https://padlet.com/3345672/l3hmlnnwpz21z2e6 Event... en-us 2022-03-21 13:27:52 UTC 2025-10-22 18:33:39 UTC hello@padlet.com 3345672 https://padlet.com/3345672/l3hmlnnwpz21z2e6/wish/2105338849 _{This was a meeting of three World War 2 allies: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin. The trio met in resort city of Yalta. Particularly the fate of Poland—foreshadowed the crumbling of the Grand Alliance that had developed between the United States, Great Britain, and the Soviet Union during World War II and hinted at the Cold War to come.}]]> 2022-03-21 13:41:50 UTC https://padlet.com/3345672/l3hmlnnwpz21z2e6/wish/2105338849 3345672 https://padlet.com/3345672/l3hmlnnwpz21z2e6/wish/2105348317 ^{Germany was divided into four occupied zones, Great Britain in the northwest, France in the southwest, the United States in the south and the soviet Union in the east.} ]]> 2022-03-21 13:45:39 UTC https://padlet.com/3345672/l3hmlnnwpz21z2e6/wish/2105348317 3345672 https://padlet.com/3345672/l3hmlnnwpz21z2e6/wish/2105355276 _{This was created by the United States, Canada and several western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union.  American nuclear missile sites could be established close to the Soviet border.}]]> 2022-03-21 13:48:26 UTC https://padlet.com/3345672/l3hmlnnwpz21z2e6/wish/2105355276 3345672 https://padlet.com/3345672/l3hmlnnwpz21z2e6/wish/2105363215 ^{This was a political and military alliance between the Soviet Union and several Eastern European countries to counter the threat of capitalism in Europe. The Warsaw Pact ideologically opposed and, over time, built up their own defenses starting an arms race that lasted throughout the Cold War.}

]]> 2022-03-21 13:51:50 UTC https://padlet.com/3345672/l3hmlnnwpz21z2e6/wish/2105363215 3345672 https://padlet.com/3345672/l3hmlnnwpz21z2e6/wish/2105368054 ^{When Soviet forces blockaded rail, road, and water access to Allied-controlled areas of Berlin. The United States and United Kingdom responded by airlifting food and fuel to Berlin from Allied airbases in western Germany. It symbolized the Cold War and divide between the communist Soviet bloc and the western democratic, capitalist bloc.}]]> 2022-03-21 13:54:01 UTC https://padlet.com/3345672/l3hmlnnwpz21z2e6/wish/2105368054 3345672 https://padlet.com/3345672/l3hmlnnwpz21z2e6/wish/2105374933 ^{As tensions grew after the four-power rule was decided at Potsdam, the ideological differences between them led to the construction of a barrier that separated families and friends, as the two sides became the German Democratic Republic and the Federal Republic of Germany.}]]> 2022-03-21 13:56:47 UTC https://padlet.com/3345672/l3hmlnnwpz21z2e6/wish/2105374933 3345672 https://padlet.com/3345672/l3hmlnnwpz21z2e6/wish/2105380885 ^{Its stated goal was to preserve Chinese communism by purging remnants of capitalist and traditional elements from Chinese society, and to re-impose Mao Zedong.  This increased cold war tensions because they were scared that China would influence other countries to turn communist.}]]> 2022-03-21 13:59:17 UTC https://padlet.com/3345672/l3hmlnnwpz21z2e6/wish/2105380885 3345672 https://padlet.com/3345672/l3hmlnnwpz21z2e6/wish/2105388166 ^{It was sparked by the June 25, 1950 invasion of South Korea by 75,000 members of the North Korean People's Army. The Korean War was a proxy war for the Cold War.}]]> 2022-03-21 14:02:24 UTC https://padlet.com/3345672/l3hmlnnwpz21z2e6/wish/2105388166 3345672 https://padlet.com/3345672/l3hmlnnwpz21z2e6/wish/2105393878 ^{Around 1,200 exiles, armed with American weapons and using American landing craft, waded ashore at the Bay of Pigs in Cuba. The hope was that the exile force would serve as a rallying point for the Cuban citizenry, who would rise up and overthrow Castro's government.}]]> 2022-03-21 14:04:41 UTC https://padlet.com/3345672/l3hmlnnwpz21z2e6/wish/2105393878 3345672 https://padlet.com/3345672/l3hmlnnwpz21z2e6/wish/2105397138 ^{An American U-2 spy plane secretly photographed nuclear missile sites being built by the Soviet Union on the island of Cuba. President Kennedy did not want the Soviet Union and Cuba to know that he had discovered the missiles. He met in secret with his advisors for several days to discuss the problem.}]]> 2022-03-21 14:06:05 UTC https://padlet.com/3345672/l3hmlnnwpz21z2e6/wish/2105397138 3345672 https://padlet.com/3345672/l3hmlnnwpz21z2e6/wish/2113796248 ^{Three bullets had been fired the first hitting Kennedy, the second hitting Connally, and the third hitting Kennedy in the head, killing him.}

]]> 2022-03-25 13:26:52 UTC https://padlet.com/3345672/l3hmlnnwpz21z2e6/wish/2113796248 3345672 https://padlet.com/3345672/l3hmlnnwpz21z2e6/wish/2113798570 3,500 United States Marines came ashore at Da Nang as the first wave of U.S. combat troops into South Vietnam, adding to the 25,000 U.S. military advisers already in place.

]]> 2022-03-25 13:28:11 UTC https://padlet.com/3345672/l3hmlnnwpz21z2e6/wish/2113798570 3345672 https://padlet.com/3345672/l3hmlnnwpz21z2e6/wish/2113799948 Two months after the signing of the Vietnam peace agreement, the last U.S. combat troops leave South Vietnam as Hanoi frees the remaining American prisoners of war held in North Vietnam. America's direct eight-year intervention in the Vietnam War was at an end.]]> 2022-03-25 13:28:55 UTC https://padlet.com/3345672/l3hmlnnwpz21z2e6/wish/2113799948 3345672 https://padlet.com/3345672/l3hmlnnwpz21z2e6/wish/2113801901 Having rebuilt their forces and upgraded their logistics system, North Vietnamese forces triggered a major offensive in the Central Highlands in March 1975. On April 30, 1975, NVA tanks rolled through the gate of the Presidential Palace in Saigon, effectively ending the war.]]> 2022-03-25 13:30:00 UTC https://padlet.com/3345672/l3hmlnnwpz21z2e6/wish/2113801901