The cold war by SAVANNAH MILLER https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb Welcome to our Bulletin board! Contribute by posting announcements, sharing achievements, and expressing thoughts to build a vibrant, interactive class community. Let's keep the conversation positive and supportive! en-us 2024-03-20 21:08:27 UTC 2024-03-20 22:16:18 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f4cd.png Richard nixon smil2636_ https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927455650 republican also running for president in 1960, went up against John F Kennedy

]]> 2024-03-20 21:11:01 UTC https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927455650 Yalta Conferance smil2636_ https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927456715 Germany and the city of Berlin were divided into 4 occupational zones controlled by U.S, France, Great Brititan & the USSR


Received aid for economic recovery

]]> 2024-03-20 21:12:23 UTC https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927456715 Domino Theory smil2636_ https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927457637 If one country falls to communism other poor countries will too, so we need to stop it before it stops

]]> 2024-03-20 21:13:38 UTC https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927457637 May Lai smil2636_ https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927459269 250 Vietnamese woman and children and men were massacred by Americans who believed that they were "Vietcong"

]]> 2024-03-20 21:15:39 UTC https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927459269 Kent State smil2636_ https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927459920 collage students burnt down army recruiting site because of draft, army shot back

4 students killed

]]> 2024-03-20 21:16:37 UTC https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927459920 Napalm/Agent Orange smil2636_ https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927460763 chemical weapon used to frighten and anger people

]]> 2024-03-20 21:17:50 UTC https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927460763 TET offensive smil2636_ https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927461313 u.s attacked by the Vietcong and north Vietnamese

american military won but huge political loss because all of it was shown on T.V

]]> 2024-03-20 21:18:45 UTC https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927461313 Draft smil2636_ https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927461679 the involuntary process that determined men's service in the war

]]> 2024-03-20 21:19:14 UTC https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927461679 Tonkin gulf smil2636_ https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927463118 LBJ said the North Vietnamese attacked U.S ships in gulf of tonkin

Congress gave Johnson complete control over the army to do what was necessary w/ the Vietnam conflict

]]> 2024-03-20 21:21:22 UTC https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927463118 Lyndon B Johnson smil2636_ https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927463804 takes over after JFK death


known for the escalation of Vietnam and work with the civil rights movement

]]> 2024-03-20 21:22:22 UTC https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927463804 geneva accords smil2636_ https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927464530 U.N decided that France had to leave vietnam


Vietnamese temporarily split @ 17th parallel until an election takes place to unite in 5 years

]]> 2024-03-20 21:23:29 UTC https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927464530 ho chi minh smil2636_ https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927465863 communist leader who admired the declaration of independence and wrote his own version

]]> 2024-03-20 21:25:23 UTC https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927465863 ho chi Minh trail smil2636_ https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927466716 enabled North Vietnam, USSR, and China to send troops and weapons to south Vietnam

]]> 2024-03-20 21:26:46 UTC https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927466716 vietcong smil2636_ https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927467341 south Vietnamese who wanted communism,


used guerilla tactics


aided by North vietnam, China and USSR

]]> 2024-03-20 21:27:44 UTC https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927467341 ngo dinh diem smil2636_ https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927468142 democratic leader of south vietnam


we felt like we could control him to run the country the way we wanted but he was corrupt

]]> 2024-03-20 21:28:51 UTC https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927468142 cuban missile crisis smil2636_ https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927469355 a 13 day confrontation between the us and USSR over missiles in Cuba and turkey


Khrushchev secretly began installing secret nuclear missiles in cuba

]]> 2024-03-20 21:30:42 UTC https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927469355 bay of pigs smil2636_ https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927470272 failed invasion to kill communist leader Fidel Castro from Cuba during invasion

]]> 2024-03-20 21:31:53 UTC https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927470272 Fidel Castro and cuba smil2636_ https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927471701 Fidel Castro led a communist revolution in Cuba, kills the leader of Cuba that the USA supported and gave $$ to

]]> 2024-03-20 21:33:54 UTC https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927471701 John F Kennedy smil2636_ https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927472138 youngest elected president

known for :


  • civil rights

  • bay of pigs

  • cuban missile crisis

]]> 2024-03-20 21:34:36 UTC https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927472138 baby boom smil2636_ https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927472778 the era after WW2 when everyone started having children


massive increase in the population

]]> 2024-03-20 21:35:27 UTC https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927472778 sputnik smil2636_ https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927473671 Russian satellite launched that beat us into space, the have the technological edge

