My fierce padlet by Langston Belin https://padlet.com/langstonb1/rosf1kiv5zx69khf en-us 2022-12-06 19:04:17 UTC 2025-10-21 21:50:45 UTC hello@padlet.com The Yalta Conference 1945 langstonb1 https://padlet.com/langstonb1/rosf1kiv5zx69khf/wish/2411161154 World War II conference of the three chief Allied leaders-Roosevelt of the United States, Churchill of Great Britain, Stalin of the Soviet Union,
Met at Yalta in the Crimea to plan the final defeat and occupation of Nazi Germany.

Stalin asks for Eastern European countries-promised free, democratic elections-HA!
]]> 2022-12-06 19:10:49 UTC https://padlet.com/langstonb1/rosf1kiv5zx69khf/wish/2411161154 The “Iron Curtain-1945” langstonb1 https://padlet.com/langstonb1/rosf1kiv5zx69khf/wish/2411164642 SEPARATION of Communist(Soviet Satellite nations) and Democratic countries in Eastern Europe
Barbed wire and guards separated them
These countries also called-EASTERN BLOC, COMMUNIST BLOC, SOVIET BLOC
SATELLITE COUNTRIES can be near or far from Soviet Union

]]> 2022-12-06 19:13:33 UTC https://padlet.com/langstonb1/rosf1kiv5zx69khf/wish/2411164642 MARSHALL PLAN langstonb1 https://padlet.com/langstonb1/rosf1kiv5zx69khf/wish/2411169008 “European Recovery
Program.” Marshall(Secretary of State).The U. S. should provide
aid to all European nations
that need it. Ensure these countries DO NOT become Communist.$13 billion of US aid to Western Europe extended to Eastern Europe & USSR, [but this was rejected].

]]> 2022-12-06 19:16:55 UTC https://padlet.com/langstonb1/rosf1kiv5zx69khf/wish/2411169008 Truman Doctrine [1947] langstonb1 https://padlet.com/langstonb1/rosf1kiv5zx69khf/wish/2411171316 “CONTAINMENT” OF COMMUNISM
ASSIST COUNTRIES THREATENED BY COMMUNIST TAKEOVER

“The U. S. should support free peoples throughout the world who were resisting takeovers by armed minorities or outside pressures…We must assist free peoples to work out their own destinies in their own way”.


]]> 2022-12-06 19:18:57 UTC https://padlet.com/langstonb1/rosf1kiv5zx69khf/wish/2411171316 U.N. IS FINALLY FORMED 1945 langstonb1 https://padlet.com/langstonb1/rosf1kiv5zx69khf/wish/2411174270 FORMED NEAR THE END OF WWII
CREATE A BODY FOR THE NATIONS OF THE WORLD TO TRY AND PREVENT FUTURE GLOBAL WARS

]]> 2022-12-06 19:21:29 UTC https://padlet.com/langstonb1/rosf1kiv5zx69khf/wish/2411174270 1948-1949-Berlin Blockade & Airlift langstonb1 https://padlet.com/langstonb1/rosf1kiv5zx69khf/wish/2411178518 LASTED FOR 1 YEAR 1948-1949 STALIN HAD BLOCKADED SUPPLIES TO WEST BERLIN TRUMAN AUTHORIZED GOODS AIR DROPPED TO THEM
STALIN REALIZED AIRLIFT WAS WORKING-LIFTED BLOCKADE

]]> 2022-12-06 19:24:36 UTC https://padlet.com/langstonb1/rosf1kiv5zx69khf/wish/2411178518 1949-The Arms Race langstonb1 https://padlet.com/langstonb1/rosf1kiv5zx69khf/wish/2411180138 The Soviet Union exploded its first A-bomb in 1949 developing nuclear weapons. Now there were two nuclear superpowers!

]]> 2022-12-06 19:25:43 UTC https://padlet.com/langstonb1/rosf1kiv5zx69khf/wish/2411180138 1949-North Atlantic Treaty Organization-NATO langstonb1 https://padlet.com/langstonb1/rosf1kiv5zx69khf/wish/2411181933 FIRST TIME U.S. INVOLVED IN PEACETIME MILITARY ALLIANCE SINCE REVOLUTIONARY WAR

]]> 2022-12-06 19:26:47 UTC https://padlet.com/langstonb1/rosf1kiv5zx69khf/wish/2411181933 1949-Chinese Civil War langstonb1 https://padlet.com/langstonb1/rosf1kiv5zx69khf/wish/2411185542 Mao Zedong led a civil war in 1949-His forces win & CHINA BECOMES COMMUNIST-supported by the USSR Previous leader Chiang Kai-Shek (Nationalist Party moved to Formosa-now Taiwan) US supported the Nationalist Party but would not get involved militarily.

