Cold War assignment by Warren Forbes https://padlet.com/wforbes1025/61qzvvt7mb9hgf4c en-us 2021-05-27 16:34:59 UTC 2021-05-27 21:15:27 UTC hello@padlet.com Vietnam: America fought in Vietnam from 1964 to 1973 the goal of the fighting was to stop the communist northern Vietnamese government from gaining power fo the non-communist southern Vietnamese government this effort failed and America was forced to leave Vietnam as There was backlash against it in the US against the war and eventually the Communist government united both sides wforbes1025 https://padlet.com/wforbes1025/61qzvvt7mb9hgf4c/wish/1565849077 2021-05-27 16:43:15 UTC https://padlet.com/wforbes1025/61qzvvt7mb9hgf4c/wish/1565849077 Cuba 1951 Fidel Castro was able to bring himself to power after a successful revolution of the prior corrupted U.S. supported government. He was able to find easy support from the USSR. The year after the United States started a counter revolution to overthrow Castro This was unsecuessful and is now known as the "The Bay of Pigs" This was seen as weakness by the USSR and they began to start building nuclear missle bases when this was dicoverd by America An blockade began agaisnt Cuba after that in 1962 Russia and the US were on the edge of Nuclear War but The USSR Leader Khrushchev agreed to remove the missles from Cuba and America agreed to remove its missiles fro Turkey wforbes1025 https://padlet.com/wforbes1025/61qzvvt7mb9hgf4c/wish/1565873003 2021-05-27 16:49:29 UTC https://padlet.com/wforbes1025/61qzvvt7mb9hgf4c/wish/1565873003 Nicarauga 1930-1979 wforbes1025 https://padlet.com/wforbes1025/61qzvvt7mb9hgf4c/wish/1566599807 In Nicarauga the leading dictatorship was supported by the United States until 1979 when it was overthrown by a group of communist led rebels known as the Sandinistas but due to their allicance with communist Cuba and the Soviet Union the US granted support to the Anti Communinst The US sold waepons the the Counter Revoltionist Contras aginst rules of sanctions at the timeand used that money to further fund the Contras in 1982 the Boland Agreement was created wich made it illegal to sell weapons or provide money to the contras in 1989 the war oficcaly ended with a ceasefire and in 1990 the Anti Sandisnta's were elcted and a peacefull transfer of power was granted]]> 2021-05-27 20:33:47 UTC https://padlet.com/wforbes1025/61qzvvt7mb9hgf4c/wish/1566599807 1956 Suez Canal Crisis wforbes1025 https://padlet.com/wforbes1025/61qzvvt7mb9hgf4c/wish/1566626946 In 1956 the President of Egypt at the time sent troops to Occupy the Suez canal until then The British had been leasing the canal from the Egyptians this caused the British, French and Iranians to invade this was sucessful but the action closed the Suez Canal Americas main concern with this was that it would slow its oil flow from the middle east. The US threated the iinvading courties with an econmic sanction casuign all to leave and thus the crisis was adverted. This showed that Frances adn Britans colinal powers were gone and had been relpaleaced by the Rivarly btween The US and the USSR]]> 2021-05-27 20:46:14 UTC https://padlet.com/wforbes1025/61qzvvt7mb9hgf4c/wish/1566626946 1973 Chilean Coup D' Etat wforbes1025 https://padlet.com/wforbes1025/61qzvvt7mb9hgf4c/wish/1566659479 The Marxist Salvador Allente was barley elected president of Chile in 1970 his support of CAstro and talk of nationalzing Chilean industries convinced the US thatthey should work to undermine the Allente adminastration. The CIA began support for the right wing Chilean politicans and military officer who were opposed to Allente's rule "The Chilean democracy was overthrown by a military Coup in August of 1973" The now military goverment would rule from 1973 until 1990. It was immedatliy recognized by the US that The military goerment was now in power during the reveloution President Allante shot himself after taking power The goverment began an outlaw against Marxism and left wing parties thousands of opressors were executed and tens of thousands were jailed and executed. The new ruling led to Chile being one of the mst wealthy south American Countries]]> 2021-05-27 21:01:32 UTC https://padlet.com/wforbes1025/61qzvvt7mb9hgf4c/wish/1566659479