https://padlet.com/153004229/9g9na81okwwv1rbh en-us 2020-04-21 00:59:04 UTC 2020-04-21 18:24:05 UTC hello@padlet.com 153004229 https://padlet.com/153004229/9g9na81okwwv1rbh/wish/518953563 The Allies formed the United Nations so as to try and stop World War three from happening. The United Nations was formed on United Nations Day , 1945. there have been 51 original member nations including 5 permanent Security Council members: China, France, the Soviet Union , the United Kingdom , and therefore the United States .]]> 2020-04-21 01:05:01 UTC https://padlet.com/153004229/9g9na81okwwv1rbh/wish/518953563 153004229 https://padlet.com/153004229/9g9na81okwwv1rbh/wish/518957055 The Berlin Blockade was an effort in 1948 by the Soviet Union to limit the power of France, Great Britain and also the United States to visit their sectors of Berlin, which lay within Russian-occupied East Germany. The Berlin Aircraft might be called the primary battle of the conflict . It had been when western countries delivered much food and supplies was needed in Berlin. This was through the air because all other routes were blocked by the Soviet Union .]]> 2020-04-21 01:07:51 UTC https://padlet.com/153004229/9g9na81okwwv1rbh/wish/518957055 153004229 https://padlet.com/153004229/9g9na81okwwv1rbh/wish/518963092 The Yalta Conference was held on February 4th through the 11th of the year 1945. President Roosevelt represented the United States. Winston Churchill represented the United Kingdom. Josef Stalin represented the USSR. The Yalta Conference was arranged to discuss how the Nazi territory should be divided up and how Nazis should also be punished. The agreements made at Yalta were that Nazi war criminals were to be hunted down, Germany was to be divided into 4 zones as well as Berlin, Germany was to pay war reparations, Stalin agreed to enter the was against Japan, and there was to be free elections to be held in Eastern Europe.]]> 2020-04-21 01:12:57 UTC https://padlet.com/153004229/9g9na81okwwv1rbh/wish/518963092 153004229 https://padlet.com/153004229/9g9na81okwwv1rbh/wish/518969627 The Korean War was brought about due to the fact that North Korea, China, and the Soviet Union all desired the Korean Peninsula to be a communist area. North Korean troops proceeded to march into South Korea. This set off the war. The Korean War ended due to the fact the US, the People's Republic of China, North Korea and South Korea agreed to an armistice.]]> 2020-04-21 01:18:18 UTC https://padlet.com/153004229/9g9na81okwwv1rbh/wish/518969627 153004229 https://padlet.com/153004229/9g9na81okwwv1rbh/wish/518973339 The COMECON was an economic organization under the Soviet Union. This organization comprises the countries of the Eastern Bloc as well as a number of communist states elsewhere in the world. Their goal was to take control of countries.]]> 2020-04-21 01:21:40 UTC https://padlet.com/153004229/9g9na81okwwv1rbh/wish/518973339 153004229 https://padlet.com/153004229/9g9na81okwwv1rbh/wish/518975021 Oct. 4, 1957: First man-made object in space. Satellite. Used to broadcast radio alerts to the Soviet Union. Caused worry in the Americans because this advised that the Soviets had top of the line technology (nuclear weapons and ICBMs included) and spurred the advent of NASA.]]> 2020-04-21 01:23:11 UTC https://padlet.com/153004229/9g9na81okwwv1rbh/wish/518975021 153004229 https://padlet.com/153004229/9g9na81okwwv1rbh/wish/518977972 The Cuban Missile was on October of 1962 that lasted thirteen days. Nuclear-armed Soviet missiles had been on Cuba, simply ninety miles from the U.S. shore. John F. Kennedy made it clear the United States would use navy pressure if critical to neutralize the missile threat. Nikita Khrushchev, a soviet chief offered to put off the Cuban Missiles in alternate for the United States promising no longer to invade Cuba. This was once necessary due to the fact that it was once the closest the Cold War came to escalating to a nuclear war]]> 2020-04-21 01:25:52 UTC https://padlet.com/153004229/9g9na81okwwv1rbh/wish/518977972 153004229 https://padlet.com/153004229/9g9na81okwwv1rbh/wish/519012475 Bay of Pigs was in April in the year of 1961. A failed assault of 1,500 Cuban exiles, backed up through the CIA, on Cuba. John F. Kennedy was once embarrassed. Bay of Pigs came about due to the fact that it was once supposed to launch a revolution on Fidel Castro, however it did not. Castro was once organized for the workable take-over and without problems defeated the tried coup. The Bay of Pigs made John F. Kennedy appear vulnerable to Americans because he wasn't taking a strong adequate stand up to Communism. Kennedy did now not recognize adequate about the CIA-launched mission, and wasn't prepared to ship direct army contact. Bay of Pigs was a complete fiasco for US and it gave Castro self assurance and propaganda material.]]