https://padlet.com/340217/ColdWar - Eduardo Duarte Period 3 en-us 2016-06-12 04:00:26 UTC 2016-06-13 03:19:48 UTC hello@padlet.com 340217 https://padlet.com/340217/ColdWar/wish/114399271 The Yalta Conference held to divide Germany up into four sections and Stalin also agreed to allow free elections. The United States, Britain, and the USSR attended this conference. ]]> 2016-06-12 04:03:41 UTC https://padlet.com/340217/ColdWar/wish/114399271 340217 https://padlet.com/340217/ColdWar/wish/114399323 NATO was an organization to sign a treaty in which North Atlantic countries joined in order to keep peace with each other.  The Truman Doctrine was when the U.S would aid countries that were being threatened by the communism of the USSR. The Marshall Plan was a plan in which the U.S would give money to counties in Europe to fix their economy. The Cuban Missile Crisis was an event the occurred for 13 days in Cuba which lead to a confrontation between the U.S and the USSR due to the USSR having nuclear warheads in Cuba which made the U.S feel threatened. Containment was a policy that the U.S used with many strategies in order to get rid of communism. ]]> 2016-06-12 04:07:02 UTC https://padlet.com/340217/ColdWar/wish/114399323 340217 https://padlet.com/340217/ColdWar/wish/114399426 The Iron Curtain was a border that separated former Soviet bloc and West due to communism. After WWII, Stalin said that he would allow his people to do free elections which he later did not do and installed governments dominated the USSR. The  Warsaw Pact was a pact signed by Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union which was a treaty of Mutual Assistance. ]]> 2016-06-12 04:13:47 UTC https://padlet.com/340217/ColdWar/wish/114399426 340217 https://padlet.com/340217/ColdWar/wish/114399430 The Space Race affected both the U.S and the USSR due to its contributions of technology and brought support to both space programs in both nations. Some say that the U.S won the Space Race because they were able to get a man on the moon first. One the major events was when the USSR launched its first satellite named Sputnik which became the first manned object to orbit the Earth. Another major event was when the U.S was launching its first satellite, but failed and lead it to embarrassment.  Another event was when the U.S and the USSR teamed up to complete a mission in space. ]]> 2016-06-12 04:14:03 UTC https://padlet.com/340217/ColdWar/wish/114399430 340217 https://padlet.com/340217/ColdWar/wish/114399436 In Vietnam (1955- 1975) the U.S sent troops just because they were under communism influence, but not to fight and they also went to train other troops.  In Korea (1950-1953) they supported communism and the U.S did not support this they sent troops right away to avoid conflict.]]> 2016-06-12 04:14:28 UTC https://padlet.com/340217/ColdWar/wish/114399436 340217 https://padlet.com/340217/ColdWar/wish/114399440 Detente was a period in the U.S in which President Nixon made peace with the USSR for a moment and they began to trade and get somewhat along.  Ping-Pong Diplomacy was when there was peace with many countries and cooled tensions with the U.S for a while. ]]> 2016-06-12 04:14:59 UTC https://padlet.com/340217/ColdWar/wish/114399440 340217 https://padlet.com/340217/ColdWar/wish/114399445 East and West Germany finally reunified on October 3, 1990 due to the Federal Government of Germany.]]> 2016-06-12 04:15:15 UTC https://padlet.com/340217/ColdWar/wish/114399445 340217 https://padlet.com/340217/ColdWar/wish/114399450 The Glasnost made many changes in the USSR. It allowed multi-candidate elections to take place and also allowed people to criticize the government and changed the political state of the USSR. The Perestroika allowed open policy reformations . Mikhail Gorbachev was the last leader the USSR who got fired for making huge changes to the government of the USSR.

]]> 2016-06-12 04:15:28 UTC https://padlet.com/340217/ColdWar/wish/114399450 340217 https://padlet.com/340217/ColdWar/wish/114399454 Positive effect on the U.S when the Arms Race took place. The positive effect was that the U.S was able to get better and more advanced warfare. Another positive effect was that it could seem powerful to other nations and others would not want to be against the U.S. A negative effect was that since both the U.S and the USSR had powerful nukes that meant they could wipe each other out.]]> 2016-06-12 04:15:46 UTC https://padlet.com/340217/ColdWar/wish/114399454 340217 https://padlet.com/340217/ColdWar/wish/114399456 During the Arms Race both the superpowers of the USSR and the U.S were competing to see who would be better in military power. Both countries would build big nuclear arsenals to try to seem stronger yet none of them used any of them due to M.A.D. The Korean war was between North Korea who was backed up by the USSR versus South Korea who was backed up by the U.S.  North Korea had communism and was not as advanced. Then South Korea was more advanced and had better training and better technology. ]]> 2016-06-12 04:16:00 UTC https://padlet.com/340217/ColdWar/wish/114399456