The Post-War World (Timeline) by Dom Rogers https://padlet.com/captaindomrogers/la19em0h6f73hk69 SOI - The post-1945 era was defined by innovative and challenging interactions between superpowers seeking to express their systems and values. en-us 2023-09-06 07:55:25 UTC 2023-11-14 23:09:36 UTC hello@padlet.com 1945 fleischmannmichaelje https://padlet.com/captaindomrogers/la19em0h6f73hk69/wish/2686321326 End of WW2: September 2, 1945.

Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan are both officially defeated and peace is declared. ]]> 2023-09-06 08:07:04 UTC https://padlet.com/captaindomrogers/la19em0h6f73hk69/wish/2686321326 Space Race fleischmannmichaelje https://padlet.com/captaindomrogers/la19em0h6f73hk69/wish/2686326430 Aug 2, 1955 – Jul 17, 1975
A competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to develop aerospace capabilities, including artificial satellites, unmanned space probes, and human spaceflight.]]> 2023-09-06 08:11:25 UTC https://padlet.com/captaindomrogers/la19em0h6f73hk69/wish/2686326430 Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki fleischmannmichaelje https://padlet.com/captaindomrogers/la19em0h6f73hk69/wish/2686332433 Aug 6, 1945 – Aug 9, 1945
The US detonated 2 atomic bombs over the Hiroshima and Nagasaki, killing 210,000 people. It was used in an effort to bring Japan to surrender WW2. 
The Manhattan Project was the US government program during World War II that developed and built these first atomic bombs.
]]> 2023-09-06 08:16:21 UTC https://padlet.com/captaindomrogers/la19em0h6f73hk69/wish/2686332433 The Holocaust fleischmannmichaelje https://padlet.com/captaindomrogers/la19em0h6f73hk69/wish/2686334867 The Holocaust was a state-sponsored systematic genocide that took place during World War II, where approximately six million Jews were systematically murdered by the Nazi regime. The term "Holocaust" is derived from the Greek word "holokauston," which means "sacrifice by fire". This tragedy is considered one of the darkest chapters in human history, and it was fueled by antisemitism.
During the Holocaust, antisemitism was used as a tool to justify the systematic persecution and murder of Jews by the Nazis. The Nazis believed that Jews were an inferior race and a threat to the purity of the Aryan race. This belief was not limited to the Nazi leadership but was also prevalent among the general population in Germany and other countries under Nazi control. Antisemitism during the Holocaust took many forms, including propaganda, discrimination, and violence. Nazi propaganda portrayed Jews as subhuman and responsible for the economic and social problems in Germany. This propaganda was used to justify discriminatory laws, such as the Nuremberg Laws of 1935, which stripped Jews of their citizenship and basic rights.
Jews were forced to wear identifying badges, and their property was confiscated. The violence against Jews during the Holocaust was particularly brutal. Jews were rounded up and forced into ghettos, where they were subjected to overcrowding, starvation, and disease. Many were then transported to concentration camps, where they were subjected to forced labor, medical experiments, and mass murder. The most notorious of these camps was Auschwitz, In this singular camp over 1 million Jews were brutally murdered.
the Holocaust was one of the darkest periods of times of human existence and it was fueled by antisemitism, a form of prejudice and discrimination against Jews. The Nazi regime used antisemitism to justify the systematic persecution genocide and murder of six million Jews.

(2022) United States holocaust memorial museum. United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Available at: https://encyclopedia.ushmm.org/content/en/article/introduction-to-the-holocaust (Accessed: April 19, 2023). 
Michal (2017) The Holocaust: The National WWII Museum: New Orleans, The National WWII Museum | New Orleans. The National World War II Museum. Available at: https://www.nationalww2museum.org/war/articles/holocaust (Accessed: April 19, 2023). 
]]> 2023-09-06 08:17:48 UTC https://padlet.com/captaindomrogers/la19em0h6f73hk69/wish/2686334867 NATO Ratified https://padlet.com/captaindomrogers/la19em0h6f73hk69/wish/2686339455 NATO Ratified: NATO was formed in 1949 with the signing of the Washington treaty , 1949 12 countries decided to be a part of NATO. The purpose of NATO was to safeguard the Allies freedom and security by the political and military. During the years NATO has actively contributed to peace , security and made us globally connected.