> 2020-04-21 01:55:06 UTC https://padlet.com/153004229/9g9na81okwwv1rbh/wish/519012475 153004229 https://padlet.com/153004229/9g9na81okwwv1rbh/wish/519017461 On August 6, 1945, all through World War II (1939-45), an American B-29 bomber dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese metropolis of Hiroshima. The explosion wiped out ninety percent of the town and straight away killed 80,000 people; tens of thousands extra would later die of radiation exposure. ]]> 2020-04-21 01:59:30 UTC https://padlet.com/153004229/9g9na81okwwv1rbh/wish/519017461 153004229 https://padlet.com/153004229/9g9na81okwwv1rbh/wish/519021884  Three days later, a 2nd B-29 dropped another A-bomb on Nagasaki. This one killed an estimating of 40,000 people. Japan's Emperor Hirohito introduced his country's unconditional surrender in World War II in a radio tackle on August 15, citing the devastating energy of a new and most merciless bomb.]]> 2020-04-21 02:03:16 UTC https://padlet.com/153004229/9g9na81okwwv1rbh/wish/519021884 153004229 https://padlet.com/153004229/9g9na81okwwv1rbh/wish/519029530 On December 1979, the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan and killed Amin alongside with many of his supporters. It put the Afghan communist Karmal in power, hoping he ought to obtain famous support. However, the civil combat persevered and many Afghan troops left the military to be part of the resistance. The Soviet's invaded because Amin was a communist however the Soviets did not believe him. They even feared that he would possibly be an American spy. They hoped Karmal could be a more popular chief and end Muslim corporations from taking over. If Islamic radicals did take over, Brezhnev was concerned it would destabilize south of the Soviet Union. Brezhnev hoped the United States would tolerate the invasion and idea they may additionally share his worries with Islamic radicalization.]]> 2020-04-21 02:09:34 UTC https://padlet.com/153004229/9g9na81okwwv1rbh/wish/519029530 153004229 https://padlet.com/153004229/9g9na81okwwv1rbh/wish/519031490 The Truman Doctrine was a U.S. foreign policy that was established in 1947 by President Harry S. Truman. This provided economic and military useful resources to countries. This was mostly in Greece and Turkey that had been trying to face up to communism. Truman Doctrine dedicated the United States to a foreign coverage primarily based on Kennan's method of containment. Truman hoped to give up the spread of communism, limiting the system to nations in which it already existed. The United States believed it had to battle this effort, with resource as needed and with pressure if necessary.]]> 2020-04-21 02:11:14 UTC https://padlet.com/153004229/9g9na81okwwv1rbh/wish/519031490 153004229 https://padlet.com/153004229/9g9na81okwwv1rbh/wish/519037137 The Berlin Wall was a barrier built by the German Democratic Republic starting on the thirteen of August in the year 1961. This wall totally cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. The Berlin Wall was once constructed due to the fact that many East Germans fled to the West as EG was pretty unpopular, over 2.7 million refugees tried to escape. This used to be a trouble for Khrushchev as it made him appear bad. So in 1958 Khrushchev declared that the entire of Berlin belonged to East Germany and gave the three powers 6 months to withdraw. When they refused Krushchev located another way to "solve" the problem. On thirteenth of August 1961 a 30 mile barrier was constructed throughout the town of Berlin overnight. After the wall was constructed many tried to get away to Western Berlin from the East. It prevented struggle between the two facets however nonetheless conflict arose. It grew to be a effective symbol of division of Germany and the division of Europe.]]> 2020-04-21 02:16:05 UTC https://padlet.com/153004229/9g9na81okwwv1rbh/wish/519037137 153004229 https://padlet.com/153004229/9g9na81okwwv1rbh/wish/519041890 The day Mao announces the beginning of the new government for China, The People's Republic of China ended in the year 1976. The conference in Peking was both a get together of the communist victory in the lengthy civil war towards Nationalist Chinese forces

]]> 2020-04-21 02:20:08 UTC https://padlet.com/153004229/9g9na81okwwv1rbh/wish/519041890 153004229 https://padlet.com/153004229/9g9na81okwwv1rbh/wish/519057957 After Nasser nationalized the Suez Canal in 1956, Israel, France, and Britain secretly make a pact to get rid of Nasser so that they can maintain control in the location. In 1956, Israel attacks and holds the canal whilst Britain and France bomb Egypt. This initiates the Sinai War. Arab nations reduce off oil trade to Europe.]]> 2020-04-21 02:33:26 UTC https://padlet.com/153004229/9g9na81okwwv1rbh/wish/519057957 153004229 https://padlet.com/153004229/9g9na81okwwv1rbh/wish/519068535 The communist leader in Vietnam was pushing communism to its people. Vietnam was under French control however they didn't desire to be anymore so a war broke out. The US helped the french because China used to be now communist and North Korea had simply become communist and it was once sweeping Asia. The Vietnam War ended with an settlement referred to as the Paris Peace Accords. This settlement between the United States and North Vietnam cited that the US would pull out all of it is ultimate troops from the country, in return for all of the Americans being held of prisoners of battle to be returned and released.]]