https://padlet.com/woo_kailee_sherlin/56xlzsa9xknt62lc Made with whimsy en-us 2021-08-11 04:59:18 UTC 2025-11-25 12:29:10 UTC hello@padlet.com woo_kailee_sherlin https://padlet.com/woo_kailee_sherlin/56xlzsa9xknt62lc/wish/1675029407 Death of Joseph Stalin 
Most likely successor --> Lavrentiy Beria (Shot & died)


]]> 2021-08-11 05:00:07 UTC https://padlet.com/woo_kailee_sherlin/56xlzsa9xknt62lc/wish/1675029407 woo_kailee_sherlin https://padlet.com/woo_kailee_sherlin/56xlzsa9xknt62lc/wish/1675036622 Khrushchev became the new leader of the USSR after Stalin's death]]> 2021-08-11 05:05:10 UTC https://padlet.com/woo_kailee_sherlin/56xlzsa9xknt62lc/wish/1675036622 woo_kailee_sherlin https://padlet.com/woo_kailee_sherlin/56xlzsa9xknt62lc/wish/1675038248 At Communist Party Congress, Khrushchev denounced Stalin (The Secret Speech)

De-stalinisation was carried out ]]> 2021-08-11 05:06:54 UTC https://padlet.com/woo_kailee_sherlin/56xlzsa9xknt62lc/wish/1675038248 woo_kailee_sherlin https://padlet.com/woo_kailee_sherlin/56xlzsa9xknt62lc/wish/1675040984 1. Greatest triumphs of the Soviet space program (USSR became the first to achieve manned spaceflight) --> Test military technology 

2. Virgin Land Initiative -> harness technological advances to create a large belt of farmland 

3. Peaceful coexistence with the West -> speech was a threat]]> 2021-08-11 05:09:50 UTC https://padlet.com/woo_kailee_sherlin/56xlzsa9xknt62lc/wish/1675040984 woo_kailee_sherlin https://padlet.com/woo_kailee_sherlin/56xlzsa9xknt62lc/wish/1675042885 1. U2 Crisis -> America continue to fly reconnaissance missions over the USSR despite its protest

2. Berlin Crisis --> US and Soviet tanks have a tense standoff

3. Sino-Soviet Split -> Chairman Mao and People's republic of china denounce USSR and its leaders as traitors to the communist cause



]]> 2021-08-11 05:11:49 UTC https://padlet.com/woo_kailee_sherlin/56xlzsa9xknt62lc/wish/1675042885 woo_kailee_sherlin https://padlet.com/woo_kailee_sherlin/56xlzsa9xknt62lc/wish/1675044082 1. Cuban Missile Crisis -> USSR Place nuclear weapon in Cuba but eventually retreat and US agreed to remove nuclear weapon from NATO states (Made Khrushchev look weak and reputation damaged)



]]> 2021-08-11 05:13:09 UTC https://padlet.com/woo_kailee_sherlin/56xlzsa9xknt62lc/wish/1675044082 woo_kailee_sherlin https://padlet.com/woo_kailee_sherlin/56xlzsa9xknt62lc/wish/1675046030 1. Khrushchev ousted from power and forced into retirement

2. Leonid Brezhnev came into power (undo Khrushchev's reforms-> eg enforce stricter standards on the Warsaw Pact)







]]> 2021-08-11 05:15:12 UTC https://padlet.com/woo_kailee_sherlin/56xlzsa9xknt62lc/wish/1675046030 woo_kailee_sherlin https://padlet.com/woo_kailee_sherlin/56xlzsa9xknt62lc/wish/1675046921 1. USSR invaded and put an end to any reforms 

2. Economic stagnation for ]]> 2021-08-11 05:16:06 UTC https://padlet.com/woo_kailee_sherlin/56xlzsa9xknt62lc/wish/1675046921