10 Things to Know About the Cold War by Edwin Sierra https://padlet.com/351629/d7r2ajxi43cq Edwin Sierra, Mauricio Mora en-us 2017-06-12 18:54:27 UTC 2017-06-20 17:23:52 UTC hello@padlet.com 1. The Yalta Conference 351629 https://padlet.com/351629/d7r2ajxi43cq/wish/176150237 A. What decisions were made?
The Big three agreed to require Germany's surrender near the end of World War 2. They also agreed to set up four zones of occupation within the nation, one for US, one for Soviet Union, one for Great Britain, and one for France. Stalin also agreed to set up free elections in Eastern Europe and that he would join the Asian war on the side of Japan

B. Who attended? (The Big Three)
The Big Three attended the Yalta Conference, these included Winston Churchill from Great Britain, Joseph Stalin from the Soviet Union, and Franklin D. Roosevelt.]]> 2017-06-12 19:07:04 UTC https://padlet.com/351629/d7r2ajxi43cq/wish/176150237 2. Know about U.S. Involvement in the Cold War 351629 https://padlet.com/351629/d7r2ajxi43cq/wish/176150302 A. NATO (Who Set it up?)
NATO is an alliance of the Western nations during the division of Europe in the Cold War that was set up in 1949. It was set up by the US, UK, Iceland, Luxembourg, Belgium, Netherlands, Canada, France, Italy, Portugal, Denmark, Norway, and was set up as a security pact to protect each other from the Communist Soviets.

B. Truman Doctrine (purpose) 1947
The Truman Doctrine were the ideals that President Truman had for anti-Communist nations in Europe. He wanted to help aid the countries that were against the spread of Communism with money and support, and to also protect them from Communist aggression. The Us first aided Turkey and Greece with $400 million.

C. Marshall Plan (what happened and why)
The Marshall Plan was an economic from the US to help the Western Nations of Europe rebuild after the destruction of WWII. The US gave 12.5 billion dollars through this plan to Europe.

D. Cuban Missile Crisis and Bay of Pigs.
The Bay of Pigs was a failed Invasion of Cuba. The CIA had initially trained Cuban refugees to invade Cuba and make it look that the US had no involvement. Cuban dictator, Fidel Castro, had already known of the invasion and quickly put a stop to it at an island shore known as the Bay of Pigs. The Cuban Missile The Cuban Missile Crisis happened a year after in 1962 when Kennedy came to notice that the Soviets had built Nuclear weapons in Cuba 90 miles off of US soil. President Kennedy responded by putting a Naval blockade around Cuba, this tension between the two was the closest the war ever got to being nuclear. This all ended when Kennedy agreed to not invade Cuba and secretly take their Nukes out of Turkey as long as the USSR took theirs out of Cuba.

E. Containment (what was it and what was its goal)
The policy of containment was the US policy of trying to stop the spread of Communism. It's goal was to contain Communism from spreading around the world.]]> 2017-06-12 19:07:37 UTC https://padlet.com/351629/d7r2ajxi43cq/wish/176150302 3. Know About Soviet involvement in the Cold War 351629 https://padlet.com/351629/d7r2ajxi43cq/wish/176151466 A. Iron Curtain
The Iron Curtain was the Border that ran along the center of Europe dividing it between the Western non-Communist countries, and the Eastern Communist Soviet ruled nations. 

B. What did Stalin say about free elections after WWII?

After World War II Stalin promised that Eastern nations controlled by the USSR would have free elections.

C. Warsaw Pact (what was it a response to)
The Warsaw Pact was the alliance the USSR forced upon the Eastern Communist nations saying that they would have each other's back against the West. It was the USSR's response to NATO.]]> 2017-06-12 19:16:35 UTC https://padlet.com/351629/d7r2ajxi43cq/wish/176151466 4. Know about the Space Race 351629 https://padlet.com/351629/d7r2ajxi43cq/wish/176152062 A. How did it affect the Soviet Union and America
It affected both of their standards on education as you needed to be educated in order to be in NASA, it affected their economy as it was expensive to pay for education and to pay for the ships and the missions. It also was another competition between the two as a new war front had been introduced, the space front where they could see who was better technologically.