> 2020-04-21 02:42:42 UTC https://padlet.com/153004229/9g9na81okwwv1rbh/wish/519068535 153004229 https://padlet.com/153004229/9g9na81okwwv1rbh/wish/519080254 Eisenhower’s Domino Theory stated that if one state became communist that the surrounding states would follow in a domino effect. The United States feared the spread in Asia and surrounding country's because of the increase of communism.]]> 2020-04-21 02:52:50 UTC https://padlet.com/153004229/9g9na81okwwv1rbh/wish/519080254 153004229 https://padlet.com/153004229/9g9na81okwwv1rbh/wish/519087752 The Warsaw Pact was a army alliance between all of the communist east European countries, headed with the aid of the Soviet Union in 1955. It was once designed as a response to NATO. Members were to support each other if attacked. This pact was composed by Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Soviet Union. The formation of NATO in 1949 altered the stability of power in Europe in the West's favor. Stalin wished his personal rival alliance to ensure parity with the west.The addition of West Germany to NATO in 1955 along with over a million more German troopers accelerated the want for the USSR to create a navy alliance. The USSR answered to NATO through growing the Warsaw Pact which was once a army alliance of Eastern European countries. The countries agreed to appreciate each other's independence and to defend each other in the event of war. Unlike NATO, the Warsaw Pact countries had been strictly dominated with the aid of the USSR.]]> 2020-04-21 02:59:23 UTC https://padlet.com/153004229/9g9na81okwwv1rbh/wish/519087752 153004229 https://padlet.com/153004229/9g9na81okwwv1rbh/wish/519099835 The Khmer Rouge was a communist militant group that invaded Phnom Penh. They controlled Cambodia till 1979. They went into the town in April 1975. They informed the people that the American's had been going to bomb the town so they had to evacuate every person to the countryside. They did not favor the humans to remain in Phnom Penh collectively because the residents have been too effective as a complete group. Pol Pot's main purpose was to turn Cambodia back into an agricultural society. He desired to do away with all "western thoughts and influence." In order to meet this goal, Pol Pot started out killing all of the trained humans in Cambodia, such as doctors, lawyers, teachers, politicians, etc. The Killing Fields are the areas of rural Cambodia where well over 1 million Cambodians had been taken to be killed or buried by the Khmer Rouge. There are many specific killing field areas in rural Cambodia.]]> 2020-04-21 03:10:51 UTC https://padlet.com/153004229/9g9na81okwwv1rbh/wish/519099835 153004229 https://padlet.com/153004229/9g9na81okwwv1rbh/wish/519117514 Gorbachev felt the the Soviet Union would no longer compete with the USA and the Soviet Union should be reformed. Gorbachev's new policies were the Perestroika and the Glasnost. Perestroika would changed the economic policies to allow more competition and incentives to produce good, this changed the government. Glasnost would have some openness in government. Gorbachev thought people should be allowed with reason to say what they believe in, with more open debate]]> 2020-04-21 03:28:23 UTC https://padlet.com/153004229/9g9na81okwwv1rbh/wish/519117514 153004229 https://padlet.com/153004229/9g9na81okwwv1rbh/wish/519130085 In 1950 North Korea invaded South Korea. The South Korean Army fled and forces from the United Nations got here to help out. The United States supplied the majority of the United Nations forces. Soon the South Korea authorities only occupied a small phase of Korea on the southern tip. At first the United Nations was attempting to protect South Korea,but after the first summer of fighting, President Truman determined to go on the offensive. He stated the war was now about releasing North Korea from communism.It was the first major struggle of the Cold War as the Soviet Union supported North Korea and the United States supported South Korea. The war ended with little resolution. The countries are nevertheless divided today and North Korea is still ruled by a communist regime.]]> 2020-04-21 03:40:59 UTC https://padlet.com/153004229/9g9na81okwwv1rbh/wish/519130085 153004229 https://padlet.com/153004229/9g9na81okwwv1rbh/wish/519143357 The Six-Day War was fought between Israel and a group of Arab nations including Egypt, Syria, Jordan, and Iraq. Israel was super successful, gained more territory, and won the war. They took control of the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, and the Golan Heights. ]]> 2020-04-21 03:53:58 UTC https://padlet.com/153004229/9g9na81okwwv1rbh/wish/519143357 153004229 https://padlet.com/153004229/9g9na81okwwv1rbh/wish/519193216 The Arab-Israeli War of 1948 broke out when 5 Arab nations invaded territory in the former Palestinian mandate without delay following the announcement of the independence of the state of Israel on May 14, 1948.]]