https://padlet.com/3000224931/6iacgts30jn7qt4a Made with the best of intentions en-us 2022-05-05 16:42:04 UTC 2025-12-17 16:41:19 UTC hello@padlet.com 3000224931 https://padlet.com/3000224931/6iacgts30jn7qt4a/wish/2171745153 Shortly after Stalin's death a loyal member of the communist party name Nikita Khrushchev became the dominant Soviet leader. At a speech given by Khrushchev he signaled the beginning of a policy called Destalinization, or purging the country of Stalin's memory. Workers destroyed monuments of the Stalin and reburied his body outside the Kremlin wall.]]> 2022-05-05 16:44:37 UTC https://padlet.com/3000224931/6iacgts30jn7qt4a/wish/2171745153 3000224931 https://padlet.com/3000224931/6iacgts30jn7qt4a/wish/2171745631 Czech communist leader Alexander Dubcek loosened controls on censorship to offer his country socialism with "a human face". August 20 1968, Armed forces from the Warsaw pact invaded Czechoslovakia. This invasion was justified by Brezhnev because the Soviet Union has the right to prevent its satellites from rejecting communism]]> 2022-05-05 16:44:54 UTC https://padlet.com/3000224931/6iacgts30jn7qt4a/wish/2171745631 3000224931 https://padlet.com/3000224931/6iacgts30jn7qt4a/wish/2171746496 Definition - A calming of tensions between two sides

Significance - This policy lessened Cold War tensions ]]> 2022-05-05 16:45:25 UTC https://padlet.com/3000224931/6iacgts30jn7qt4a/wish/2171746496 3000224931 https://padlet.com/3000224931/6iacgts30jn7qt4a/wish/2171746799 The Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) was a two-round conference with the United States and the Soviet Union to discuss the limit of nuclear weapons each country could have. The SALT I treaty was signed by Nixon and Brezhnev, and the SALT II agreement was signed by Carter and Brezhnev.

]]> 2022-05-05 16:45:37 UTC https://padlet.com/3000224931/6iacgts30jn7qt4a/wish/2171746799 3000224931 https://padlet.com/3000224931/6iacgts30jn7qt4a/wish/2171747145 Russia has a new younger leader by the name of Mikhail Gorbachev. Gorbachev's reform policies encouraged people to speak their minds about how to fix society it also allowed people to open and own their own businesses. Due to these new policies communism began to fall.]]> 2022-05-05 16:45:51 UTC https://padlet.com/3000224931/6iacgts30jn7qt4a/wish/2171747145 3000224931 https://padlet.com/3000224931/6iacgts30jn7qt4a/wish/2171747500 The Berlin wall was a divide separating East and West Berlin. This divide was put in place by the German Democratic Republic to stop the communist ideology of the Soviet Union. On November 9th, 1989 the Berlin wall fell due to Soviet Union economic problems and countless protest of the people of Germany]]> 2022-05-05 16:46:06 UTC https://padlet.com/3000224931/6iacgts30jn7qt4a/wish/2171747500