https://padlet.com/pamcruz764/cugx5k96v71m Made with panache en-us 2020-01-28 17:14:25 UTC 2023-03-04 00:22:55 UTC hello@padlet.com pamcruz764 https://padlet.com/pamcruz764/cugx5k96v71m/wish/437118041 The Cuban Missile Crisis was a direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and was the moment when the two superpowers came closest to nuclear conflict.]]> 2020-01-28 17:26:16 UTC https://padlet.com/pamcruz764/cugx5k96v71m/wish/437118041 pamcruz764 https://padlet.com/pamcruz764/cugx5k96v71m/wish/437127495  Sputnik sparked the space race between the Soviet Union and the United States.]]> 2020-01-28 17:39:07 UTC https://padlet.com/pamcruz764/cugx5k96v71m/wish/437127495 pamcruz764 https://padlet.com/pamcruz764/cugx5k96v71m/wish/437127681 The Marshall Plan, also known as the European Recovery Program, was a U.S. program providing aid to Western Europe following the devastation of World War II.]]> 2020-01-28 17:39:26 UTC https://padlet.com/pamcruz764/cugx5k96v71m/wish/437127681 pamcruz764 https://padlet.com/pamcruz764/cugx5k96v71m/wish/437127797 A mutual defense organization that put the Soviets in command of the armed forces of the member states.]]> 2020-01-28 17:39:36 UTC https://padlet.com/pamcruz764/cugx5k96v71m/wish/437127797 pamcruz764 https://padlet.com/pamcruz764/cugx5k96v71m/wish/437127920 The couple stood accused of selling nuclear secrets to the Russians at the height of the Cold War and were executed shortly after.]]> 2020-01-28 17:39:47 UTC https://padlet.com/pamcruz764/cugx5k96v71m/wish/437127920 pamcruz764 https://padlet.com/pamcruz764/cugx5k96v71m/wish/437129388 The Vietnam War pitted communist North Vietnam and the Viet Cong against South Vietnam and the United States.]]> 2020-01-28 17:41:57 UTC https://padlet.com/pamcruz764/cugx5k96v71m/wish/437129388 pamcruz764 https://padlet.com/pamcruz764/cugx5k96v71m/wish/437129507 The successful U.S. test meant that the ante in the nuclear arms race had been dramatically upped.]]> 2020-01-28 17:42:07 UTC https://padlet.com/pamcruz764/cugx5k96v71m/wish/437129507 pamcruz764 https://padlet.com/pamcruz764/cugx5k96v71m/wish/437129736 This event is important becasuse this invasion was the first military action of the Cold War.]]> 2020-01-28 17:42:28 UTC https://padlet.com/pamcruz764/cugx5k96v71m/wish/437129736 pamcruz764 https://padlet.com/pamcruz764/cugx5k96v71m/wish/437129852 Under the Eisenhower Doctrine, a country could request American economic assistance and/or aid from U.S. military forces if it was being threatened by armed aggression from another state.]]> 2020-01-28 17:42:37 UTC https://padlet.com/pamcruz764/cugx5k96v71m/wish/437129852 pamcruz764 https://padlet.com/pamcruz764/cugx5k96v71m/wish/437130010 The leaders arrived at various agreements on the German economy, punishment for war criminals, land boundaries and reparations.]]> 2020-01-28 17:42:50 UTC https://padlet.com/pamcruz764/cugx5k96v71m/wish/437130010 pamcruz764 https://padlet.com/pamcruz764/cugx5k96v71m/wish/437130289 The law authorized the construction of a 41,000-mile network of interstate highways that would span the nation.]]> 2020-01-28 17:43:18 UTC https://padlet.com/pamcruz764/cugx5k96v71m/wish/437130289 pamcruz764 https://padlet.com/pamcruz764/cugx5k96v71m/wish/437130420 The United States and United Kingdom responded by airlifting food and fuel to Berlin from Allied airbases in western Germany.]]> 2020-01-28 17:43:29 UTC https://padlet.com/pamcruz764/cugx5k96v71m/wish/437130420 pamcruz764 https://padlet.com/pamcruz764/cugx5k96v71m/wish/437130587 The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created to provide collective security against the Soviet Union.]]> 2020-01-28 17:43:43 UTC https://padlet.com/pamcruz764/cugx5k96v71m/wish/437130587 pamcruz764 https://padlet.com/pamcruz764/cugx5k96v71m/wish/437130671 The Chinese revolution began because of a difference in thinking between the Communist Chinese Communist Party and the Nationalist Kuomintang, there was a fight for legitimacy as the government of China.]]> 2020-01-28 17:43:51 UTC https://padlet.com/pamcruz764/cugx5k96v71m/wish/437130671 pamcruz764 https://padlet.com/pamcruz764/cugx5k96v71m/wish/437131998 it was important because the Soviet Union was a step closer to being as powerful as the US.]]> 2020-01-28 17:45:39 UTC https://padlet.com/pamcruz764/cugx5k96v71m/wish/437131998 pamcruz764 https://padlet.com/pamcruz764/cugx5k96v71m/wish/437132222 The Berlin Wall is significant because it became a symbol of the deep political divisions that split Europe between the so-called capitalist West and the Communist East.]]> 2020-01-28 17:45:57 UTC https://padlet.com/pamcruz764/cugx5k96v71m/wish/437132222