https://padlet.com/vmontalva83/lee2s05ghcmqop3g Made with a bold sensibility en-us 2020-10-21 13:40:41 UTC 2025-12-07 10:15:39 UTC hello@padlet.com vmontalva83 https://padlet.com/vmontalva83/lee2s05ghcmqop3g/wish/848665203 The Polish captured Warsaw and it was going to set up as a non-communist government in the capital. It was going to stop Stalin from creating a communist Poland. Stalin viewed the uprising with intense suspicion. The Polish where left to fight the Germans and where defeated by 2 October. ]]> 2020-10-21 13:47:40 UTC https://padlet.com/vmontalva83/lee2s05ghcmqop3g/wish/848665203 vmontalva83 https://padlet.com/vmontalva83/lee2s05ghcmqop3g/wish/848751171 June 6th, 1944. Allies opened a "second front" in Europe with the invasion of Normandy. In World War II (1939-45), a battlefront against fascist Germany, which was opened by the USA and Great Britain, with the incursion of their troops into northwestern France.]]> 2020-10-21 14:06:01 UTC https://padlet.com/vmontalva83/lee2s05ghcmqop3g/wish/848751171 vmontalva83 https://padlet.com/vmontalva83/lee2s05ghcmqop3g/wish/848764845 The United States had been working on developing an atomic weapon after the Nazi Germany was creating research into nuclear weapons. The United States conducted the first successful atomic bomb which was exploded in the desert in New Mexico in July 1945, Germany had already been defeated. ]]> 2020-10-21 14:08:46 UTC https://padlet.com/vmontalva83/lee2s05ghcmqop3g/wish/848764845 vmontalva83 https://padlet.com/vmontalva83/lee2s05ghcmqop3g/wish/853465311 Through 1944 and 1945 the Red Army drove across Eastern Europe in its fight agains the Nazis. After the war, Stalin was determined that the USSR would control Eastern Europe. Germany or any other state would not be able to use countries like Hungary or Poland as a staging post to invade. ]]> 2020-10-22 17:20:37 UTC https://padlet.com/vmontalva83/lee2s05ghcmqop3g/wish/853465311 vmontalva83 https://padlet.com/vmontalva83/lee2s05ghcmqop3g/wish/853466886 Also known as the salami-slice strategy or salami attacks, is a divide and conquer process of threats and alliances  used to overcome oppositions. It´s believed that this tactics started in the late 1940´s  By Stalinist dictator Mátyás Rákosi to describe the actions of the Hungarian Communist Party,

]]> 2020-10-22 17:20:58 UTC https://padlet.com/vmontalva83/lee2s05ghcmqop3g/wish/853466886 vmontalva83 https://padlet.com/vmontalva83/lee2s05ghcmqop3g/wish/853468442 The GDR (Germany Democratic Republic) and the FRG (The Federal Republic of Germany) were established by the end of 1948. With Germany divided into these two parts, Berlin remained a divided state. This whole issue created protests between each side, hostile demonstrations, anti-communist assemblies, etc. All this conflict eventually ended with the creation of the Berlin Wall that divided East and West Berlin. ]]> 2020-10-22 17:21:17 UTC https://padlet.com/vmontalva83/lee2s05ghcmqop3g/wish/853468442 vmontalva83 https://padlet.com/vmontalva83/lee2s05ghcmqop3g/wish/853471834 The "Long Telegram was sent in 1946 while Kennan was Chargé d'Affaires in Moscow. He sent an 8,000-word telegram to the Department, on the aggressive nature of Stalin's foreign policy. ]]> 2020-10-22 17:22:01 UTC https://padlet.com/vmontalva83/lee2s05ghcmqop3g/wish/853471834 vmontalva83 https://padlet.com/vmontalva83/lee2s05ghcmqop3g/wish/853473618 This speech is also known as the "Iron Curtain speech". It was clear throughout the speech that the purpose of Churchill was making a call towards the US to have a "special relationship" with them. However he also warned about the policies of the Soviet Union and how they were expanding. This speech was seen as "war mongering" for Stalin and drew tension between Britain, USSR and the US.]]> 2020-10-22 17:22:22 UTC https://padlet.com/vmontalva83/lee2s05ghcmqop3g/wish/853473618 vmontalva83 https://padlet.com/vmontalva83/lee2s05ghcmqop3g/wish/853475275 It started because of a struggle between left and right ideologies in 1943. Each sides targeted the "power vacuum", meaning they wanted to throw their ideologies into the Greek politics. This resulted on the end of the Axis occupation, which was lead by Hitler, Mussolini and Emperor Hirohito. This civil war was one of the first struggles of WW2]]> 2020-10-22 17:22:42 UTC https://padlet.com/vmontalva83/lee2s05ghcmqop3g/wish/853475275 vmontalva83 https://padlet.com/vmontalva83/lee2s05ghcmqop3g/wish/853476291 May 1947, In Italy, democrats feared that the leftists would take power, as they were losing popularity. The communist party of Italy was growing excepcionally fast due to its organizing efforts supporting sharecroppers. On the other side, the french communist party had the support of one in every four voters. The largest percentage of votes of any party between 1946-1956.]]> 2020-10-22 17:22:55 UTC https://padlet.com/vmontalva83/lee2s05ghcmqop3g/wish/853476291