https://padlet.com/canttouchthis0520/k6ulh3cd3kpz Made with a lightning strike of genius en-us 2017-02-21 17:57:43 UTC 2024-10-31 16:20:04 UTC hello@padlet.com olsonreider https://padlet.com/canttouchthis0520/k6ulh3cd3kpz/wish/155243913 A defensive pact that was created as a "counterweight" to NATO. It consisted of the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet satellite states, including Hungary, Poland, Romania, Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, and East Germany. Although the WARSAW pact was a reaction to NATO their was no physical conflict between them, only military expanse. However within itself their was conflict; the ]]> 2017-02-21 18:04:07 UTC https://padlet.com/canttouchthis0520/k6ulh3cd3kpz/wish/155243913 olsonreider https://padlet.com/canttouchthis0520/k6ulh3cd3kpz/wish/155245058 The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is an intergovernmental military Alliance. It was signed on April 4th 1949 in response to the WARSAW pact. Its original members include Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom and the United States.]]> 2017-02-21 18:06:52 UTC https://padlet.com/canttouchthis0520/k6ulh3cd3kpz/wish/155245058 olsonreider https://padlet.com/canttouchthis0520/k6ulh3cd3kpz/wish/155245159 An American foreign policy created on march 12, 1947 to soviet spread of communism. It implied american support to countries being threatened by Soviet spread to communism. The Truman Doctrine became the bases of foreign policy. 

]]> 2017-02-21 18:07:09 UTC https://padlet.com/canttouchthis0520/k6ulh3cd3kpz/wish/155245159 olsonreider https://padlet.com/canttouchthis0520/k6ulh3cd3kpz/wish/155245341 The 40th president of the United States of America from 1981-1989. He was also a well known actor and politician. He also predicted the collapse of the Soviet Union.]]> 2017-02-21 18:07:37 UTC https://padlet.com/canttouchthis0520/k6ulh3cd3kpz/wish/155245341 canttouchthis0520 https://padlet.com/canttouchthis0520/k6ulh3cd3kpz/wish/155245808 2017-02-21 18:08:35 UTC https://padlet.com/canttouchthis0520/k6ulh3cd3kpz/wish/155245808 canttouchthis0520 https://padlet.com/canttouchthis0520/k6ulh3cd3kpz/wish/155246353 2017-02-21 18:09:56 UTC https://padlet.com/canttouchthis0520/k6ulh3cd3kpz/wish/155246353 mifoster https://padlet.com/canttouchthis0520/k6ulh3cd3kpz/wish/155246828 Nikita Khrushev gained world fame as the soviet leader who broke with Stalin's rigid interpretation of communism ]]> 2017-02-21 18:10:58 UTC https://padlet.com/canttouchthis0520/k6ulh3cd3kpz/wish/155246828 canttouchthis0520 https://padlet.com/canttouchthis0520/k6ulh3cd3kpz/wish/155247539 Boris Yeltsin was the president of Russia  from 1991 to 1999 who served 2 terms and he was a communist member at first but eventually believed in democratic ways when he became president he wanted a more open society so he set about getting rid of the Soviet Union, Gorbachev who was with his perestroika and glasnot program had hoped to change the Soviet Union December 25,1991 but resigned. Six days later the Soviet Union dissolved.]]> 2017-02-21 18:12:47 UTC https://padlet.com/canttouchthis0520/k6ulh3cd3kpz/wish/155247539 canttouchthis0520 https://padlet.com/canttouchthis0520/k6ulh3cd3kpz/wish/155624938 The Marshall plan was an American initiative to repair Western Europe at the end of WWII which cost the U.S. over 12 billion dollars. In doing this america provided a more congenial environment for future investments. The Marshall plan successfully sparked economic recovery restoring confidence of European people in their country and it's abilities.]]> 2017-02-22 23:08:45 UTC https://padlet.com/canttouchthis0520/k6ulh3cd3kpz/wish/155624938 canttouchthis0520 https://padlet.com/canttouchthis0520/k6ulh3cd3kpz/wish/155630706 perestroika- the policy or practice of restructuring or reforming the economic and political system. 

glasnost- the policy or practice of more open consultative government and wider dissemination of information, initiated by leader Mikhail Gorbachev from 1985.

Gorbachev- was the eighth  final leader of the Soviet Union ]]> 2017-02-23 00:03:20 UTC https://padlet.com/canttouchthis0520/k6ulh3cd3kpz/wish/155630706 canttouchthis0520 https://padlet.com/canttouchthis0520/k6ulh3cd3kpz/wish/155631687 2017-02-23 00:13:38 UTC https://padlet.com/canttouchthis0520/k6ulh3cd3kpz/wish/155631687 mifoster https://padlet.com/canttouchthis0520/k6ulh3cd3kpz/wish/156082787 nonalignment- a political and diplomatic independence from both cold war superpowers

detente- the name of a period where tension was released between the Unites States and Soviet Union]]> 2017-02-24 17:07:40 UTC https://padlet.com/canttouchthis0520/k6ulh3cd3kpz/wish/156082787 mifoster https://padlet.com/canttouchthis0520/k6ulh3cd3kpz/wish/156086484 on August 20, 1968 about 200,00 Warsaw troops and 5,000 tanks invade Czechoslovakia to crush the “Prague Spring”–a brief period of liberalization in the communist country. Czechoslovakians protested the invasion with public demonstrations and other non-violent tactics, but they were no match for the Soviet tanks. The liberal reforms of First Secretary Alexander Dubcek were repealed and “normalization” began under his successor Gustav Husak.]]> 2017-02-24 17:18:57 UTC https://padlet.com/canttouchthis0520/k6ulh3cd3kpz/wish/156086484