https://padlet.com/345225/gm54sutac3un Made with big dreams en-us 2017-06-12 16:18:57 UTC 2017-06-13 04:38:42 UTC hello@padlet.com 345225 https://padlet.com/345225/gm54sutac3un/wish/176125744 The Cold War was a state of geopolitical tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc and powers in the Western Bloc.]]> 2017-06-12 16:20:48 UTC https://padlet.com/345225/gm54sutac3un/wish/176125744 345225 https://padlet.com/345225/gm54sutac3un/wish/176126351 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. The U.S., USSR, and Britain met at the Soviet Black sea and agreed to divide Germany into zones of occupation controlled by the Allied military forces.]]> 2017-06-12 16:24:49 UTC https://padlet.com/345225/gm54sutac3un/wish/176126351 345225 https://padlet.com/345225/gm54sutac3un/wish/176127827 It was set up because they wanted to form a defensive military  alliance. The purpose of the Truman Doctrine was to support countries that rejected communism.  When congress debated the $12.5 billion program , the communists seized power.  A confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union in 1962 over the presence of missile sites in Cuba; one of the “hottest” periods of the cold war. On April 17, 1961, 1400 Cuban exiles launched what became a botched invasion at the Bay of Pigs on the south coast of Cuba. In 1959, Fidel Castro came to power in an armed revolt that overthrew Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista.]]> 2017-06-12 16:34:44 UTC https://padlet.com/345225/gm54sutac3un/wish/176127827 345225 https://padlet.com/345225/gm54sutac3un/wish/176131361 The 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. Stalin said that they can not have free elections because communism and capitalism can not exist in the same world.]]> 2017-06-12 17:00:37 UTC https://padlet.com/345225/gm54sutac3un/wish/176131361 345225 https://padlet.com/345225/gm54sutac3un/wish/176188593 The space race was one example of the competition between the two countries. The Soviet Union took the lead in the space race. In 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik, the first satellite, into space. This affected America and the Soviet Union in a good way because they both had a chance to have a satellite over each other to see if they would throw nuclear bombs at each other.]]> 2017-06-13 03:42:49 UTC https://padlet.com/345225/gm54sutac3un/wish/176188593 345225 https://padlet.com/345225/gm54sutac3un/wish/176188932 The Korean war was in June 25, 1950 – July 27, 1953. Their course of events were  North Korea invades South Korea June 24, 1950, Truman orders air and naval support for South Korea & calls for UN intervention June 27, 1950,
U.S. troops invade at Inchon September 15, 1950, Pyongyang falls to UN forces October 19, 1950. This armistice signed on July 27, 1953, formally ended the war in Korea. North and South Korea remain separate and occupy almost the same territory they had when the war began. The Korean War, which began on June 25, 1950, when the North Koreans invaded South Korea, officially ended on July 27, 1953. Korea is located in the east side of China.The Vietnam war started and ended in November 1, 1955 – April 30, 1975]]> 2017-06-13 03:49:03 UTC https://padlet.com/345225/gm54sutac3un/wish/176188932 345225 https://padlet.com/345225/gm54sutac3un/wish/176188982 Vietnamization is the US policy of withdrawing its troops and transferring the responsibility and direction of the war effort to the government of South Vietnam. Detente is the easing of hostility or strained relations, especially between countries.]]> 2017-06-13 03:50:14 UTC https://padlet.com/345225/gm54sutac3un/wish/176188982 345225 https://padlet.com/345225/gm54sutac3un/wish/176189004 On Unification Day, 3 October 1990, the German Democratic Republic ceased to exist, and five new Federal States on its former territory joined the Federal Republic of Germany. East and West Berlin were reunited, and joined the Federal Republic as a full-fledged Federal City-State.

]]> 2017-06-13 03:50:40 UTC https://padlet.com/345225/gm54sutac3un/wish/176189004 345225 https://padlet.com/345225/gm54sutac3un/wish/176189111 Glastnost is the policy or practice of more open consultative government and wider dissemination of information, initiated by leader Mikhail Gorbachev from 1985. The Perestroika is the policy or practice of restructuring or reforming the economic and political system. First proposed by Leonid Brezhnev in 1979 and actively promoted by Mikhail Gorbachev, perestroika originally referred to increased automation and labor efficiency, but came to entail greater awareness of economic markets and the ending of central planning.Mikhail Gorbachev is a former Soviet statesman. He was the eighth leader of the Soviet Union, having been General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991. The once-mighty Soviet Union had fallen, largely due to the great number of radical reforms that Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev had implemented during his six years as the leader of the USSR. However, Gorbachev was disappointed in the dissolution of his nation and resigned from his job on December 25.]]> 2017-06-13 03:53:11 UTC https://padlet.com/345225/gm54sutac3un/wish/176189111 345225 https://padlet.com/345225/gm54sutac3un/wish/176190096 Because Mao had been organizing for years and he had Soviet assistance. And the existing government under Chiang kai chek was incompetent and corrupt. The Cultural Revolution, formally the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, was a sociopolitical movement that took place in China from 1966 until 1976.was an economic and social campaign by the Communist Party of China from 1958 to 1962.]]> 2017-06-13 04:13:58 UTC https://padlet.com/345225/gm54sutac3un/wish/176190096 345225 https://padlet.com/345225/gm54sutac3un/wish/176190323 Israel was created in May 14, 1948 because Palestinian refugees are people who lost both their homes and means of livelihood as a result of the 1948 Arab–Israeli conflict and the 1967 Six-Day War. The number of Palestinians who fled or were expelled from Israel following its creation was estimated at 711,000 in 1949.]]> 2017-06-13 04:19:35 UTC https://padlet.com/345225/gm54sutac3un/wish/176190323