https://padlet.com/153004414/nzjgg9grkaqd4unv Made with whimsy en-us 2020-04-27 21:26:04 UTC 2020-04-28 23:52:47 UTC hello@padlet.com 153004414 https://padlet.com/153004414/nzjgg9grkaqd4unv/wish/534772000 The Berlin Blockade was the first prominent international crisis of the cold war. It went on from Jun 24, 1948 to May 12, 1949. It was caused by the Soviet blocking the Western Allies' rail road and canal access to the parts of Berlin under Western control. ]]> 2020-04-27 21:34:49 UTC https://padlet.com/153004414/nzjgg9grkaqd4unv/wish/534772000 153004414 https://padlet.com/153004414/nzjgg9grkaqd4unv/wish/534789299 The United Nations was founded on October 24, 1945 in San Francisco, CA. The United Nations was founded to maintain international peace and security, have healthy relations with nations, and to be a core of international unity. ]]> 2020-04-27 21:47:36 UTC https://padlet.com/153004414/nzjgg9grkaqd4unv/wish/534789299 153004414 https://padlet.com/153004414/nzjgg9grkaqd4unv/wish/534802059 The Yalta Conference could also be called the Crimea Conference. It was held from February 4 to 11, 1945. U.S. It was a meeting of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin. They discussed the postwar reorganization of Germany and Europe. ]]> 2020-04-27 21:57:09 UTC https://padlet.com/153004414/nzjgg9grkaqd4unv/wish/534802059 153004414 https://padlet.com/153004414/nzjgg9grkaqd4unv/wish/534830198 The Korean War lasted from June 25, 1950 to July 27, 1953. It came to an end when the Korean Armistice Agreement was signed. The agreement led to the development of the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), which separates North and South Korea, and allowed prisoners to return.

]]> 2020-04-27 22:18:12 UTC https://padlet.com/153004414/nzjgg9grkaqd4unv/wish/534830198 153004414 https://padlet.com/153004414/nzjgg9grkaqd4unv/wish/534847651 COMECON, The Council for Mutual Economic Assistance, was led by the Soviet Union. It was an economic organization that existed from 1941 to 1949. It was made to organize and maintain the economic growth of eastern European countries belonging to the Soviet bloc.]]> 2020-04-27 22:32:21 UTC https://padlet.com/153004414/nzjgg9grkaqd4unv/wish/534847651 153004414 https://padlet.com/153004414/nzjgg9grkaqd4unv/wish/534871831 During the Cold War, a prominent factor was who could go to outer space fastest and most efficient. The Space Race was a rivalry between the US and the Soviet Union. Sputnik was the world's first artificial satellite and the first object made by man to be put into Earth's orbit. It was launched on October 4, 1957. ]]> 2020-04-27 22:54:15 UTC https://padlet.com/153004414/nzjgg9grkaqd4unv/wish/534871831 153004414 https://padlet.com/153004414/nzjgg9grkaqd4unv/wish/534894424 The Cuban Missile Crisis lasted from Oct 16, 1962 to Oct 28, 1962. It was caused by the American discovery of the deployment of the Soviet ballistic missile in Cuba. Essentially, it was a tense, political and military stand off between the Soviet Union and the US.]]> 2020-04-27 23:13:54 UTC https://padlet.com/153004414/nzjgg9grkaqd4unv/wish/534894424 153004414 https://padlet.com/153004414/nzjgg9grkaqd4unv/wish/534911515 The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed invasion of Cuba that lasted from Apr 17, 1961 – Apr 19, 1961. It occurred on the Southwest coast of Cuba. It was operated by Cuban Exiles who were against the Cuban Revolution of Fidel Castro. ]]> 2020-04-27 23:29:45 UTC https://padlet.com/153004414/nzjgg9grkaqd4unv/wish/534911515 153004414 https://padlet.com/153004414/nzjgg9grkaqd4unv/wish/534917905 During WWII, on August 6, 1945, an American B-29 bomber deployed the world's first atomic bomb over Hiroshima. Three days later, on August 9, another one was dropped on Nagasaki. This killed an estimated 40,000 people. The rates of radiation led to higher rates of cancer in the survivors. ]]> 