https://padlet.com/pgar8748/72vo0l7th75d Made with a stroke of good luck en-us 2019-12-04 16:05:36 UTC 2025-04-24 12:51:41 UTC hello@padlet.com pgar8748 https://padlet.com/pgar8748/72vo0l7th75d/wish/419722610 founded ussr]]> 2019-12-04 16:06:03 UTC https://padlet.com/pgar8748/72vo0l7th75d/wish/419722610 pgar8748 https://padlet.com/pgar8748/72vo0l7th75d/wish/419724200 founded ussr the Chairman of the Communist Party of China from its establishment in 1949 until his death in 1976.]]> 2019-12-04 16:08:10 UTC https://padlet.com/pgar8748/72vo0l7th75d/wish/419724200 pgar8748 https://padlet.com/pgar8748/72vo0l7th75d/wish/419725427 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was an Indian lawyer, anti-colonial nationalist, and political ethicist, who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British Rule, and in turn inspire movements for civil rights and freedom across the world.]]> 2019-12-04 16:09:41 UTC https://padlet.com/pgar8748/72vo0l7th75d/wish/419725427 pgar8748 https://padlet.com/pgar8748/72vo0l7th75d/wish/419727039 founded ussr The timing of the Great Depression varied across nations; in most countries, it started in 1929 and lasted until the late 1930s. ]]> 2019-12-04 16:11:52 UTC https://padlet.com/pgar8748/72vo0l7th75d/wish/419727039 pgar8748 https://padlet.com/pgar8748/72vo0l7th75d/wish/419728626 In economics, inflation is a sustained increase in the general price level of goods and services in an economy over a period of time.]]> 2019-12-04 16:13:49 UTC https://padlet.com/pgar8748/72vo0l7th75d/wish/419728626 pgar8748 https://padlet.com/pgar8748/72vo0l7th75d/wish/419730056 Fascism is a form of far-right, authoritarian ultranationalism characterized by dictatorial power, forcible suppression of opposition, and strong regimentation of society and of the economy which came to prominence in early 20th-century Europe.]]> 2019-12-04 16:15:47 UTC https://padlet.com/pgar8748/72vo0l7th75d/wish/419730056 pgar8748 https://padlet.com/pgar8748/72vo0l7th75d/wish/419732329 founded ussr The Tripartite Pact, also known as the Berlin Pact, was an agreement between Germany, Italy and Japan signed in Berlin on 27 September 1940 by, respectively, Joachim von Ribbentrop, Galeazzo Ciano and Saburō Kurusu.]]> 2019-12-04 16:18:48 UTC https://padlet.com/pgar8748/72vo0l7th75d/wish/419732329 pgar8748 https://padlet.com/pgar8748/72vo0l7th75d/wish/419734249 Appeasement in an international context is a diplomatic policy of making political or material concessions to an aggressive power in order to avoid conflict.]]> 2019-12-04 16:21:06 UTC https://padlet.com/pgar8748/72vo0l7th75d/wish/419734249 pgar8748 https://padlet.com/pgar8748/72vo0l7th75d/wish/419737090 an intense military campaign intended to bring about a swift victory.]]> 2019-12-04 16:25:03 UTC https://padlet.com/pgar8748/72vo0l7th75d/wish/419737090 pgar8748 https://padlet.com/pgar8748/72vo0l7th75d/wish/419738869 Codenamed Operation Neptune and often referred to as D-Day, it was the largest seaborne invasion in history.]]> 2019-12-04 16:27:34 UTC https://padlet.com/pgar8748/72vo0l7th75d/wish/419738869 pgar8748 https://padlet.com/pgar8748/72vo0l7th75d/wish/419739621 Island hopping is the crossing of an ocean by a series of shorter journeys between islands, as opposed to a single journey directly to the destination.]]> 2019-12-04 16:28:39 UTC https://padlet.com/pgar8748/72vo0l7th75d/wish/419739621 pgar8748 https://padlet.com/pgar8748/72vo0l7th75d/wish/419740729 Both bomb types release large quantities of energy from relatively small amounts of matter.]]> 2019-12-04 16:30:05 UTC https://padlet.com/pgar8748/72vo0l7th75d/wish/419740729 pgar8748 https://padlet.com/pgar8748/72vo0l7th75d/wish/419741346 The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the World War II genocide of the European Jews. ]]> 2019-12-04 16:30:56 UTC https://padlet.com/pgar8748/72vo0l7th75d/wish/419741346 pgar8748 https://padlet.com/pgar8748/72vo0l7th75d/wish/419742311 Most historians agree that a genocide against the Tutsi had been planned for at least a year. ]]> 2019-12-04 16:32:14 UTC https://padlet.com/pgar8748/72vo0l7th75d/wish/419742311 pgar8748 https://padlet.com/pgar8748/72vo0l7th75d/wish/419743878 Nazi Germany maintained concentration camps throughout the territories it controlled before and during the Second World War.]]