https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k Mickey Wilcox and Ryan Link en-us 2019-02-05 18:54:42 UTC 2025-11-09 14:30:51 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-uploads.storage.googleapis.com/350389205/ddb92536e361423d7ff1a8d9cea3c7ac/download.png 21linkr https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/328419800 The Bolsheviks overthrow the Czars and Vladimir Lenin takes power.]]> 2019-02-06 18:31:15 UTC https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/328419800 21linkr https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/328422368 The Soviet Union makes an agreement with Germany to take Poland.]]> 2019-02-06 18:34:59 UTC https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/328422368 21linkr https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/328423619 Germany breaks their agreement with the Soviet Union and attacks them. The Soviet Union joins the Allied powers in response.]]> 2019-02-06 18:36:53 UTC https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/328423619 21linkr https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/328424351 The Allied powers finally win the war and the Soviet Union starts installing pro-communist regimes that depend on them in Eastern European countries.]]> 2019-02-06 18:38:05 UTC https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/328424351 21linkr https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/328426012 The Soviet Union sets up a blockade which prevented other countries from getting important goods like food to people in West Germany. They also tried to expand the Soviet influence to Turkey and Iran but gave up due to the support they were receiving from the US.]]> 2019-02-06 18:40:39 UTC https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/328426012 21linkr https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/328428666 The Soviet Union lifts their blockade on West Germany and successfully test their first nuclear weapon.]]> 2019-02-06 18:44:31 UTC https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/328428666 21linkr https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/328430484 The Soviet Union and China join an alliance and communist North Korea invades South Korea.]]> 2019-02-06 18:47:23 UTC https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/328430484 21linkr https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/328431646 Stalin dies, and Nikita Khrushchev takes power.]]> 2019-02-06 18:49:03 UTC https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/328431646 21wilcoxm https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/328447906 Having noticed the Soviet Union’s new form for government, the United States opposed it, as it went against the main political ideologies of the United States.]]> 2019-02-06 19:15:39 UTC https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/328447906 21wilcoxm https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/328450393 The United States and other European nations sent a small force to help Russian monarchists, but it ultimately failed, the Soviet Union became assuredly communist.]]> 2019-02-06 19:20:07 UTC https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/328450393 21wilcoxm https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/328450692 The all foreign powers, including the forces of the United States, were pulled from the Soviet Union.]]> 2019-02-06 19:20:39 UTC https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/328450692 21linkr https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/328451006 The French lose the Indochina war and Vietnam is split into North and South Vietnam with north being communist and South being US-supported. North Vietnam begins supporting an armed Communist insurgency in the South which lasted for around 20 years.]]> 2019-02-06 19:21:12 UTC https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/328451006 21wilcoxm https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/328451127 December 7-the United States joined the Allies to fight the Nazis when Japan bombed Pearl Harbor.  ]]> 2019-02-06 19:21:24 UTC https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/328451127 21wilcoxm https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/328451544 April 12-Harry Truman is sworn into office, and he vowed to take a strong stance against communism.

August 6 and 9-The United States launched the first atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

September 2-World War II ended, with the United States and the Allies victorious.]]> 2019-02-06 19:21:53 UTC https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/328451544 21linkr https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/328452492 The Warsaw pact is formed between the Soviet Union and many other countries in Eastern Europe in response to the creation of NATO.]]> 2019-02-06 19:23:15 UTC https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/328452492 21wilcoxm https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/328454129  March 12-The Truman Doctrine was made, which called the American people to send support to the countries who were in fear of falling to communism, and launched the plan of containment.

June 5-The Marshall Plan is put into effect, which called for $13 Billion in aid to European countries .

]]> 2019-02-06 19:25:49 UTC https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/328454129 21linkr https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/328454357 The Soviet Union launched the satellite, Sputnik.]]> 2019-02-06 19:26:10 UTC https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/328454357 21linkr https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/328455237 A communist government is established in Cuba.]]> 2019-02-06 19:27:37 UTC https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/328455237 21wilcoxm https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/328456915 In response to Stalin's blockade of the western half of Berlin, Truman sent supplies to be airlifted into the city. The United States and Soviets also fought over Turkey and Iran. Both times, the Soviets backed down.]]> 2019-02-06 19:30:46 UTC https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/328456915 21wilcoxm https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/328457338 NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) was formed, and consisted of Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The organization was made for world protection, so if a country in NATO was attacked by a certain nation, all other countries would attack said nation.]]> 2019-02-06 19:31:29 UTC https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/328457338 21wilcoxm https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/328457567 June 25-The Korean War began, and the United States backed the South Koreans. There were American 33,000 deaths. ]]> 2019-02-06 19:31:55 UTC https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/328457567 21wilcoxm https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/328459272 Senator Joe McCarthy claimed to know of communists in the government, and there was a mass hysteria where no one knew if their own neighbors were communist. However, no real communists were ever found.]]> 2019-02-06 19:34:59 UTC https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/328459272 21wilcoxm https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/328460128  The Vietnam War began, with the United States supporting South Vietnam.]]> 2019-02-06 19:36:43 UTC https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/328460128 21wilcoxm https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/328460721 The United States discovered that communist Cuba had Soviet missiles, and that they could be fired at the United States cities. These missiles were eventually removed from Cuba.]]> 2019-02-06 19:37:37 UTC https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/328460721 21wilcoxm https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/328461567 The Vietnam War was becoming more and more unpopular in the United States, with many pleading to pull out of the war.]]> 2019-02-06 19:39:09 UTC https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/328461567 21wilcoxm https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/328462005 The US put Neil Armstrong on the moon, which was a huge leap forward in the space race.]]> 2019-02-06 19:39:58 UTC https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/328462005 21linkr https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/328462117 Khrushchev pressures East Germany into making the Berlin Wall.

