https://padlet.com/329977/etwpbgipxz56 Made with joy en-us 2016-06-09 18:33:44 UTC 2026-01-08 14:41:41 UTC hello@padlet.com 329977 https://padlet.com/329977/etwpbgipxz56/wish/114252041 The Yalta Conference was a meeting of British prime minister Winston Churchill, Soviet premier Joseph Stalin, and President Franklin D. Roosevelt early in February 1945 as World War II was winding down. Meeting to see how to deal with Germany.]]> 2016-06-09 18:37:15 UTC https://padlet.com/329977/etwpbgipxz56/wish/114252041 329977 https://padlet.com/329977/etwpbgipxz56/wish/114347053 Immediately after World War II, tensions between the United States and USSR escalated, as Soviet forces occupied nearly all of Eastern Europe and set up Communist governments there as a buffer between the Soviet Union and the capitalist West. NATO (the North Atlantic Treaty Organization) is an alliance of 28 member countries roughly bordering the North Atlantic Ocean. Includes Canada, the United States, Turkey and most members of the European Union. The principle that the US should give support to countries or peoples threatened by Soviet forces or communist insurrection. First expressed in 1947 by US President Truman in a speech to Congress seeking aid for Greece and Turkey, the doctrine was seen by the communists as an open declaration of the Cold War. The Marshall Plan  was an American initiative to aid Europe,  to help rebuild European economies after the end of World War II. The Cuban missile crisis was a crisis between Cuba and the US. Where the US suspected missiles from Cuba. Cuba was turning communist since they were wanting aid from the Soviet Union. The Cuban removed their missiles if the US didn't invade them anymore anymore but the US had to get rid of their missiles in Turkey. 

]]> 2016-06-10 16:20:29 UTC https://padlet.com/329977/etwpbgipxz56/wish/114347053 329977 https://padlet.com/329977/etwpbgipxz56/wish/114347059 Proxy Wars: a war instigated by a major power that does not itself become involved. Vietnam War, Korean War, were both Proxy Wars. Where the US and Asia were involved. ]]> 2016-06-10 16:20:33 UTC https://padlet.com/329977/etwpbgipxz56/wish/114347059 329977 https://padlet.com/329977/etwpbgipxz56/wish/114347062 The Space Race was a race to see if the Soviet Union would get more ahead of the US or it would be vice versa. In my opinion the US won since they had the first man on the moon but had many failed missions throughout their experiments.]]> 2016-06-10 16:20:34 UTC https://padlet.com/329977/etwpbgipxz56/wish/114347062 329977 https://padlet.com/329977/etwpbgipxz56/wish/114347063 The Iron Curtain was 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. Stalin broke his promise of free elections in Eastern Europe and installed governments dominated by the Soviet Union. Then American critics charged that Roosevelt, who died two months after the conference, had “sold out” to the Soviets at Yalta. The Warsaw Pact is the name commonly given to the treaty between Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and the Soviet Union, which was signed in Poland in 1955 and was officially called 'The Treaty of Friendship, Co-operation and Mutual Assistance.]]> 2016-06-10 16:20:35 UTC https://padlet.com/329977/etwpbgipxz56/wish/114347063 329977 https://padlet.com/329977/etwpbgipxz56/wish/114347065 On Christmas Day 1991, the Soviet flag flew over the Kremlin in Moscow for the last time. A few days earlier, representatives from 11 Soviet republics (Ukraine, the Russian Federation, Belarus, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan) met in the Kazakh city of Alma-Ata and announced that they would no longer be part of the Soviet Union. ]]> 2016-06-10 16:20:37 UTC https://padlet.com/329977/etwpbgipxz56/wish/114347065 329977 https://padlet.com/329977/etwpbgipxz56/wish/114347073 Nuclear Warfare positive effects was for defenses and advances in technology to end wars quickly Ex: World War 2. But negative are the effects after the nuclear warfare and innocent lives dead.]]> 2016-06-10 16:20:40 UTC https://padlet.com/329977/etwpbgipxz56/wish/114347073 329977 https://padlet.com/329977/etwpbgipxz56/wish/114347212 Detente the easing of hostility or strained relations, especially between countries. Nixon's contribution to the Arm's race against the Soviet Union.]]> 2016-06-10 16:22:42 UTC https://padlet.com/329977/etwpbgipxz56/wish/114347212 329977 https://padlet.com/329977/etwpbgipxz56/wish/114347242 German reunification took place on October 3, 1990, when the areas of the former German Democratic Republic were incorporated into the Federal Republic of Germany, both formed in 1949.]]> 2016-06-10 16:22:59 UTC https://padlet.com/329977/etwpbgipxz56/wish/114347242 329977 https://padlet.com/329977/etwpbgipxz56/wish/114347309 The Arm's Race was an event where the Soviet Union and US were trying to see who had which weaponry or not. As well as the Space race where Nixon the US, and the Soviet Union were trying to see who had the highest level of technology and were more innovated.]]> 2016-06-10 16:23:37 UTC https://padlet.com/329977/etwpbgipxz56/wish/114347309