https://padlet.com/talpadei25/44b70dq4flk0oh4u en-us 2023-02-16 14:51:53 UTC 2023-02-20 17:25:16 UTC hello@padlet.com talpadei25 https://padlet.com/talpadei25/44b70dq4flk0oh4u/wish/2485102037 Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin, and Harry Truman met in Germany for the Potsdam Confrence after the war to discuss what would happen to the nation. Here Stalin and Truman discussed economic and political systems which emphasized their differences and laid the foundations of the Cold War.

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/features/nuremberg-cold-war/ ]]> 2023-02-16 15:02:38 UTC https://padlet.com/talpadei25/44b70dq4flk0oh4u/wish/2485102037 talpadei25 https://padlet.com/talpadei25/44b70dq4flk0oh4u/wish/2485102885 In this image, Truman is signing into law the Marshal plan. The Marshal plan. Initiated by Secretary Marshal: This plan boosted European countries to get back on their feet post WWII. What related this to the cold war was that the incentive to pass this law was that he believed that to counter the expanding ideas of communism a stable democratic Europe had to be redeveloped. 

https://2017-2021.state.gov/celebrating-the-anniversary-of-the-marshall-plan-a-legacy-remembered/index.html

]]> 2023-02-16 15:03:12 UTC https://padlet.com/talpadei25/44b70dq4flk0oh4u/wish/2485102885 talpadei25 https://padlet.com/talpadei25/44b70dq4flk0oh4u/wish/2485103150 The Korean war was the first military action of the Cold War. When North Korea first initiated the war they crossed the 38th parallel (A line that divided the Soviet communist-supported side and the U.S-supported side (South Korea).
President Truman was advised to send troops to South Korea (the soldiers in the picture above are American) to help defend the democratic nation because this war was another global communism threat. 

Image: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Warkorea_American_Soldiers.jpg
Blurb: https://www.history.com/news/korean-war-causes-us-involvement]]> 2023-02-16 15:03:24 UTC https://padlet.com/talpadei25/44b70dq4flk0oh4u/wish/2485103150 talpadei25 https://padlet.com/talpadei25/44b70dq4flk0oh4u/wish/2485103419 The Soviet Union was the first to put a human body into space. Up to this point there was a race for weapons, political ideas, territory and in the 1960's space exploration was now a concern. With space came satellites which meant that the Soviet Union had a leg up for the first time in a while, and the U.S was playing catch up in the Cold war. 

Blurb: https://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/space-race
Image: https://coldwar.unc.edu/2018/07/glory-to-the-soviet-people. ]]> 2023-02-16 15:03:35 UTC https://padlet.com/talpadei25/44b70dq4flk0oh4u/wish/2485103419 talpadei25 https://padlet.com/talpadei25/44b70dq4flk0oh4u/wish/2487341841 This wall above served as another reminder of the cold war. It became a physical divide to emphasize the differences in ideologies. The Berlin Wall stretched 27 miles long and was lined with barbed wire, guards, and land mines. The east became a communist territory because the Soviet Union ruled much of the Eastern European countries and now had a city unwillingly divided.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/why-berlin-wall-built-fell

]]> 2023-02-19 01:46:03 UTC https://padlet.com/talpadei25/44b70dq4flk0oh4u/wish/2487341841 talpadei25 https://padlet.com/talpadei25/44b70dq4flk0oh4u/wish/2487345095 Several things led to the end of the cold war but when the Soviet Union ended much tension was gone. The Iron curtain was lifted and as shown in the map above the Soviet Union became several independent countries. The super power that fought for Communism had dissolved. 

Image: https://fee.org/articles/the-25th-anniversary-of-the-end-of-the-soviet-union/
Blurb: https://americanhistory.si.edu/subs/history/timeline/end/#:~:text=During%201989%20and%201990%2C%20the,War%20came%20to%20an%20end.]]> 2023-02-19 01:52:36 UTC https://padlet.com/talpadei25/44b70dq4flk0oh4u/wish/2487345095 talpadei25 https://padlet.com/talpadei25/44b70dq4flk0oh4u/wish/2487625961 Previously the Soviet Union promised to defend Cuba (which had a heavy communist party) with arms and missiles. The points on the image above are where missile launching sites were. And the land above Cuba is Florida, meaning that these missiles, if launched, could hit much of Eastern U.S. The Soviet Union sent missile shipments to Cuba. JFK formed a blockade to seize all arms imports to Cuba. The Soviet Union agreed to stop sending weapons and take back the missiles as long as U.S troops left Cuba, and the conflict was resolved. This is significant to the Cold War because it was still the communist ideals verses democratic. 

https://www.britannica.com/event/Cuban-missile-crisis]]> 2023-02-19 16:03:38 UTC https://padlet.com/talpadei25/44b70dq4flk0oh4u/wish/2487625961 talpadei25 https://padlet.com/talpadei25/44b70dq4flk0oh4u/wish/2487637029 Above are Americans who fought in the The Vietnam War, another proxy war for the U.S. The main incentive was to intervene into Communist Bloc terrioriory (Cold war). At the time Vietnam was divided into communist north and non-communist south. After South Vietnam's dictator was assassinated an anarchy was formed which led to U.S involvement. What slowly started as indirect assistance quickly led to ground forces.