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1)  https://history.state.gov/milestones/1945-1952/nato#:~:text=The%20North%20Atlantic%20Treaty%20Organization,security%20against%20the%20Soviet%20Union.&text=NATO%20was%20the%20first%20peacetime,outside%20of%20the%20Western%20Hemisphere.]]> 2023-09-06 08:21:30 UTC https://padlet.com/captaindomrogers/la19em0h6f73hk69/wish/2686339455 Fall of ther Berlin Wall fleischmannmichaelje https://padlet.com/captaindomrogers/la19em0h6f73hk69/wish/2686340709 November 9, 1989
the Berlin Wall divided communist East Germany from West Germany, to separate Western “fascists” from entering East Germany and undermining the socialist state.Some political changes in Eastern Europe and the citizens protests in Germany put pressure on the East German government to loosen some of its regulations on travel to West Germany.]]> 2023-09-06 08:22:25 UTC https://padlet.com/captaindomrogers/la19em0h6f73hk69/wish/2686340709 Apollo 11 July 16 - July 24 1969 softtacoshell4 https://padlet.com/captaindomrogers/la19em0h6f73hk69/wish/2686342797 On May 25th 1961 President John F. Kennedy set a national goal for the Apollo 11 mission to complete which was "Perform a crewed lunar landing and return to Earth".

On July 16th 1969 the Apollo 11 shuttle (Carrying Commander Neil Armstrong, Command Module Pilot Michael Collins, and Lunar Module Pilot "Buzz" Aldrin launched from Cape Kennedy.

Sources:
Loff, Sarah. “Apollo 11 Mission Overview.” NASA, NASA, 17 Apr. 2015, www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/missions/apollo11.html. ]]> 2023-09-06 08:24:04 UTC https://padlet.com/captaindomrogers/la19em0h6f73hk69/wish/2686342797 The Korean War Oscarrylands https://padlet.com/captaindomrogers/la19em0h6f73hk69/wish/2686342940 Jun 25, 1950 – Jul 27, 1953
After the end of the War to end all Wars (World War II) there was a great disturbance in balance within mainland Asia. As empires and countries such as Japan, China and the Soviet Union had been major influences of the Second World War and had grown along with suffered because of it. Due to the uprising of Communism and its "success" in the Soviet Union and mainland China, it was catching like wildfire. One of the countries yet to be apart of communism was Korea, starting in the north as a small revolution quickly succeeded by Chinese troops and supplies, the Korean war escalated quite quickly. Due to this the United States of America (USA) wished to intervene along with its allies to prevent the spread of communism. And so it did along with the South Koreans and there allies they pushed back north Koreans and Chinese. They went about this until eventually in 1953 the two different Korean "parties" came to agreement and set a fixed border patrolled by thousands to this day. 
Technically the Korean War has still not ended yet the physical Conflict has been at a halt since.]]> 2023-09-06 08:24:11 UTC https://padlet.com/captaindomrogers/la19em0h6f73hk69/wish/2686342940 Event: Yalta Conference https://padlet.com/captaindomrogers/la19em0h6f73hk69/wish/2686343604 February 4th - 11th 1945
The Yalta conference was a week long conference between Franklin D. Roosevelt (32nd US President), Winston Churchill (Prime Minister of the UK at the time) and Joseph Stalin (Former Dictator of the Soviet Union). In this conference they would discuss what would be done after WW2 regarding matters such as how Germany was to be divided and what is would have to pay in reparations, what would happen to Poland and its government and under which conditions the soviet union would be involved in the war against Japan.]]> 2023-09-06 08:24:45 UTC https://padlet.com/captaindomrogers/la19em0h6f73hk69/wish/2686343604 The dissolution of USSR https://padlet.com/captaindomrogers/la19em0h6f73hk69/wish/2686346176 The dissolution of USSR happened after the politician Gorbachev decided to have elections with multi party system. This was supposed to be an innovative idea but instead, it lead to the fall of the Soviet Union. The dissolution of the Soviet Union was an internal destruction of the country, which then became an independent Russian State. ]]> 2023-09-06 08:26:55 UTC https://padlet.com/captaindomrogers/la19em0h6f73hk69/wish/2686346176 The Space Race Events Hitesh_Vadlamudi https://padlet.com/captaindomrogers/la19em0h6f73hk69/wish/2686347866 The Space Race began with the soviets entering space first with different test animals such as dogs, monkeys, and eventually astronauts, The Americans also set out to space in order to prove their technological superiority and intelligence. They sent unmanned probes, and spacecraft, but as time went people set out into space where the first people would explore the beauties of space by doing the first ever space walk.