2020-04-27 23:35:44 UTC https://padlet.com/153004414/nzjgg9grkaqd4unv/wish/534917905 153004414 https://padlet.com/153004414/nzjgg9grkaqd4unv/wish/534923118 The United States invaded Afghanistan after the September 11 attacks of 2001. This action was supported by close allies of the US. ]]> 2020-04-27 23:40:44 UTC https://padlet.com/153004414/nzjgg9grkaqd4unv/wish/534923118 153004414 https://padlet.com/153004414/nzjgg9grkaqd4unv/wish/534926399 The Berlin Airlift was an act of response to the Soviet Blockade of west land routes in Berlin. It refers to the large program of airlifting supplies of essential goods to West Berliners accepted from June 1948 to September 1949.]]> 2020-04-27 23:43:53 UTC https://padlet.com/153004414/nzjgg9grkaqd4unv/wish/534926399 153004414 https://padlet.com/153004414/nzjgg9grkaqd4unv/wish/537625939 The Truman Doctrine was presented to Congress on March 12, 1947.  President Harry S. Truman's message's asked for $400 million in military funding and economic guidance for Turkey and Greece.  ]]> 2020-04-28 21:40:54 UTC https://padlet.com/153004414/nzjgg9grkaqd4unv/wish/537625939 153004414 https://padlet.com/153004414/nzjgg9grkaqd4unv/wish/537677305 The Berlin Wall was built by the  German Democratic Republic. Its construction started on August 13, 1961. It was built to isolate West Berlin from East Berlin and the rest of the surrounding East Germany. ]]> 2020-04-28 22:21:23 UTC https://padlet.com/153004414/nzjgg9grkaqd4unv/wish/537677305 153004414 https://padlet.com/153004414/nzjgg9grkaqd4unv/wish/537689077 Mao Zedong, a Chinese Communist, established the People's Republic of China on October 1, 1949. Up until his death in 1976, Mao Zedong ruled as the Chairman of the Communist Party of China.  ]]> 2020-04-28 22:31:41 UTC https://padlet.com/153004414/nzjgg9grkaqd4unv/wish/537689077 153004414 https://padlet.com/153004414/nzjgg9grkaqd4unv/wish/537695500 The Suez Crisis, also known as tripartite aggression in the Arab world and Sinai War in Israel, lasted from October 1956 to March 1957. Essentially, Israel, followed by the UK and France, invaded Egypt in late 1956. ]]> 2020-04-28 22:37:12 UTC https://padlet.com/153004414/nzjgg9grkaqd4unv/wish/537695500 153004414 https://padlet.com/153004414/nzjgg9grkaqd4unv/wish/537701437 The Vietnam War, also known as the Second Indochina War, lasted from Nov 1, 1955 to Apr 30, 1975. The war was fought between the communist government of North Vietnam and the Viet Cong on one side, and the government of South Vietnam and its key ally, the United States, on the other side. ]]> 2020-04-28 22:42:05 UTC https://padlet.com/153004414/nzjgg9grkaqd4unv/wish/537701437 153004414 https://padlet.com/153004414/nzjgg9grkaqd4unv/wish/537706276 President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Domino Theory was most prominent between the 1950s and the 1980s. The theory postulates that if one country became under the influence of communism, then the surrounding countries would in a 'domino effect'. ]]> 2020-04-28 22:46:30 UTC https://padlet.com/153004414/nzjgg9grkaqd4unv/wish/537706276 153004414 https://padlet.com/153004414/nzjgg9grkaqd4unv/wish/537710515 The Warsaw Pact, or the Warsaw Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance, lasted from May 14, 1955 to July 1, 1991. The treaty sought to establish mutual defense. The members were the Soviet Union, Albania, Poland, Romania, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Bulgaria. ]]> 2020-04-28 22:50:00 UTC https://padlet.com/153004414/nzjgg9grkaqd4unv/wish/537710515 153004414 https://padlet.com/153004414/nzjgg9grkaqd4unv/wish/537715673 The Killing Fields are numerous sites in Cambodia where around one million people were killed and buried by the Khmer Rouge after the end of the Cambodian Civil War. The Khmer Rouge, or the Communist Party of Kampuchea, ruled Cambodia from 1975 to 1979.]]