]]> 2019-02-06 19:40:12 UTC https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/328462117 21linkr https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/328463403 China and the Soviet Union break their alliance. Also the Soviet Union and the US sign the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty which limited the number of nuclear warheads and weapons systems each country could maintain.

]]> 2019-02-06 19:42:26 UTC https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/328463403 21wilcoxm https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/328463752 Nixon met with the Soviets and developed the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty which set a limit on how many nukes one nation could have. The treaty, however, really didn't do a whole lot, as the arms race soon picked up again.]]> 2019-02-06 19:43:01 UTC https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/328463752 21wilcoxm https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/328464171 The United States pulled out of the Vietnam War, and soon after, the country fell to communism.]]> 2019-02-06 19:43:42 UTC https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/328464171 21wilcoxm https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/328465242 Reagan was elected president, and spent large sums of money on defence, and was very vocal about the US’s stance against communism.]]> 2019-02-06 19:45:35 UTC https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/328465242 21wilcoxm https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/328466017 The Soviet Union began to ease up on the European nations it controlled. With this, a better relationship with the United States formed. ]]> 2019-02-06 19:46:54 UTC https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/328466017 21linkr https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/328466032 North Vietnam overruns South Vietnam.]]> 2019-02-06 19:46:56 UTC https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/328466032 21wilcoxm https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/328466665 The Cold War ended.]]> 2019-02-06 19:48:11 UTC https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/328466665 21linkr https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/328466820 The Soviet Union and the US sign the second Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty which further limited the new nuclear technologies. The Soviet Union and Cuba support communism in Nicaragua along with Brezhnev’s invasion of Afghanistan. ]]> 2019-02-06 19:48:31 UTC https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/328466820 21linkr https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/328939385 The Soviet Union starts cracking down on dissent at home and in other Eastern European countries in response to American aggression. They also start building up their military.

]]> 2019-02-07 19:31:29 UTC https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/328939385 21linkr https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/328940615 Mikhail Gorbachev takes power and starts building better relations with the US. He also relaxes the Soviet Union’s grip on the rest of Eastern Europe.

]]> 2019-02-07 19:33:32 UTC https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/328940615 21linkr https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/328941746 The Soviet Union stops supporting communist countries in Eastern Europe leaving many countries vulnerable and generally resulting in them creating democratic governments.]]> 2019-02-07 19:35:23 UTC https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/328941746 21linkr https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/328945109 East and West Germany are united under a liberal democratic regime.]]> 2019-02-07 19:40:59 UTC https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/328945109 21linkr https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/328945586 National movements begin destroying the Soviet Union and result in the removal of the communist system. The Soviet Union is torn into many different regions with the largest being the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.

]]> 2019-02-07 19:41:32 UTC https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/328945586 21wilcoxm https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/329042849 2019-02-08 01:18:51 UTC https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/329042849 21wilcoxm https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/329043385 2019-02-08 01:21:44 UTC https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/329043385 21wilcoxm https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/329043859 2019-02-08 01:25:13 UTC https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/329043859 21wilcoxm https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/329044378 2019-02-08 01:28:13 UTC https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/329044378 21wilcoxm https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/329057128 2019-02-08 02:49:13 UTC https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/329057128 21wilcoxm https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/329277793 2019-02-08 16:26:22 UTC https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/329277793 21wilcoxm https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/329300168 2019-02-08 17:06:15 UTC https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/329300168 21wilcoxm https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/329301083 2019-02-08 17:08:02 UTC https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/329301083 21wilcoxm https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/329302195 2019-02-08 17:10:22 UTC https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/329302195 21wilcoxm https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/329304181 2019-02-08 17:14:22 UTC https://padlet.com/21wilcoxm/6cdr20sxni9k/wish/329304181