https://padlet.com/kanel3/f69z9w5ba0dboelh Liam Kane en-us 2021-09-23 17:12:25 UTC 2021-09-27 17:30:02 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f680.png kanel3 https://padlet.com/kanel3/f69z9w5ba0dboelh/wish/1763707494 The Americans drop the first atomic bomb from a B29 superfortress named Enola Gay later that day a second bomb was dropped on Japan ending WW2.

]]> 2021-09-23 17:45:25 UTC https://padlet.com/kanel3/f69z9w5ba0dboelh/wish/1763707494 kanel3 https://padlet.com/kanel3/f69z9w5ba0dboelh/wish/1763719815 The Russians test their atomic bomb. This is the thing that really starts the cold war. ]]> 2021-09-23 17:50:29 UTC https://padlet.com/kanel3/f69z9w5ba0dboelh/wish/1763719815 kanel3 https://padlet.com/kanel3/f69z9w5ba0dboelh/wish/1763728208 The Korean war began when the US took the side of the South Koreans when USSR backed North Koreans invaded the war ended with a tie. ]]> 2021-09-23 17:54:04 UTC https://padlet.com/kanel3/f69z9w5ba0dboelh/wish/1763728208 kanel3 https://padlet.com/kanel3/f69z9w5ba0dboelh/wish/1771105637 The Vietnam War starts, many new weapons such as attack helicopters and missiles are used.

]]> 2021-09-27 13:28:24 UTC https://padlet.com/kanel3/f69z9w5ba0dboelh/wish/1771105637 kanel3 https://padlet.com/kanel3/f69z9w5ba0dboelh/wish/1771139835 The Cuban missile crisis begins when the USSR installs nuclear missiles on Cuba that could hit U.S. shores in minutes. the U.S. blockades Cuba the and the Russians surrender in this time humans were closest to global annihilation.]]> 2021-09-27 13:37:25 UTC https://padlet.com/kanel3/f69z9w5ba0dboelh/wish/1771139835 kanel3 https://padlet.com/kanel3/f69z9w5ba0dboelh/wish/1771177340 The USSR launches Sputnik 1 starting the space race.]]> 2021-09-27 13:47:01 UTC https://padlet.com/kanel3/f69z9w5ba0dboelh/wish/1771177340 kanel3 https://padlet.com/kanel3/f69z9w5ba0dboelh/wish/1771891459 Operation Chrome Dome took place at the very height of the Cold War where B52 Stratofortress bombers circled the USSR. But after 2 close calls where the bombers crashed with live nuclear weapons, the project was cancelled.]]> 2021-09-27 17:10:25 UTC https://padlet.com/kanel3/f69z9w5ba0dboelh/wish/1771891459 kanel3 https://padlet.com/kanel3/f69z9w5ba0dboelh/wish/1771921058 Yuri Gagarin becomes the first person to orbit the earth. This escalates the space race, Then months later US astronaut John Glenn goes to orbit the earth.

]]> 2021-09-27 17:20:29 UTC https://padlet.com/kanel3/f69z9w5ba0dboelh/wish/1771921058 kanel3 https://padlet.com/kanel3/f69z9w5ba0dboelh/wish/1771933815 The Tet Offensive begins and marks the height of the Vietnam war. This was also a bad defeat to the communists 50,000 North Vietnamese and Soviet troops were lost vs. 1580 U.S. troops making it an absolute disaster for the soviets. 

]]> 2021-09-27 17:24:53 UTC https://padlet.com/kanel3/f69z9w5ba0dboelh/wish/1771933815 kanel3 https://padlet.com/kanel3/f69z9w5ba0dboelh/wish/1771937998 U.S. astronauts  Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Micheal Collins took off to the moon where the famous words “One small step for man… one giant leap for mankind".

]]> 2021-09-27 17:26:18 UTC https://padlet.com/kanel3/f69z9w5ba0dboelh/wish/1771937998 kanel3 https://padlet.com/kanel3/f69z9w5ba0dboelh/wish/1771948786 The Vietnam war ends thousands of U.S. P.O.W.s, pilots, soldiers and sailors all come home after countless years of fighting. the USSR and U.S. become frenemies usually always keeping an eye on one another. On December 25th 1991 the Soviet Union fell. ]]> 2021-09-27 17:30:02 UTC https://padlet.com/kanel3/f69z9w5ba0dboelh/wish/1771948786