]]> 2024-03-20 21:36:45 UTC https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927473671 Nikita khrushchev smil2636_ https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927474660 new soviet leader after Stalin died


leader during the space race and cuban missile crisis

]]> 2024-03-20 21:38:11 UTC https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927474660 CIA smil2636_ https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927475263 central intelligence agency


created by Eisenhower to spy on the soviets

]]> 2024-03-20 21:38:55 UTC https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927475263 Dwight D Eisenhower smil2636_ https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927475716 president and former military general

]]> 2024-03-20 21:39:28 UTC https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927475716 Hydrogen Bomb smil2636_ https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927476417 known as the H-Bomb

created and tested w/ former Nazi scientists

67x more powerful than the atomic bomb

]]> 2024-03-20 21:40:24 UTC https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927476417 McCarthyism smil2636_ https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927477377 accuse people w/ being communist w/out any evidence

]]> 2024-03-20 21:41:38 UTC https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927477377 the rosenburgs smil2636_ https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927478048 U.S citizens who were accused of being spies and giving the soviets info to help build the H-Bomb

]]> 2024-03-20 21:42:32 UTC https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927478048 Red Scare smil2636_ https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927478814 scare that Russian spies had infiltrated the American government, they were trying to weaken and overthrow America's government

]]> 2024-03-20 21:43:20 UTC https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927478814 HUAC smil2636_ https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927481177 told people what was American activities and what wasn't


produced anti-communist propaganda

]]> 2024-03-20 21:46:48 UTC https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927481177 DMZ smil2636_ https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927482187 De-militarized zone @ the 38th parallel


still divides Korea today

]]> 2024-03-20 21:47:59 UTC https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927482187 38th parallel smil2636_ https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927482854 "line" that divided North and South Korea


still divides it today

]]> 2024-03-20 21:48:51 UTC https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927482854 Korean war smil2636_ https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927485947 North Korea wanted unified Korea under communism so they invaded the south

]]> 2024-03-20 21:51:07 UTC https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927485947 Warsaw pact smil2636_ https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927486781 military alliance between the Soviet union and eastern europe

]]> 2024-03-20 21:51:52 UTC https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927486781 NATO smil2636_ https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927487742 North Atlantic Treaty Organization


military alliance established to defend member nations from communism

]]> 2024-03-20 21:53:02 UTC https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927487742 Berlin Wall smil2636_ https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927488868 a wall to divide east and west berlin

]]> 2024-03-20 21:53:55 UTC https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927488868 Berlin airlift smil2636_ https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927489531 stalin prohibited travel into "his" part of Germany


western Allies airlifted supplies to the people of west berlin

]]> 2024-03-20 21:55:01 UTC https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927489531 marshall plan smil2636_ https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927490072 u.s gave aid to rebuild europes economy

]]> 2024-03-20 21:56:02 UTC https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927490072 Truman doctorine smil2636_ https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927490512 pledged to help any free people resisting communist,

]]> 2024-03-20 21:56:50 UTC https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927490512 Containment smil2636_ https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927491017 stop the spread of communism and keep it where it was

]]> 2024-03-20 21:57:50 UTC https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927491017 iron curtain smil2636_ https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927491625 the military, political and ideological "barrier" between the soviets and western Europe

]]> 2024-03-20 21:58:52 UTC https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927491625 united nations smil2636_ https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927492291 created in 1945


power to decide diplomatic political and military disputes

]]> 2024-03-20 22:00:00 UTC https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927492291 pentagon papers smil2636_ https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927499593 united states political and military involvement in vietnam

]]> 2024-03-20 22:10:12 UTC https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927499593 vietnamization smil2636_ https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927502967 policy made by Richard nixon


end u.s involvement in the Vietnamese war

]]> 2024-03-20 22:12:03 UTC https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927502967 satellite nations smil2636_ https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927503595 independent country that is under heavy political, economic and military control from another country

]]> 2024-03-20 22:13:04 UTC https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927503595 Chiang kai-shek smil2636_ https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927503962 Chinese politician and military leader


led the republic of china

]]> 2024-03-20 22:13:47 UTC https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927503962 Doves and Hawks smil2636_ https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927504547 Doves: wanted the war to end


Hawks: supported America in remaining in war until it was won


]]> 2024-03-20 22:14:48 UTC https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927504547 vietminh smil2636_ https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927504840 created by Indochinese communist party

]]> 2024-03-20 22:15:22 UTC https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927504840 mao zedong smil2636_ https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927505271 leader of china's communist party

]]> 2024-03-20 22:15:58 UTC https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927505271 war power act smil2636_ https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927505670 designed to limit presidents ability to escalate military actions

]]> 2024-03-20 22:16:37 UTC https://padlet.com/smil2636_/3xgf53oampxnvvmb/wish/2927505670