My delightful padlet by Sophie Schwarz https://padlet.com/schwarzs3/hu8f8baauyriwucp Made with no regrets, whatsoever en-us 2020-11-02 17:00:38 UTC 2025-04-26 16:32:04 UTC hello@padlet.com 1917 reckint https://padlet.com/schwarzs3/hu8f8baauyriwucp/wish/883137581 Russian Bolshevik revolutionaries led by Vladimir Lenin ousted Tsar Nicholas II and established a new government based on communist principles]]> 2020-11-02 17:08:05 UTC https://padlet.com/schwarzs3/hu8f8baauyriwucp/wish/883137581 1920 reckint https://padlet.com/schwarzs3/hu8f8baauyriwucp/wish/883141982  foreign troops left Russia. The new Russia government wiped out the opposition and regained complete control]]> 2020-11-02 17:08:57 UTC https://padlet.com/schwarzs3/hu8f8baauyriwucp/wish/883141982 1924 reckint https://padlet.com/schwarzs3/hu8f8baauyriwucp/wish/883144650  Lenin dies. Josef Stalin takes over as the new General Secretary of the Communist Party (leader)]]> 2020-11-02 17:09:30 UTC https://padlet.com/schwarzs3/hu8f8baauyriwucp/wish/883144650 1931-1941 reckint https://padlet.com/schwarzs3/hu8f8baauyriwucp/wish/883149661 Nazi Soviet Non-agression pact signed. Germany and USSR would not attack each other and in 1939, Nazi and Soviet forces invaded Poland and divied the nations between them. Nazis go to war with Britain and France following the end of the invasion]]> 2020-11-02 17:10:30 UTC https://padlet.com/schwarzs3/hu8f8baauyriwucp/wish/883149661 1941 https://padlet.com/schwarzs3/hu8f8baauyriwucp/wish/883158240 Hitler breaks nonaggression pact with Stalin and invades the USSR.]]> 2020-11-02 17:12:09 UTC https://padlet.com/schwarzs3/hu8f8baauyriwucp/wish/883158240 1945 reckint https://padlet.com/schwarzs3/hu8f8baauyriwucp/wish/883204147 Franklin Roosevelt dies. Vice President Harry Truman becomes the new president of the United States and is a more determined opponent of communism

Germany surrenders to the allied powers. The country is divided into 4 sectors, controlled by the Soviet Union, United States, United Kingdom, and France

The United States drops atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki

The combined attacks force Japan to surrender, thus ending WWll


]]> 2020-11-02 17:21:54 UTC https://padlet.com/schwarzs3/hu8f8baauyriwucp/wish/883204147 1948 reckint https://padlet.com/schwarzs3/hu8f8baauyriwucp/wish/883211006 the United States and Russia clash over control of strait in Turkey. Stalin set a blockade on the western half of Berlin and the United States launches the Berlin airlift to provide aid to the Germans living in the city]]> 2020-11-02 17:23:23 UTC https://padlet.com/schwarzs3/hu8f8baauyriwucp/wish/883211006 1949 reckint https://padlet.com/schwarzs3/hu8f8baauyriwucp/wish/883212373 Stalin lifted the blockade in Germany but Germany remains 2 separate countries. Communist East Germany and NATO influenced West Germany 

he United States formed the North Atlantic Treaty Organization(NATO). Western nations Military Alliance to counter any Soviet threat to the security of Europe

successfully tested its first nuclear device ending the American monopoly on nuclear weapon]]> 2020-11-02 17:23:41 UTC https://padlet.com/schwarzs3/hu8f8baauyriwucp/wish/883212373 1947 https://padlet.com/schwarzs3/hu8f8baauyriwucp/wish/883216455 March 1947 Truman promised financial support to monarchists fighting communists.  This was called the Truman Doctrine and was meant to rally the American People to get the materials necessary to support the freedom against “communist aggression”.]]> 2020-11-02 17:24:33 UTC https://padlet.com/schwarzs3/hu8f8baauyriwucp/wish/883216455 1950 https://padlet.com/schwarzs3/hu8f8baauyriwucp/wish/883220756  Korea has separated into 2 different nations when communist North Korea invaded South Korea 

The two Koreas coexisted uncomfortably until June 25th, 1950 when communist North Korea invaded South Korea.
]]> 2020-11-02 17:25:25 UTC https://padlet.com/schwarzs3/hu8f8baauyriwucp/wish/883220756 1953 reckint https://padlet.com/schwarzs3/hu8f8baauyriwucp/wish/883222726 Stalin dies and Nikita Kurschev takes over as the new leader of the USSR

