https://padlet.com/7000002111_1/4aj8x9g7ccio4qj5 Made with eyes on the prize en-us 2022-05-06 18:31:33 UTC 2025-09-27 05:21:19 UTC hello@padlet.com 7000002111_1 https://padlet.com/7000002111_1/4aj8x9g7ccio4qj5/wish/2173315615 March 5, 1953 shortly after Stalin's death, a loyal member of the Communist party named Nikita Khrushchev became the dominant Soviet Leader

]]> 2022-05-06 18:37:15 UTC https://padlet.com/7000002111_1/4aj8x9g7ccio4qj5/wish/2173315615 7000002111_1 https://padlet.com/7000002111_1/4aj8x9g7ccio4qj5/wish/2173321927 Khrushchev speech signaled the beginning of a policy called de-stalinization, or purging the country of Stalin's memory]]> 2022-05-06 18:42:58 UTC https://padlet.com/7000002111_1/4aj8x9g7ccio4qj5/wish/2173321927 7000002111_1 https://padlet.com/7000002111_1/4aj8x9g7ccio4qj5/wish/2173326637 Détente, a policy of lessened Cold War tensions, finally replaced brinkmanship during the administration of President Richard M. Nixon.]]> 2022-05-06 18:47:34 UTC https://padlet.com/7000002111_1/4aj8x9g7ccio4qj5/wish/2173326637 7000002111_1 https://padlet.com/7000002111_1/4aj8x9g7ccio4qj5/wish/2173331453 President Nixon's move toward détente grew out of a philosophy known as realpolitik. After a series of meetings called the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT), Nixon and Brezhnev signed the SALT I Treaty.]]> 2022-05-06 18:52:19 UTC https://padlet.com/7000002111_1/4aj8x9g7ccio4qj5/wish/2173331453 7000002111_1 https://padlet.com/7000002111_1/4aj8x9g7ccio4qj5/wish/2173344805 August 20, 1968, The Soviet Union led Warsaw Pact troops in an invasion of Czechoslovakia to crack down on reformist trends in Prague]]> 2022-05-06 18:59:26 UTC https://padlet.com/7000002111_1/4aj8x9g7ccio4qj5/wish/2173344805 7000002111_1 https://padlet.com/7000002111_1/4aj8x9g7ccio4qj5/wish/2173350160 Gorbachev launched glasnost as the second vital plank of his reform efforts. Glasnost was taken to mean increased openness and transparency in government institutions and activities in the Soviet Union.]]> 2022-05-06 19:04:24 UTC https://padlet.com/7000002111_1/4aj8x9g7ccio4qj5/wish/2173350160 7000002111_1 https://padlet.com/7000002111_1/4aj8x9g7ccio4qj5/wish/2173353446 November 9, 1989 political reforms inside the Soviet bloc, escalating pressure from the people of Eastern Europe and ultimately, confusion over an East German directive to open the border.]]> 2022-05-06 19:07:14 UTC https://padlet.com/7000002111_1/4aj8x9g7ccio4qj5/wish/2173353446