European Recovery Program 108059660 https://padlet.com/108059660/1smxlrxu6jwzn8si/wish/2132847008 2022-04-06 15:17:42 UTC https://padlet.com/108059660/1smxlrxu6jwzn8si/wish/2132847008 (1948) The Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post–World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control. 108059660 https://padlet.com/108059660/1smxlrxu6jwzn8si/wish/2132849843 2022-04-06 15:19:11 UTC https://padlet.com/108059660/1smxlrxu6jwzn8si/wish/2132849843 (1949) The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance between 30 member states, of which 28 are in Europe and the other 2 in North America. 108059660 https://padlet.com/108059660/1smxlrxu6jwzn8si/wish/2132855129 2022-04-06 15:22:06 UTC https://padlet.com/108059660/1smxlrxu6jwzn8si/wish/2132855129 (1949) The Chinese Communist Revolution was a period of social and political revolution in China that began with the founding of the Chinese Communist Party in 1921, continued through the First United Front of the 1920s. 108059660 https://padlet.com/108059660/1smxlrxu6jwzn8si/wish/2132867795 2022-04-06 15:28:44 UTC https://padlet.com/108059660/1smxlrxu6jwzn8si/wish/2132867795 (1950) The first Red Scare began following the Bolshevik Russian Revolution of 1917 and the subsequent wave of Communist revolutions throughout Europe and beyond. 108059660 https://padlet.com/108059660/1smxlrxu6jwzn8si/wish/2132878560 2022-04-06 15:33:44 UTC https://padlet.com/108059660/1smxlrxu6jwzn8si/wish/2132878560 (1950) After five years of simmering tensions on the Korean peninsula, the Korean War began on June 25, 1950, when the Northern Korean People's Army invaded South Korea in a coordinated general attack at several strategic points along the 38th parallel, the line dividing communist North Korea from the non-communist Republic 108059660 https://padlet.com/108059660/1smxlrxu6jwzn8si/wish/2132880581 2022-04-06 15:34:53 UTC https://padlet.com/108059660/1smxlrxu6jwzn8si/wish/2132880581 (1955) The Warsaw Treaty Organization, officially the Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation and Mutual Assistance, commonly known as the Warsaw Pact, was a collective defense treaty signed in Warsaw 108059660 https://padlet.com/108059660/1smxlrxu6jwzn8si/wish/2134722762 2022-04-07 14:35:58 UTC https://padlet.com/108059660/1smxlrxu6jwzn8si/wish/2134722762 (1957) Sputnik was the first artificial Earth satellite. It was launched into an elliptical low Earth orbit by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957 as part of the Soviet space program. It orbited for three weeks before its batteries ran out 108059660 https://padlet.com/108059660/1smxlrxu6jwzn8si/wish/2134730324 2022-04-07 14:39:46 UTC https://padlet.com/108059660/1smxlrxu6jwzn8si/wish/2134730324 (1959) The Cuban Revolution was an armed revolt conducted by Fidel Castro and his fellow revolutionaries of the 26th of July Movement and its allies against the military dictatorship of Cuban President Fulgencio Batista 108059660 https://padlet.com/108059660/1smxlrxu6jwzn8si/wish/2134735382 2022-04-07 14:42:03 UTC https://padlet.com/108059660/1smxlrxu6jwzn8si/wish/2134735382 (1959) The Kitchen Debate was a series of impromptu exchanges through interpreters between U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon, then 46, and Chairman of the Council of Ministers Nikita Khrushchev, 65, at the opening of the American National Exhibition at Sokolniki Park in Moscow on July 24, 1959. 108059660 https://padlet.com/108059660/1smxlrxu6jwzn8si/wish/2134739585 2022-04-07 14:44:14 UTC https://padlet.com/108059660/1smxlrxu6jwzn8si/wish/2134739585 (1960) The 1960 United States presidential election was the 44th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 8, 1960. In a closely contested election, Democratic United States Senator John F. Kennedy defeated the incumbent Vice President Richard Nixon, the Republican Party nominee. 108059660 https://padlet.com/108059660/1smxlrxu6jwzn8si/wish/2134742186 2022-04-07 14:45:33 UTC https://padlet.com/108059660/1smxlrxu6jwzn8si/wish/2134742186 (1961) The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba in 1961 by Cuban exiles who opposed Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution, covertly financed and directed by the U.S. government. 108059660 https://padlet.com/108059660/1smxlrxu6jwzn8si/wish/2134754668 2022-04-07 14:51:46 UTC https://padlet.com/108059660/1smxlrxu6jwzn8si/wish/2134754668 (1961) The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989 as well as encircling and separating West Berlin from East German territory. Construction of the wall was commenced by the German Democratic Republic on 13 August 1961 108059660 https://padlet.com/108059660/1smxlrxu6jwzn8si/wish/2134767752 2022-04-07 14:58:49 UTC https://padlet.com/108059660/1smxlrxu6jwzn8si/wish/2134767752 (1962) The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis of 1962, the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare, was a one-month, four-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union 108059660 https://padlet.com/108059660/1smxlrxu6jwzn8si/wish/2134773291 2022-04-07 15:01:54 UTC https://padlet.com/108059660/1smxlrxu6jwzn8si/wish/2134773291 (1963) John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of the United States, was assassinated on Friday, November 22, 1963, at 12:30 p.m. CST in Dallas, Texas, while riding in a presidential motorcade through Dealey Plaza. 108059660 https://padlet.com/108059660/1smxlrxu6jwzn8si/wish/2134779139 2022-04-07 15:05:11 UTC https://padlet.com/108059660/1smxlrxu6jwzn8si/wish/2134779139 (1969) A Moon landing is the arrival of a spacecraft on the surface of the Moon. This includes both crewed and robotic missions. The first human-made object to touch the Moon was the Soviet Union's Luna 2, on 13 September 1959. The United States' Apollo 11 was the first crewed mission to land on the Moon, on 20 July 1969 108059660 https://padlet.com/108059660/1smxlrxu6jwzn8si/wish/2134780568 2022-04-07 15:06:00 UTC https://padlet.com/108059660/1smxlrxu6jwzn8si/wish/2134780568