10 Things To Know About The Cold War by Kim Nguyen https://padlet.com/339787/l2huxssciry6 Kim Nguyen en-us 2016-06-10 20:03:14 UTC 2016-06-13 18:15:06 UTC hello@padlet.com 1. The Yalta Conference 339787 https://padlet.com/339787/l2huxssciry6/wish/114360914 a. What happened?
     The Yalta Conference was a discussion about how Europe would be after WWII

b. Who attended?
     The heads of governments of the U.S., Great Britain, and the Soviet Union]]> 2016-06-10 20:08:03 UTC https://padlet.com/339787/l2huxssciry6/wish/114360914 2. Know about the US involvement in the Cold War 339787 https://padlet.com/339787/l2huxssciry6/wish/114361256 a. NATO
     North Atlantic Treaty Organization; military alliance
b. Truman Doctrine
     Give support to countries who was threatened by Soviet forces.
c. Marshall Plan
     US giving aid to Western Europe; $12 billion given away
d. Cuban Missile Crisis
     13 day confrontation between the US and the USSR if they should drop a missile on to Cuba or not
e. Containment
     To stop the spread of Communism]]> 2016-06-10 20:14:36 UTC https://padlet.com/339787/l2huxssciry6/wish/114361256 3. Know about the Soviet involvement in the Cold War 339787 https://padlet.com/339787/l2huxssciry6/wish/114361514 a. Iron Curtain
    Divided Europe in two sections; one side Democratic and the other side Communist
b. What did Stalin say about free elections after WWII?
     The majority of Europe will fall under Communist rule
c. Warsaw Pact
     An alliance made to go against NATO; Communist]]> 2016-06-10 20:19:41 UTC https://padlet.com/339787/l2huxssciry6/wish/114361514 4. Know about the Space Race 339787 https://padlet.com/339787/l2huxssciry6/wish/114361923 a. How did it effect the Soviet Union and America?
    Pushed the two countries to build more space craft to prove they are better than their opponent.
b. Who won the Space Race?
     No one did
c. What events were important during the Space Race?
      Soviets were the first to send something in space. American has the first man on the moon. ]]> 2016-06-10 20:27:47 UTC https://padlet.com/339787/l2huxssciry6/wish/114361923 5. Know about Proxy Wars 339787 https://padlet.com/339787/l2huxssciry6/wish/114421277 a. Vietnam
     Nov. 1, 1955- April 30, 1975
     USSR supplied North VN while US supplied South VN, US sent troops into VN, US bombed North VN, President Nixon came up with Vietnamization (Slowly pulling US troops out of South VN while they are increasing their battle power, soon North VN overran South VN.
       Parties involved: US, USSR, Viet Cong (Communists), Viet Minh (Nationalists)
       Significance: The Domino Theory, if one country falls to Communism, their neighbors ill fall into Communism as well. 
b. Korea
    1950-1953
     USSR supplied North Korea, while the US supplied South Korea, UN Troops pushed North Korea back across the 38th Parallel,  Soon UN and South Korean troops pushed North Korean Troops out of Korea, Korea is now separated (North is a Communist while South is a Democratic)
       Parties Involved: USSR, US, Un, China, North and South Korea
Significance: Until today, Korea still remains divided.

]]> 2016-06-12 18:42:13 UTC https://padlet.com/339787/l2huxssciry6/wish/114421277 6. Know about President Nixon’s contributions to the Cold War 339787 https://padlet.com/339787/l2huxssciry6/wish/114427286 a. What is detente?
     Easing of hostility between nations.
b. What is Ping-Pong Diplomacy?
     The exchange of table tennis players between the United Stated and China]]> 2016-06-12 21:23:39 UTC https://padlet.com/339787/l2huxssciry6/wish/114427286 7. When did East and West Germany finally reunify? 339787 https://padlet.com/339787/l2huxssciry6/wish/114431010 Oct 3, 1990
a. What event led to the unification?
     The fall of the Berlin Wall


]]> 2016-06-12 22:47:56 UTC https://padlet.com/339787/l2huxssciry6/wish/114431010 8. Know about the fall of the Soviet Union. 339787 https://padlet.com/339787/l2huxssciry6/wish/114431117 a. Glasnost
     Openness; Allowed churches to open and books published by banned authors
b. Perestroika
     Economic Restructuring; allowed small private businesses to open
c.  Mikhail Gorbachev
      President of USSR 1990-1991; Made these changes]]> 2016-06-12 22:51:44 UTC https://padlet.com/339787/l2huxssciry6/wish/114431117 9. Explain the positive and negative effects of a U.S. action during the cold war 339787 https://padlet.com/339787/l2huxssciry6/wish/114431338 -Truman Doctrine:
  Positive: Helped other nations (Greece and Turkey)
  Negative: Lost some of their own money

]]> 2016-06-12 22:58:19 UTC https://padlet.com/339787/l2huxssciry6/wish/114431338 10. Give a detailed summary of two Cold War Events 339787 https://padlet.com/339787/l2huxssciry6/wish/114432017 - The Space Race
The Space Race was a competition between the USSR and the Us to see which one would be the first to send an object into space. Eventually, the USSr was the first to send a spacecraft, Sputnik, into space. But soon, the US was the first to send a man to the moon. But no one really won the space war. Instead, there was a bunch of new information that was used for later inventions.]]> 2016-06-12 23:18:59 UTC https://padlet.com/339787/l2huxssciry6/wish/114432017 Give a detailed summary of two Cold War Events 339787 https://padlet.com/339787/l2huxssciry6/wish/114432237 - The Arms Race
The Arms Race was a battle for better nuclear weapons. It was still between the US and the USSR. Whenever a country had a nuclear weapon, the other country would need to get bigger and better weapons than them. This was going in 1952. At the end, no one really won, but the development of another atomic bomb may lead to complete catastrophe.]]> 2016-06-12 23:25:08 UTC https://padlet.com/339787/l2huxssciry6/wish/114432237