https://www.legion.org/magazine/213233/why-we-went-war-vietnam]]> 2023-02-19 16:26:56 UTC https://padlet.com/talpadei25/44b70dq4flk0oh4u/wish/2487637029 talpadei25 https://padlet.com/talpadei25/44b70dq4flk0oh4u/wish/2487640208 US Apollo 11 landed the moon and Neil Armstrong became the first man on the moon. This US achievement was pushed by JKF who said that the U.S needed to overtake the Russian space program and put the first man on the moon. The U.S caught up to Russian intel again. These pushes for advancement were efforts to show the great things democracy can do. 

https://phys.org/news/2012-08-apollo-giant-mankind-cold-war.html]]> 2023-02-19 16:33:51 UTC https://padlet.com/talpadei25/44b70dq4flk0oh4u/wish/2487640208 talpadei25 https://padlet.com/talpadei25/44b70dq4flk0oh4u/wish/2487650411 The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks were negotiations between the US and USSR. In efforts to limit and apply rules to nuclear weapons. The first result of these talks was the treaty on Anti-Ballistic Missiles. Signed by Nixon and Brezhnev as shown in the Image above. This treaty outlined the specific regulation to anti ballistic missiles. SALT I and II made the Cold War less reckless then it could have been and officially recognized the harm nuclear weapons could do.

https://www.britannica.com/event/Strategic-Arms-Limitation-Talks]]> 2023-02-19 16:54:51 UTC https://padlet.com/talpadei25/44b70dq4flk0oh4u/wish/2487650411 talpadei25 https://padlet.com/talpadei25/44b70dq4flk0oh4u/wish/2487785663 In the image above is a vehicle manned by Soviet troops who are making rounds around Afghan civilians during the invasion. Afghanistan's new government followed Marxist ideologies and had close ties with the USSR. This government was not favored by the majority of citizens but still they enforced their ideas domestically. It led to uprisings between the two parties and the Soviet Union invaded in hopes of gaining another client state. The anti - communist bloc grew and was backed by the US. After years of fighting and conflict, Afghanistan returned to an unaligned status. This conflict is another example of the indirect fighting of the Cold War.

https://www.britannica.com/event/Soviet-invasion-of-Afghanistan]]> 2023-02-19 22:18:21 UTC https://padlet.com/talpadei25/44b70dq4flk0oh4u/wish/2487785663 talpadei25 https://padlet.com/talpadei25/44b70dq4flk0oh4u/wish/2487794168 The Suez canal controlled 2/3 of the oil used by Europe. Israeli forces went into Egypt for the Suez canal but the canal was nationalized that year. Israel was joined by France and Britain in these effort. This conflict was a brief moment of union between the U.S and USSR during the Cold War. Eisenhower advised Khrushchev that direct intervention in this conflict would only make it worse. The U.S threatened France and Britain to stop using Economic sanctions and all three countries withdrew their troops.

Image: https://www.worldatlas.com/canals/the-suez-canal.html
Blurb: https://www.history.com/topics/cold-war/suez-crisis]]> 2023-02-19 22:40:12 UTC https://padlet.com/talpadei25/44b70dq4flk0oh4u/wish/2487794168 talpadei25 https://padlet.com/talpadei25/44b70dq4flk0oh4u/wish/2487813764 In 1989 the Berlin Wall fell after nearly 20 years. The night of the 9th it was broadcasted that the gates of the wall stand wide open. Negotiations between the West German chancellor, Bush and Gorbachev agreed on reunification of the two German states. The fall of the Berlin Wall became a symbol for the Cold War to end.
Blurb: https://time.com/5720386/berlin-wall-fall/
Image: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/11/03/berlin-walls-fall-marked-the-end-of-the-cold-war-for-the-american-public/]]> 2023-02-19 23:30:46 UTC https://padlet.com/talpadei25/44b70dq4flk0oh4u/wish/2487813764 talpadei25 https://padlet.com/talpadei25/44b70dq4flk0oh4u/wish/2487813951 Revolts against the dictators regime started in December however quickly it spread to the rest of the country and several began to demonstrate. The people of Romania were unsettled because the dictator was making poor economic choices among many. The country was in economic hardship and then he splurged on the palace only making the citizens more agitated, and even troops helped (image above). Ultimately the dictator and his wife were overthrown. This relates to the cold war because Romania was one of Europes most repressive communist regimes. So with the fall came realizations that communism is not sustainable. 

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-50821546]]> 2023-02-19 23:31:23 UTC https://padlet.com/talpadei25/44b70dq4flk0oh4u/wish/2487813951 talpadei25 https://padlet.com/talpadei25/44b70dq4flk0oh4u/wish/2488719447 Summer of 1980 the Olympics were held in Moscow, however it shined a light on how much the Soviet Union was disliked. President Carter suspected the the Soviet Union was getting ready to commandeer the Persian Gulf. So he increased funding in the army and gave money to the anti - communist organization in the Soviet. Several of the attending countries did not go to the opening ceremony. This event showed how the Soviet was going to be brought down inch by inch and to finally end the Cold war. 

http://nhd2016acdyslin.weebly.com/effects-of-the-boycott.html]]> 2023-02-20 17:08:13 UTC https://padlet.com/talpadei25/44b70dq4flk0oh4u/wish/2488719447