World History by Yailin Sanchez https://padlet.com/417851/enfh04avcjg7 By Yailin Sanchez & Aylin Camacho en-us 2016-07-26 18:30:13 UTC 2025-10-13 03:19:14 UTC hello@padlet.com The Yalta Conference 417851 https://padlet.com/417851/enfh04avcjg7/wish/117016659 *The meeting was intended mainly to discuss the re-establishment of the nations of war-torn Europe. Within a few years

*Winston Churchill, Soviet premier Joseph Stalin, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt ]]> 2016-07-26 18:35:31 UTC https://padlet.com/417851/enfh04avcjg7/wish/117016659 U.S. involvement in the Cold War. 417851 https://padlet.com/417851/enfh04avcjg7/wish/117017032 *NATO
The United States and 11 other Western nations to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). The Soviet Union and its affiliated Communist nations in Eastern Europe founded a rival alliance, the Warsaw Pact, in 1955. 
*Truman Doctrine
The Truman Doctrine, President Harry S. Truman established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations that are against communism.
*Marshall Plan
The Marshall Planwas the Truman Administration's plan to rebuild war-torn Europe in order to prevent the spread of communism, facilitate global trade and free markets, and encourage European peace.
*Cuban Missile Crisis
During the Cuban Missile Crisis, leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S. shores.
* Containment
Containment was a United States policy using numerous strategies to prevent the spread of communism abroad. 





]]> 2016-07-26 18:42:05 UTC https://padlet.com/417851/enfh04avcjg7/wish/117017032 Vietnam War 342752 https://padlet.com/417851/enfh04avcjg7/wish/117017105 November 1, 1955 – April 30, 1975
• North Vietnam 
• South Vietnam
• Viet Cong
•  U.S.
North Vietnam won

]]> 2016-07-26 18:44:01 UTC https://padlet.com/417851/enfh04avcjg7/wish/117017105 Korean War  342752 https://padlet.com/417851/enfh04avcjg7/wish/117017171 June 25, 1950 – July 27, 1953
• North Korea
• South Korea
No one won they divided ]]> 2016-07-26 18:45:12 UTC https://padlet.com/417851/enfh04avcjg7/wish/117017171 Know about President Nixon’s contributions to the Cold War. 342752 https://padlet.com/417851/enfh04avcjg7/wish/117017544 • Detente means cooperation 
• Ping-pong diplomacy refers to the exchange of ping-pong players between the United States and People's Republic of China in the early 1970s.]]> 2016-07-26 18:53:07 UTC https://padlet.com/417851/enfh04avcjg7/wish/117017544 When did East and West Germany finally reunify? 342752 https://padlet.com/417851/enfh04avcjg7/wish/117017673 • In 1989, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev started to open the Soviet Union to the west.
• Many of the communist countries also opened the door into freedom for their citizens. 
• Public protest grew inside the country of East Germany.
• After some tries to keep the country stable, the border was finally opened on 9th November 1989. 
During 11 months the terms of unification were negotiated, with respect to Germany, was signed which led the way towards reunification.]]> 2016-07-26 18:56:37 UTC https://padlet.com/417851/enfh04avcjg7/wish/117017673 Know about the fall of the Soviet Union. 342752 https://padlet.com/417851/enfh04avcjg7/wish/117018122 To reform the distraught Soviet Union, the democratization of the Communist Party was promoted through Party Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev's policies of “perestroika” and “glasnost." Perestroika refers to the reconstruction of the political and economic system established by the Communist Party.]]> 2016-07-26 19:09:38 UTC https://padlet.com/417851/enfh04avcjg7/wish/117018122 Soviet Involvement in the Cold War. 417851 https://padlet.com/417851/enfh04avcjg7/wish/117074640  *Iron Curtain
The notional barrier separating the former Soviet bloc and the West prior to the decline of communism that followed the political events in eastern Europe in 1989.
* What did Stalin say about free elections after WWII?
 Stalin did not allow free elections to take place in Eastern Europe and instead moved to install puppet regimes loyal to the Soviet Union throughout the region.
*Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact was a treaty signed in Warsaw, included the Soviet Union, Albania, Poland, Romania, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Bulgaria as members. The treaty called on the member states to come to the defense of any member attacked by an outside force and it set up a unified military command under Marshal Ivan S. Konev of the Soviet Union.]]> 2016-07-27 14:52:36 UTC https://padlet.com/417851/enfh04avcjg7/wish/117074640 Cold War Events 342752 https://padlet.com/417851/enfh04avcjg7/wish/117074803   The Bay of Pigs did not involve any pigs at all. The Bay of Pigs Invation was an attempt made by the CIA of the U.S. to overthrow Fidel Castro using Cuban exiles that fled the country when Fidel Castro came to power. 
The Berlin Airlift - Soviets placed a blockade on the allied sector of Berlin to starve the population into Soviet alliance. The blockade was a soviet attempt to starve out the allies in Berlin in order to gain supremacy. The blockade was a high point in the cold war, and it led to the berlin airlift. The allied response was a unbelievably massive air supply- flying night and day to feed the city.]]> 2016-07-27 14:55:11 UTC https://padlet.com/417851/enfh04avcjg7/wish/117074803 The Space Race 417851 https://padlet.com/417851/enfh04avcjg7/wish/117075454 *How did it affect the Soviet Union and America.
the Soviet Union and the United States had a great deal of affect on American Politics. Theses two world super powers were put under great strain during this intense rivalry. The soviet Union could not complete it because of their budget.
*Who won the space race?
Most people agree that the space race ended on July 20, 1969, when Neil Armstrong stepped onto the moon for the first time so the U.S won.
*What events were important during the space race?
October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik 1, the world’s first artificial satellite.
After the launch of Sputnik 1 and 2, the United States stepped up in its efforts to launch its own artificial satellite and on January 31, 1958.
The Apollo 11 spacecraft took off from the Kennedy Space Center on July 16, 1969.  ]]> 2016-07-27 15:05:35 UTC https://padlet.com/417851/enfh04avcjg7/wish/117075454 Proxy Wars 417851 https://padlet.com/417851/enfh04avcjg7/wish/117076359 *Is a war instigated by a major power that does not itself become involved
*Vietnam
the Soviets and Chinese had armed and equipped Vietnamese opponents of U.S. forces in Vietnam. The U.S did this so Vietnam did not turn communism.
* Korea
At the end of WWII an agreement was made to temporarily split Korea along the 38th parallel, dividing the country into north and south. ]]> 2016-07-27 15:21:37 UTC https://padlet.com/417851/enfh04avcjg7/wish/117076359