> 2020-04-28 22:54:19 UTC https://padlet.com/153004414/nzjgg9grkaqd4unv/wish/537715673 153004414 https://padlet.com/153004414/nzjgg9grkaqd4unv/wish/537725329 Perestroika was a political movement that called for reform in the Soviet Union Communist Party during the 1980's. Within the Soviet, Gorbachev's Glasnost Policies supposedly influenced citizens to publicly discuss issues in the system in order to find solutions. ]]> 2020-04-28 23:03:11 UTC https://padlet.com/153004414/nzjgg9grkaqd4unv/wish/537725329 153004414 https://padlet.com/153004414/nzjgg9grkaqd4unv/wish/537732713 The START (Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty) was a bilateral treaty between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The Treaty was signed on July 31, 1991, and it became effective December 5, 1994. The Treaty was based around the limitation of strategic offensive arms. It later expired on December 5, 2009. ]]> 2020-04-28 23:09:27 UTC https://padlet.com/153004414/nzjgg9grkaqd4unv/wish/537732713 153004414 https://padlet.com/153004414/nzjgg9grkaqd4unv/wish/537736557 The Korean war was fought between North and South Korea  during Jun 25, 1950 – Jul 27, 1953. The war began when North Korea invaded South Korea. Neither parties signed a peace treaty. ]]> 2020-04-28 23:12:59 UTC https://padlet.com/153004414/nzjgg9grkaqd4unv/wish/537736557 153004414 https://padlet.com/153004414/nzjgg9grkaqd4unv/wish/537741887 The Berlin Wall fell in November in November 1991. It fell due to bureaucratic political changes. The fall of the wall left the Soviet led Communist bloc on the verge of a collapse. It also helped initiate a new world order. ]]> 2020-04-28 23:17:25 UTC https://padlet.com/153004414/nzjgg9grkaqd4unv/wish/537741887 153004414 https://padlet.com/153004414/nzjgg9grkaqd4unv/wish/537746797 The Marshall plan became effective on April 3, 1948. It was a U.S. program that aimed to provide Western Europe with financial aid following the end of WWII. ]]> 2020-04-28 23:21:53 UTC https://padlet.com/153004414/nzjgg9grkaqd4unv/wish/537746797 153004414 https://padlet.com/153004414/nzjgg9grkaqd4unv/wish/537749989 Hungarian Revolution of 1956 was a revolt against the Hungarian People's Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies. It lasted from October 23 to November 10. The revolution was crushed by the Soviet. ]]> 2020-04-28 23:24:49 UTC https://padlet.com/153004414/nzjgg9grkaqd4unv/wish/537749989 153004414 https://padlet.com/153004414/nzjgg9grkaqd4unv/wish/537753098 The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was established on April 4, 1949. The founding countries are United States, Canada, and several Western European countries. The treaty was formed in order to provide collective, international security against the Soviet Union.]]> 2020-04-28 23:27:35 UTC https://padlet.com/153004414/nzjgg9grkaqd4unv/wish/537753098 153004414 https://padlet.com/153004414/nzjgg9grkaqd4unv/wish/537756672 The Six Day War was fought Jun 5, 1967 – Jun 10, 1967. It was fought between Israel and the neighboring states of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria. The war resulted in an Israeli victory.]]> 2020-04-28 23:30:46 UTC https://padlet.com/153004414/nzjgg9grkaqd4unv/wish/537756672 153004414 https://padlet.com/153004414/nzjgg9grkaqd4unv/wish/537760133 The Prague Spring was a time period of political liberalization and mass protest in Czechoslovakia, which was a Communist State after WWII. It lasted from Jan 5, 1968 – Aug 21, 1968. ]]> 2020-04-28 23:33:47 UTC https://padlet.com/153004414/nzjgg9grkaqd4unv/wish/537760133 153004414 https://padlet.com/153004414/nzjgg9grkaqd4unv/wish/537766357 The 1948 Arab–Israeli War was the final stage of the 1947–49 Palestine war. The war began after the British Mandate for Palestine was issued on May 14, 1948. It ended in Israel winning.]]> 2020-04-28 23:39:38 UTC https://padlet.com/153004414/nzjgg9grkaqd4unv/wish/537766357