Dwight D. Eisenhower ends the Korean War ]]> 2020-11-02 17:25:52 UTC https://padlet.com/schwarzs3/hu8f8baauyriwucp/wish/883222726 1954 https://padlet.com/schwarzs3/hu8f8baauyriwucp/wish/883225565 The French were defeated in the Indochina War. The region was broke up into tiny independent nations

]]> 2020-11-02 17:26:31 UTC https://padlet.com/schwarzs3/hu8f8baauyriwucp/wish/883225565 1957 https://padlet.com/schwarzs3/hu8f8baauyriwucp/wish/883230332 Soviets launch the Sputnik satellite (first ever satellite) which made the US afraid due to them now losing the Space Race.]]> 2020-11-02 17:27:35 UTC https://padlet.com/schwarzs3/hu8f8baauyriwucp/wish/883230332 1951 https://padlet.com/schwarzs3/hu8f8baauyriwucp/wish/883235641 Cuban Revolution is successful and Fidel Castro takes control of the island nation]]> 2020-11-02 17:28:46 UTC https://padlet.com/schwarzs3/hu8f8baauyriwucp/wish/883235641 1961 https://padlet.com/schwarzs3/hu8f8baauyriwucp/wish/883239277 The CIA (American intelligence) trained Cuban exiles to land in Cuba and fight in the Bay of Pigs invasion. The invasion failed and Castro remained in power

Berlin Wall was built by East Germany on order from the Soviet Union. The purpose of the wall was to prevent East Germans from fleeing to the western part of the city that was controlled by NATO.
]]> 2020-11-02 17:29:34 UTC https://padlet.com/schwarzs3/hu8f8baauyriwucp/wish/883239277 1967 reckint https://padlet.com/schwarzs3/hu8f8baauyriwucp/wish/883241238 America started to have a large protest on US soil about the president's choices to send a large number of troops to Vietnam.]]> 2020-11-02 17:30:02 UTC https://padlet.com/schwarzs3/hu8f8baauyriwucp/wish/883241238 1962 reckint https://padlet.com/schwarzs3/hu8f8baauyriwucp/wish/883242592 Soviets plant missiles on Cuban soil, almost led to a war, but they stopped if the US agreed not to invade Cuba again]]> 2020-11-02 17:30:20 UTC https://padlet.com/schwarzs3/hu8f8baauyriwucp/wish/883242592 1967-1968 https://padlet.com/schwarzs3/hu8f8baauyriwucp/wish/883245169 Large protests in the home from 1967 that reached its peak in 1968.]]> 2020-11-02 17:30:54 UTC https://padlet.com/schwarzs3/hu8f8baauyriwucp/wish/883245169 1973 reckint https://padlet.com/schwarzs3/hu8f8baauyriwucp/wish/883249675 Richard Nixon ended U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, nearly 60,000 American soldiers had died.]]> 2020-11-02 17:31:54 UTC https://padlet.com/schwarzs3/hu8f8baauyriwucp/wish/883249675 1972 https://padlet.com/schwarzs3/hu8f8baauyriwucp/wish/883250981 Nixon visited China in a bid to normalize relations with that nation's communist government. A few months after the trip Nixon visited the Soviet Union and its leader Lenid Brezhnev where the two men signed a treaty that had grown out of the Strategic arms Limitations Talks (SALT). ]]> 2020-11-02 17:32:11 UTC https://padlet.com/schwarzs3/hu8f8baauyriwucp/wish/883250981 1985 schwarzs3 https://padlet.com/schwarzs3/hu8f8baauyriwucp/wish/883254448 Gorbachev becomes leader of USSR. He promises change. ]]> 2020-11-02 17:32:58 UTC https://padlet.com/schwarzs3/hu8f8baauyriwucp/wish/883254448 1990 https://padlet.com/schwarzs3/hu8f8baauyriwucp/wish/883256588 East and West Germany reunited under liberal regime after the Berlin Wall fell. ]]> 2020-11-02 17:33:18 UTC https://padlet.com/schwarzs3/hu8f8baauyriwucp/wish/883256588 1991 https://padlet.com/schwarzs3/hu8f8baauyriwucp/wish/883260030 Soviet Union officially dissolved with Gorbachev’s resignation and the USSR dissolves into several independent states.]]> 2020-11-02 17:33:53 UTC https://padlet.com/schwarzs3/hu8f8baauyriwucp/wish/883260030 1969 https://padlet.com/schwarzs3/hu8f8baauyriwucp/wish/883264460 The United States successfully put the first man on the moon and jump ahead of the USSR in the space race.]]> 2020-11-02 17:34:51 UTC https://padlet.com/schwarzs3/hu8f8baauyriwucp/wish/883264460 stevensb7 https://padlet.com/schwarzs3/hu8f8baauyriwucp/wish/912599216 2020-11-11 13:00:51 UTC https://padlet.com/schwarzs3/hu8f8baauyriwucp/wish/912599216