> 2019-12-04 16:34:10 UTC https://padlet.com/pgar8748/72vo0l7th75d/wish/419743878 pgar8748 https://padlet.com/pgar8748/72vo0l7th75d/wish/419744675 The Marshall Plan was an American initiative passed in 1948 to aid Western Europe, in which the United States gave over $12 billion in economic assistance to help rebuild Western European economies after the end of World War II.]]> 2019-12-04 16:35:08 UTC https://padlet.com/pgar8748/72vo0l7th75d/wish/419744675 pgar8748 https://padlet.com/pgar8748/72vo0l7th75d/wish/419746093 The United Nations, is an intergovernmental organization responsible for maintaining international peace and security, developing friendly relations among nations, achieving international cooperation, and being a center for harmonizing the actions of nations.]]> 2019-12-04 16:36:56 UTC https://padlet.com/pgar8748/72vo0l7th75d/wish/419746093 pgar8748 https://padlet.com/pgar8748/72vo0l7th75d/wish/419753586 The United Nations Security Council is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations, charged with ensuring international peace and security, accepting new members to the United Nations and approving any changes to its charter.]]> 2019-12-04 16:46:23 UTC https://padlet.com/pgar8748/72vo0l7th75d/wish/419753586 pgar8748 https://padlet.com/pgar8748/72vo0l7th75d/wish/419754935 Bretton Woods established a system of payments based on the dollar, which defined all currencies in relation to the dollar, itself convertible into gold, and above all, "as good as gold" for trade. ]]> 2019-12-04 16:48:18 UTC https://padlet.com/pgar8748/72vo0l7th75d/wish/419754935 pgar8748 https://padlet.com/pgar8748/72vo0l7th75d/wish/419756483 The organization implements the North Atlantic Treaty that was signed on 4 April 1949. ]]> 2019-12-04 16:50:34 UTC https://padlet.com/pgar8748/72vo0l7th75d/wish/419756483 pgar8748 https://padlet.com/pgar8748/72vo0l7th75d/wish/419757797 the Iron Curtain was initially a non-physical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of World War II in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991]]> 2019-12-04 16:52:33 UTC https://padlet.com/pgar8748/72vo0l7th75d/wish/419757797 pgar8748 https://padlet.com/pgar8748/72vo0l7th75d/wish/419758791 A puppet state, puppet régime or puppet government, is a state that is de jure independent but de facto completely dependent upon an outside power and does its bidding.]]> 2019-12-04 16:54:04 UTC https://padlet.com/pgar8748/72vo0l7th75d/wish/419758791 pgar8748 https://padlet.com/pgar8748/72vo0l7th75d/wish/419760069 Warsaw Pact, formally Warsaw Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance, (May 14, 1955–July 1, 1991) treaty establishing a mutual-defense organization (Warsaw Treaty Organization) composed originally of the Soviet Union and Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania.]]> 2019-12-04 16:56:04 UTC https://padlet.com/pgar8748/72vo0l7th75d/wish/419760069 pgar8748 https://padlet.com/pgar8748/72vo0l7th75d/wish/419761733 Containment is a geopolitical strategic foreign policy pursued by the United States. It is loosely related to the term cordon sanitaire which was later used to describe the geopolitical containment of the Soviet Union in the 1940s. ]]> 2019-12-04 16:58:24 UTC https://padlet.com/pgar8748/72vo0l7th75d/wish/419761733 pgar8748 https://padlet.com/pgar8748/72vo0l7th75d/wish/419763004 The domino theory was a theory prominent from the 1950s to the 1980s that posited that if one country in a region came under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would follow in a domino effect]]> 2019-12-04 16:59:57 UTC https://padlet.com/pgar8748/72vo0l7th75d/wish/419763004 pgar8748 https://padlet.com/pgar8748/72vo0l7th75d/wish/419763875 A nuclear weapon is an explosive device that derives its destructive force from nuclear reactions, either fission or from a combination of fission and fusion reactions. Both bomb types release large quantities of energy from relatively small amounts of matter.]]