https://padlet.com/430429/69tipie8ug9s en-us 2016-06-13 00:34:52 UTC 2016-06-13 01:32:36 UTC hello@padlet.com 430429 https://padlet.com/430429/69tipie8ug9s/wish/114434572 This was meeting between the British prime minister Winston Churchill, Soviet premier Joseph Stalin, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt early in February 1945 as World War II was winding down  ]]> 2016-06-13 00:37:26 UTC https://padlet.com/430429/69tipie8ug9s/wish/114434572 430429 https://padlet.com/430429/69tipie8ug9s/wish/114434666 NATO- The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949
Truman Doctrine-  the US should give support to countries or peoples threatened by Soviet forces
Marshall Plan- an American initiative to aid Western Europe in which the U.S. gave over $12 billion in economic support to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II
Cuban Missile crisis- was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union concerning Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba
Containment- a United States policy using numerous strategies to prevent the spread of communism abroad]]> 2016-06-13 00:39:54 UTC https://padlet.com/430429/69tipie8ug9s/wish/114434666 430429 https://padlet.com/430429/69tipie8ug9s/wish/114435551 Iron Curtain- the notional barrier separating the former Soviet bloc and the West prior to the decline of communism that followed the political events in eastern Europe in 1989
Warsaw Pact- a collective defense treaty among the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War ]]> 2016-06-13 01:01:50 UTC https://padlet.com/430429/69tipie8ug9s/wish/114435551 430429 https://padlet.com/430429/69tipie8ug9s/wish/114435772 -The Pace race affected these two countries because it created a greater advancement in technology
-The United States won the Space Race
-Soviet Union was the first to ever enter space while the U.S was the first to put a man on the moon]]> 2016-06-13 01:06:29 UTC https://padlet.com/430429/69tipie8ug9s/wish/114435772 430429 https://padlet.com/430429/69tipie8ug9s/wish/114436048 Vietnam War- was a Cold War proxy war  that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975
Korea War- began when North Korea invaded South Korea. The United Nations, with the United States as the principal force, came to the aid of South Korea. China, with assistance from the Soviet Union, came to the aid of North Korea]]> 2016-06-13 01:11:45 UTC https://padlet.com/430429/69tipie8ug9s/wish/114436048 430429 https://padlet.com/430429/69tipie8ug9s/wish/114436290 Détente- a period of improved relations between the United States and the Soviet Union that began tentatively in 1971 and took decisive form when President Richard M. Nixon visited the secretary-general of the Soviet Communist party
Ping pong diplomacy- refers to the exchange of table tennis players between the United States and People's Republic of China in the early 1970s]]> 2016-06-13 01:17:01 UTC https://padlet.com/430429/69tipie8ug9s/wish/114436290 430429 https://padlet.com/430429/69tipie8ug9s/wish/114436517 October 3 1990, East and West Berlin were reunited, and joined the Federal Republic as a full-fledged Federal City-State]]> 2016-06-13 01:21:57 UTC https://padlet.com/430429/69tipie8ug9s/wish/114436517 430429 https://padlet.com/430429/69tipie8ug9s/wish/114436584 Glasnost- Soviet policy of open discussion of political and social issues. It was instituted by Mikhail Gorbachev in the late 1980s and began the democratization of the Soviet Union
Perestroika- a political movement for reformation within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during the 1980s, widely associated with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and his glasnost policy reform
Mikhail Gorbachev- General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991 when the party was dissolved

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