B. What events were important in the Space Race
Soviet Union launched Sputnik I into space in 1957, first satellite to orbit Earth. In 1959 Soviets put the first probe on the moon, Luna 2. In 1961 first man to orbit Earth. 1969 Neill Armstrong lands on man, first man, puts an end to the Space Race.]]> 2017-06-12 19:21:59 UTC https://padlet.com/351629/d7r2ajxi43cq/wish/176152062 5. Know about Proxy Wars 351629 https://padlet.com/351629/d7r2ajxi43cq/wish/176152405 A. Vietnam
The Vietnam war was a war between North and South Vietnam. It was a poxy war because the North was supported by the Communist Soviet Union and the South was supported by the United States and France. 

B. Korea
The Korean war was a war Between the North and South regions of Vietnam. The South was non-communist nation and the North was full Communist. After the North initially was overpowering the South, the UN intervened sending a mix of 15 of their member's troops to help stop the attack. This was a proxy war because once again it was Non communism vs Communism, and both sides were either supported by the US or the USSR.]]> 2017-06-12 19:25:08 UTC https://padlet.com/351629/d7r2ajxi43cq/wish/176152405 6. Know about President Nixon's contributions to the Cold War 351629 https://padlet.com/351629/d7r2ajxi43cq/wish/176152865 A. Vietnamization

Vietnamization was the policy that President Nixon set up during the Vietnam war where he slowly would take US troops out of South Vietnam and make the Vietnamese more involved in fighting. This resulted with the North completely overpowering the South as soon as there were no US troops.
B. What is detente?
Detente was the policy adopted by President Nixon where the war tensions between the US and USSR would decrease. ]]> 2017-06-12 19:29:09 UTC https://padlet.com/351629/d7r2ajxi43cq/wish/176152865 7. When did East and West Germany finally reunify? 351629 https://padlet.com/351629/d7r2ajxi43cq/wish/176153145 A. What event led to reunification?
They finally reunified on October 3, 1990 after the destruction of the Berlin wall.

]]> 2017-06-12 19:31:37 UTC https://padlet.com/351629/d7r2ajxi43cq/wish/176153145 8.Know about the fall of the Soviet Union 351629 https://padlet.com/351629/d7r2ajxi43cq/wish/176153320 A. Glastnot
Glastnot begun in 1985, it was a policy by the Soviet Union to let openess and free flow of ideas and information. This allowed the citizens to complain about economic problems, and soon began the democratization of the Soviet Union.
B. Perestroika
Perestroika was the reconstruction of the Soviet Economy in 1985, and also was introduced to permit more local decision making. 
C. Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Gorbachev was a former USSR statesman and was the last leader of the Soviet Union. He served from 1985 until 1991 when his party was dissolved.

D. When/why did the Soviet Union break up?]]> 2017-06-12 19:33:10 UTC https://padlet.com/351629/d7r2ajxi43cq/wish/176153320 9. Communist China 342900 https://padlet.com/351629/d7r2ajxi43cq/wish/176153454 A. Why Chinese communists took control 1949  
China split into 2 parts Communist China led by Mao Zedong and Nationalist China led by Jiang Jieshi.They were at war with each other for control of all of China; they teamed up temporarily to fight Japan 

B. Cultural Revolution
The cultural Revolution was the revolution by the Red Guards where they slaughtered over 2 million people in order to enforce the Communist ideas among China. 
C. Great Leap Forward 
. The Great Leap Forward by was disastrous by any measure. Labour and resources were redirected into industrial production, so that China might “catch up to the West” in one fell swoop.


]]> 2017-06-12 19:34:32 UTC https://padlet.com/351629/d7r2ajxi43cq/wish/176153454 10. Creation of Israel 351629 https://padlet.com/351629/d7r2ajxi43cq/wish/176153663 A. When/why Israel was created
May 14, 1948, created as an escape land for the Jews after the horrors of World War 2


B. What is the Israeli/Palestinian conflict about?
The israeli-palestinian conflict is the ongoing struggle between israelis and palestinians that began in the mid-20th century.

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