> 2019-12-04 17:00:57 UTC https://padlet.com/pgar8748/72vo0l7th75d/wish/419763875 pgar8748 https://padlet.com/pgar8748/72vo0l7th75d/wish/419766601 The Great Leap Forward of the People's Republic of China was an economic and social campaign by the Communist Party of China from 1958 to 1962.]]> 2019-12-04 17:04:29 UTC https://padlet.com/pgar8748/72vo0l7th75d/wish/419766601 pgar8748 https://padlet.com/pgar8748/72vo0l7th75d/wish/422276245 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 a series of clashes along the border.]]> 2019-12-10 16:56:34 UTC https://padlet.com/pgar8748/72vo0l7th75d/wish/422276245 pgar8748 https://padlet.com/pgar8748/72vo0l7th75d/wish/422277891 The Bay of Pigs invasion was a failed attempt by US-sponsored Cuban exiles to reverse Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution, beginning with a military invasion of northern Cuba. A Central Intelligence Agency-sponsored rebel group, Brigade 2506, attempted an invasion on 17 April 1961 that lasted just three days.]]> 2019-12-10 16:59:03 UTC https://padlet.com/pgar8748/72vo0l7th75d/wish/422277891 pgar8748 https://padlet.com/pgar8748/72vo0l7th75d/wish/422278839 The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis of 1962, the Caribbean Crisis, or the Missile Scare, was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union initiated by the American discovery of Soviet ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. ]]> 2019-12-10 17:00:18 UTC https://padlet.com/pgar8748/72vo0l7th75d/wish/422278839 pgar8748 https://padlet.com/pgar8748/72vo0l7th75d/wish/422279746 He served as Prime Minister of North Vietnam from 1945 to 1955 and then its President from 1945 to 1969.]]> 2019-12-10 17:01:36 UTC https://padlet.com/pgar8748/72vo0l7th75d/wish/422279746 pgar8748 https://padlet.com/pgar8748/72vo0l7th75d/wish/422280795 The Gulf of Tonkin incident, also known as the USS Maddox incident, was an international confrontation that led to the United States engaging more directly in the Vietnam War.]]> 2019-12-10 17:03:06 UTC https://padlet.com/pgar8748/72vo0l7th75d/wish/422280795 pgar8748 https://padlet.com/pgar8748/72vo0l7th75d/wish/422282077 The term in diplomacy originates around 1912 when France and Germany tried, without success, to reduce tensions. Most often the term is used for a phase of the Cold War.]]> 2019-12-10 17:05:08 UTC https://padlet.com/pgar8748/72vo0l7th75d/wish/422282077 pgar8748 https://padlet.com/pgar8748/72vo0l7th75d/wish/422283336 The concept was first announced publicly by President Ronald Reagan on 23 March 1983. ]]> 2019-12-10 17:06:57 UTC https://padlet.com/pgar8748/72vo0l7th75d/wish/422283336 pgar8748 https://padlet.com/pgar8748/72vo0l7th75d/wish/422284368 In the Russian language the word Glasnost has several general and specific meanings. It has been used in Russian to mean "openness and transparency" since at least the end of the eighteenth century.]]> 2019-12-10 17:08:31 UTC https://padlet.com/pgar8748/72vo0l7th75d/wish/422284368 pgar8748 https://padlet.com/pgar8748/72vo0l7th75d/wish/422799515 Perestroika was a political movement for reformation within the Communist Party of the Soviet Union during the 1980s and is widely associated with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and his glasnost policy reform.]]> 2019-12-11 16:09:25 UTC https://padlet.com/pgar8748/72vo0l7th75d/wish/422799515 pgar8748 https://padlet.com/pgar8748/72vo0l7th75d/wish/422800681 Democratization is the transition to a more democratic political regime, including substantive political changes moving in a democratic direction.]]> 2019-12-11 16:10:58 UTC https://padlet.com/pgar8748/72vo0l7th75d/wish/422800681