https://padlet.com/339544/f42wtkva7d78 By Yaritzie Primitivo en-us 2016-06-08 17:59:32 UTC 2025-10-04 15:13:14 UTC hello@padlet.com 339544 https://padlet.com/339544/f42wtkva7d78/wish/114120088 A. Glasnost was a Soviet policy of openness to the free flow of ideas and information, it was introduced by Mikhail Gorbachev in 1985.
B. Gorbachev introduced perestroika in 1985 this was economic restructuring changes were made to revive the Soviet economy in 1986.
C. Mikhail Gorbachev was a Soviet leader.]]> 2016-06-08 18:01:46 UTC https://padlet.com/339544/f42wtkva7d78/wish/114120088 339544 https://padlet.com/339544/f42wtkva7d78/wish/114242876 The U.S. was involved in many things during the Cold War, but one event that I think is important was the space race. They started making many weapons that helped them out such as their own atomic bomb, but it led to people the constant fear of a nuclear annihilation.]]> 2016-06-09 17:12:11 UTC https://padlet.com/339544/f42wtkva7d78/wish/114242876 339544 https://padlet.com/339544/f42wtkva7d78/wish/114242890 East and West Germany finally reunified on October 3, 1990 when five new federal states joined the Federal Republic of Germany.]]> 2016-06-09 17:12:22 UTC https://padlet.com/339544/f42wtkva7d78/wish/114242890 339544 https://padlet.com/339544/f42wtkva7d78/wish/114242902 A. Detente is policy of lessening Cold War tensions it replaced brinkmanship under Nixon.  Both superpowers agreed to pursue detente and to reduce tensions.
B. The Ping-Pong Diplomacy is an exchange of table tennis players between the U.S. and People's Republic of China in the early 1970s.]]> 2016-06-09 17:12:27 UTC https://padlet.com/339544/f42wtkva7d78/wish/114242902 339544 https://padlet.com/339544/f42wtkva7d78/wish/114242904 A. War in Vietnam started when Vietnamese nationalists and communist joined to fight French armies they used hit-and-run tactics to confine the French cities. The U.S. supported France in in Vietnam and in 1954 the French suffered a major military defeat and surrendered to Ho. The U.S. entered the war in August 1964, but President NIxon began withdrawing U.S. troops in 1969 and he came up with a plan called Vietnamization which allowed U.S. troops to gradually pull out while South Vietnamese increased their combat role. After 1975 North Vietnamese imposed tight controls over the South.
B. After WWII ended Korean was divided into North and South by the 38th parallel, North Korea got help from the Soviet Union and South Korea got help from the United States. The war started on June 25, 1950 when North Korea crossed the 38th parallel line and invaded South Korea this war lasted for about three years. In July 1953 a cease-fire agreement was signed and it is still divided up to this day. Four million soldiers and civilians died during this war.]]> 2016-06-09 17:12:31 UTC https://padlet.com/339544/f42wtkva7d78/wish/114242904 339544 https://padlet.com/339544/f42wtkva7d78/wish/114242910 A. Stalin declared that that communism and capitalism could not exist in the same world in a speech so a "iron curtain" divided the East and West. East Germany was named the German Democratic Republic and western zones became the Federal Republic of Germany.
B. Stalin said that free elections in Eastern European nations was a clear violation of those countries rights.
C. The Warsaw pact was a military alliance that formed in 1955, it included the Soviet Union, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and Albania.]]> 2016-06-09 17:12:34 UTC https://padlet.com/339544/f42wtkva7d78/wish/114242910 339544 https://padlet.com/339544/f42wtkva7d78/wish/114242915 A. The cold war affected the science and education programs of the two countries and it led them to loose a big amount of money.
B. The United States won the space race.
C. The Soviet Union launched the first satellite Sputnik on October 4, 1957. The U.S. first successful satellite was launched in 1958 and on July 20, 1969 they put the first human being on the moon.]]> 2016-06-09 17:12:38 UTC https://padlet.com/339544/f42wtkva7d78/wish/114242915 339544 https://padlet.com/339544/f42wtkva7d78/wish/114242924 A. NATO is the North Atlantic Treaty Organization that formed in 1949 by 10 western European nations, the United States, and Canada to form a defensive military alliance.
B.Truman Doctrine was announced by President Truman in 1947 and it was a U.S. policy of giving economic and military aid to free nations threatened by internal or external opponents.
C. The Marshall Plan was a program to provide food, machinery, and other materials to rebuild Western Europe.
D. The Cuban Missile Crisis happened in October 1962 it was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and Soviet Union it was concerning the Soviets ballistic missile deployment in Cuba. Both superpowers came close to a nuclear conflict.
E. Containment was a policy adopted by President Truman in the 1940s that was directed at blocking Soviet influence and stopping the expansion of communism by creating alliances and help weak countries resist Soviet advances.]]> 2016-06-09 17:12:41 UTC https://padlet.com/339544/f42wtkva7d78/wish/114242924 339544 https://padlet.com/339544/f42wtkva7d78/wish/114242929 A. This was a meeting in February 1945 were the leaders agreed to divide Germany into zones of occupation controlled  by the allied military forces. Germany would also have to pay the Soviet Union to compensate for its losses of life and property.
B. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt attended.]]> 2016-06-09 17:12:46 UTC https://padlet.com/339544/f42wtkva7d78/wish/114242929 339544 https://padlet.com/339544/f42wtkva7d78/wish/114446394 One Cold War event was the space race which was between the U.S. and the Soviet Union it was basically a competition to see who had the best technology. The Soviet Union was the first to launch a satellite successfully into space on October 4, 1957 and the U.S. was the first to put the first human being on the moon. The Korean War was between North Korea and South Korea it started on June 25, !950 when North Korea crossed the 38th parallel line and surprised attacked South Korea. This lasted for about three years until a cease-fire agreement was signed in July 1953.]]> 2016-06-13 04:48:39 UTC https://padlet.com/339544/f42wtkva7d78/wish/114446394