This would lead to the USA eventually doing the impossible, and set out to get the first ever people on the moon (Apollo 11), on the 20th of July 1969, following the Soviet Luna 2 which would land on the moon 3 years before.]]> 2023-09-06 08:28:12 UTC https://padlet.com/captaindomrogers/la19em0h6f73hk69/wish/2686347866 Vietnam War idek987 https://padlet.com/captaindomrogers/la19em0h6f73hk69/wish/2686350737 (1955-1975)
The Vietnam war was a conflict between north and south Vietnam. It started because north Vietnam was a communist government and had the goal of uniting the country under a communist government. However, the south which was supported by the US fought to try to stop this from happening. North Vietnam ended up winning the war, due to the south surrendering, which led to Vietnam becoming the socialist republic of Vietnam. The war led to the loss of many lives. The war led to huge amounts of damage occurring to infrastructure and the natural land had been exposed to many toxic chemicals. It also impacted the US economy due to the money which went into military which led to inflation in the country. The war also led to the US military being weakened.  

Source: Britannica ]]> 2023-09-06 08:30:35 UTC https://padlet.com/captaindomrogers/la19em0h6f73hk69/wish/2686350737 The Berlin crises of 1961 ahmadakande167 https://padlet.com/captaindomrogers/la19em0h6f73hk69/wish/2687210066 Started on June 6th 1961 and ended on November 9th 1961.

The Berlin crises that happened in 1961 was a major war that happened because the European political and military incident of the Cold War relating to the city of Germans 

It lead to the construction of the Berlin Wall and this made the west from having further or any interaction with the east. 
And Berlin crises was one of the turning point during the Cold War (was the major stuff that changed the story)



]]> 2023-09-06 17:24:11 UTC https://padlet.com/captaindomrogers/la19em0h6f73hk69/wish/2687210066 The Korean War (1950-1953) arnavkunte08 https://padlet.com/captaindomrogers/la19em0h6f73hk69/wish/2687479541 The Korean War, spanning from 1950 to 1953, was a conflict between North Korea and South Korea, a communist country. The conflict began when North Korea attacked South Korea, prompting the US and other countries to support South Korea. The war became a conflict between countries that supported communism and those that supported democracy. Despite a ceasefire in 1953, North and South Korea remain technically at war. The war also tested the "domino theory," which states that if one country falls into communism the neighboring countries are likely to do the same... ]]> 2023-09-06 20:40:20 UTC https://padlet.com/captaindomrogers/la19em0h6f73hk69/wish/2687479541 Technology advancement adriellopez5 https://padlet.com/captaindomrogers/la19em0h6f73hk69/wish/2689011664 In 1957 the US and the USSR competed for superior technology over the others after the release of the first atomic bomb, like better weapons and bigger atomic bombs that could be more harmful that they could use during the Cold War to defend themselves from the enemies and also to gain more territory by force. ]]> 2023-09-07 14:57:42 UTC https://padlet.com/captaindomrogers/la19em0h6f73hk69/wish/2689011664