https://padlet.com/thillmad000/6krjyzbq7lw3x43z Cold War, the open yet restricted rivalry that developed after World War II between the United States and the Soviet Union and their respective allies. The Cold War was waged on political, economic, and propaganda fronts and had only limited recourse to weapons. en-us 2021-02-03 05:39:59 UTC 2021-02-03 06:12:46 UTC hello@padlet.com thillmad000 https://padlet.com/thillmad000/6krjyzbq7lw3x43z/wish/1157034841 The Yalta Conference, also known as the Crimea Conference and code-named Argonaut, held February 4–11, 1945, was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union to discuss the postwar reorganization of Germany and Europe.]]> 2021-02-03 05:41:15 UTC https://padlet.com/thillmad000/6krjyzbq7lw3x43z/wish/1157034841 thillmad000 https://padlet.com/thillmad000/6krjyzbq7lw3x43z/wish/1157038648 The United States detonated two nuclear weapons over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki on August 6 and 9, 1945, respectively. The two bombings killed between 129,000 and 226,000 people, most of whom were civilians, and remain the only use of nuclear weapons in armed conflict.]]> 2021-02-03 05:43:15 UTC https://padlet.com/thillmad000/6krjyzbq7lw3x43z/wish/1157038648 thillmad000 https://padlet.com/thillmad000/6krjyzbq7lw3x43z/wish/1157044091 The Potsdam Conference (July 17-August 2, 1945) was the last of the World War II meetings held by the “Big Three” heads of state. Featuring American President Harry S. Truman, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (and his successor, Clement Attlee) and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin, the talks established a Council of Foreign Ministers and a central Allied Control Council for administration of Germany.]]> 2021-02-03 05:45:59 UTC https://padlet.com/thillmad000/6krjyzbq7lw3x43z/wish/1157044091 thillmad000 https://padlet.com/thillmad000/6krjyzbq7lw3x43z/wish/1157046195 The Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy the stated purpose of which was to contain Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. March 12, 1947]]> 2021-02-03 05:47:04 UTC https://padlet.com/thillmad000/6krjyzbq7lw3x43z/wish/1157046195 thillmad000 https://padlet.com/thillmad000/6krjyzbq7lw3x43z/wish/1157048488 The Berlin Blockade was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post–World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control. June 24, 1948 - May 12, 1949]]> 2021-02-03 05:48:18 UTC https://padlet.com/thillmad000/6krjyzbq7lw3x43z/wish/1157048488 thillmad000 https://padlet.com/thillmad000/6krjyzbq7lw3x43z/wish/1157052620 The Warsaw Pact was a collective defense treaty established by the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet satellite states in Central and Eastern Europe: Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Romania. May 14, 1955]]> 2021-02-03 05:50:28 UTC https://padlet.com/thillmad000/6krjyzbq7lw3x43z/wish/1157052620 thillmad000 https://padlet.com/thillmad000/6krjyzbq7lw3x43z/wish/1157054936 The Marshall Plan was an American initiative passed in April 3, 1948 for foreign aid to Western Europe. The United States transferred over $12 billion in economic recovery programs to Western European economies after the end of World War II.]]> 2021-02-03 05:51:40 UTC https://padlet.com/thillmad000/6krjyzbq7lw3x43z/wish/1157054936 thillmad000 https://padlet.com/thillmad000/6krjyzbq7lw3x43z/wish/1157065125 The Korean War was a war between North Korea and South Korea. The war began on 25 June 1950 when North Korea invaded South Korea following clashes along the border and insurrections in the south. The war ended unofficially on 27 July 1953 in an armistice.]]> 2021-02-03 05:57:02 UTC https://padlet.com/thillmad000/6krjyzbq7lw3x43z/wish/1157065125 thillmad000 https://padlet.com/thillmad000/6krjyzbq7lw3x43z/wish/1157066748 The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, and in Vietnam as the Resistance War Against America or simply the American War, was a conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975.]]> 2021-02-03 05:57:49 UTC https://padlet.com/thillmad000/6krjyzbq7lw3x43z/wish/1157066748 thillmad000 https://padlet.com/thillmad000/6krjyzbq7lw3x43z/wish/1157069548 The Bay of Pigs invasion begins when a CIA-financed and -trained group of Cuban refugees lands in Cuba and attempts to topple the communist government of Fidel Castro. The attack was an utter failure. Fidel Castro had been a concern to U.S. policymakers since he seized power in Cuba with a revolution in January 1959.]]> 2021-02-03 05:59:10 UTC https://padlet.com/thillmad000/6krjyzbq7lw3x43z/wish/1157069548 thillmad000 https://padlet.com/thillmad000/6krjyzbq7lw3x43z/wish/1157072943 The Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989. Construction of the wall was commenced by the German Democratic Republic on 13 August 1961. The Wall cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany, including East Berlin.]]> 2021-02-03 06:00:39 UTC https://padlet.com/thillmad000/6krjyzbq7lw3x43z/wish/1157072943 thillmad000 https://padlet.com/thillmad000/6krjyzbq7lw3x43z/wish/1157073652 During the Cuban Missile Crisis, leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S. shores. ]]> 2021-02-03 06:01:00 UTC https://padlet.com/thillmad000/6krjyzbq7lw3x43z/wish/1157073652 thillmad000 https://padlet.com/thillmad000/6krjyzbq7lw3x43z/wish/1157078118 The Space Race was an informal 20th-century competition between two Cold War rivals, the Soviet Union and the United States, to achieve firsts in spaceflight capability. It had its origins in the ballistic missile-based nuclear arms race between the two nations following World War II. August 2, 1955 – July 20. 1969]]> 2021-02-03 06:03:05 UTC https://padlet.com/thillmad000/6krjyzbq7lw3x43z/wish/1157078118