> 2020-04-21 04:41:17 UTC https://padlet.com/153004229/9g9na81okwwv1rbh/wish/519193216 153004229 https://padlet.com/153004229/9g9na81okwwv1rbh/wish/520840932 The Hungarians desired an end to Soviet control in Hungary. The Hungarians wanted an end to Soviet control in Hungary because that meant more political freedom and economic improvement through greater contact with the West. The Hungarians opposed Soviet control due to censorship, secret police, Soviet troops, and education. Catholicism was banned by the Soviets in Hungary.]]> 2020-04-21 16:48:13 UTC https://padlet.com/153004229/9g9na81okwwv1rbh/wish/520840932 153004229 https://padlet.com/153004229/9g9na81okwwv1rbh/wish/520881065 The Marshall Plan speech was given at the University of Harvard. The Marshall plan was a U.S. plan. This plan was initiated by the Secretary of State George Marshall and applied from 1948 to 1951, to aid in the economic restoration of Europe after World War II by supplying certain European countries substantial funds. It offered all European nations, along with the Soviet Union, generous funding to rebuild their economies as long as the money was spent on items made in the United States. The plan appealed to many U.S. leaders. Those who supported it wanted to promote democracy in Europe. This meant that they would oppose the spread of communism, therefore reinforcing the Truman Doctrine. They additionally desired to open markets for American items and in addition increase the economy of the United States.]]> 2020-04-21 17:02:58 UTC https://padlet.com/153004229/9g9na81okwwv1rbh/wish/520881065 153004229 https://padlet.com/153004229/9g9na81okwwv1rbh/wish/520921583 The Prague Spring was a four month duration of freedom in Czechoslovakia. The two foremost reasons of the Prague Spring was once because students and writers had been complaining about the lack of freedom in Czechoslovakia and because in 1968 Alexander Dubcek took over from Novotny as Communist Party Secretary. Dubcek was a reformer who desired to reform the Communist system. The penalties that the Prague Spring brought were that Czechoslovakia back to Soviet control, Eastern European countries had been angry, Romania and Yugoslavia shaped alliances with China, which used to be now a rival of the USS, and the Cold War worsened.]]> 2020-04-21 17:17:47 UTC https://padlet.com/153004229/9g9na81okwwv1rbh/wish/520921583 153004229 https://padlet.com/153004229/9g9na81okwwv1rbh/wish/520968819 July 1, 1968: SALT I
These negotiations between the United States and the Soviet Union slowed the arms race in strategic ballistic missiles armed with nuclear weapons. Their intent with this was to by curb the manufacture of strategic missiles that had the ability of carrying nuclear weapons.
June 18, 1979: SALT II
This treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union took the place of the Interim Agreement with a long-term comprehensive treaty that supplied extensive limits on strategic offensive weapons systems.]]> 2020-04-21 17:35:02 UTC https://padlet.com/153004229/9g9na81okwwv1rbh/wish/520968819 153004229 https://padlet.com/153004229/9g9na81okwwv1rbh/wish/520991610 July 31, 1991: START I
This treaty between the United States and the Soviet Union/Russian Federation was once the first to call for reductions of U.S. and Soviet/Russian strategic nuclear weapons and served as a framework for future, greater severe reductions.
January 3, 1993: START II
This treaty between the United States and the Russian Federation carried out reductions in two phases in order to meet the set up restriction on strategic weapons for each states.]]> 2020-04-21 17:43:45 UTC https://padlet.com/153004229/9g9na81okwwv1rbh/wish/520991610 153004229 https://padlet.com/153004229/9g9na81okwwv1rbh/wish/521043775 NATO stands for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. NATO was once created to interact the nuclear threat that the Soviet Union posed. It is essentially an alliance. They join forces and fight any issues that both people have. They are no longer simply used as combat troops. They do assist in conditions like civil unrest which entails peacekeeping and in natural disasters as well.]]> 2020-04-21 18:04:13 UTC https://padlet.com/153004229/9g9na81okwwv1rbh/wish/521043775 153004229 https://padlet.com/153004229/9g9na81okwwv1rbh/wish/521075247 As quickly as democratic elections had been introduced in Hungary there was a mass movement of East German citizens through Hungary to West Germany. As a result, the East German government was forced to announce much greater freedom of travel for East German citizens. As part of this decision, the East German government announced that East Germans would be allowed to cross the border with West Berlin.]]> 2020-04-21 18:16:46 UTC https://padlet.com/153004229/9g9na81okwwv1rbh/wish/521075247