]]> 2022-12-06 19:28:43 UTC https://padlet.com/langstonb1/rosf1kiv5zx69khf/wish/2411185542 Major Movements in China langstonb1 https://padlet.com/langstonb1/rosf1kiv5zx69khf/wish/2411188592  Deng Xiaoping (Pres. of China)
Continued Communist control of gov't but...
Reformed communist economy to market economy caused economic growth

]]> 2022-12-06 19:29:49 UTC https://padlet.com/langstonb1/rosf1kiv5zx69khf/wish/2411188592 1950 Start of Korean war langstonb1 https://padlet.com/langstonb1/rosf1kiv5zx69khf/wish/2413364088 A north koran aggressed war was started against the south with the us supporting the south and china and Russia as supporters for the north. ]]> 2022-12-07 19:00:58 UTC https://padlet.com/langstonb1/rosf1kiv5zx69khf/wish/2413364088 1953 End of Korean War langstonb1 https://padlet.com/langstonb1/rosf1kiv5zx69khf/wish/2413368284 This was the year the Korean War ended in a stale mate at the 38th parallel. The south would become very successful nation, with a economy controlled by one company owed by one family. While the north is controlled by a dictator with most of its population starving to death or ending up dead in a hellish camp. ]]> 2022-12-07 19:04:34 UTC https://padlet.com/langstonb1/rosf1kiv5zx69khf/wish/2413368284 Warsaw Pact 1955 langstonb1 https://padlet.com/langstonb1/rosf1kiv5zx69khf/wish/2413373805 Formed by the ussr and contained 
U. S. S. R., Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, And Romania. The other nations where weary of the USSRs intense control of the pact.
 
]]> 2022-12-07 19:09:14 UTC https://padlet.com/langstonb1/rosf1kiv5zx69khf/wish/2413373805 Vienna summit, June 4, 1961 langstonb1 https://padlet.com/langstonb1/rosf1kiv5zx69khf/wish/2413377367 JFK and Khrushchev meet to talk about Berlin and nuke build up. JFK was not taken seriously by Khrushchev and was seen as immature (He was a bad person like most Presidents) and a weak leader. ]]> 2022-12-07 19:12:07 UTC https://padlet.com/langstonb1/rosf1kiv5zx69khf/wish/2413377367 Belin Wall 1961 langstonb1 https://padlet.com/langstonb1/rosf1kiv5zx69khf/wish/2413381889 After the Berlin Airlift and Blockade the soviets build a wall between east and west Germany to prevent easterners from leaving their horrible country and enter freedom. ]]> 2022-12-07 19:15:43 UTC https://padlet.com/langstonb1/rosf1kiv5zx69khf/wish/2413381889 1963-KENNEDY’S SPEECH langstonb1 https://padlet.com/langstonb1/rosf1kiv5zx69khf/wish/2413384528 Kennedy tells the Berliners that the countries that make up nato are with the west berliners. This speech raised the confidence of the west berliners and gave them hope that they will reunite with there eastern half. ]]> 2022-12-07 19:17:56 UTC https://padlet.com/langstonb1/rosf1kiv5zx69khf/wish/2413384528 Khruschev Embraces Castro,1961-BEST BUDS langstonb1 https://padlet.com/langstonb1/rosf1kiv5zx69khf/wish/2414756251 2022-12-08 19:03:44 UTC https://padlet.com/langstonb1/rosf1kiv5zx69khf/wish/2414756251 1961-Bay of Pigs langstonb1 https://padlet.com/langstonb1/rosf1kiv5zx69khf/wish/2414760135 Cuba is now Communist. Cia got ex cubans to kill Castro and take back the country they ended up being jailed or killed and the plan was a failure. ]]> 2022-12-08 19:07:16 UTC https://padlet.com/langstonb1/rosf1kiv5zx69khf/wish/2414760135 CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS-1962-JFK langstonb1 https://padlet.com/langstonb1/rosf1kiv5zx69khf/wish/2414764301 In 1962 the CIA Found something horrifying in cuba, nuke silos where ready for bombs and FOR 13 DAYS The US AND The USSR HAD SHIPS AND NUKES POINTED AT EACH OTHER SOVIETS BACKED OFF This is the CLOSEST US and USSR CAME TO NUCLEAR WAR
 
]]> 2022-12-08 19:11:12 UTC https://padlet.com/langstonb1/rosf1kiv5zx69khf/wish/2414764301 JOHN F. KENNEDY1961-1963-PRESIDENT langstonb1 https://padlet.com/langstonb1/rosf1kiv5zx69khf/wish/2414767744 JFK was killed on Nov 22, 1963 by wanna be soviet Lee Harvey Oswald. VP Lyndon J was sworn in a President of the US. ]]> 2022-12-08 19:14:26 UTC https://padlet.com/langstonb1/rosf1kiv5zx69khf/wish/2414767744 Vietnam War: 1965-1973 langstonb1 https://padlet.com/langstonb1/rosf1kiv5zx69khf/wish/2414772775 In 1954 the communists north Vietnam Kicked out the french and then set their sights on the south, they where led by Ho Chi Min. Vietnam was controlled by the French until 1954 when they were defeated Vietnam is split into North Vietnam (Communist) led by Ho Chi Min and South Vietnam (democratic) America gets involved “containment of communism” to help South Vietnam when it was invaded by North Vietnam]]> 2022-12-08 19:18:49 UTC https://padlet.com/langstonb1/rosf1kiv5zx69khf/wish/2414772775 Vietnam continued langstonb1 https://padlet.com/langstonb1/rosf1kiv5zx69khf/wish/2414773562 In 1964, the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution gave Johnson the authority to send US troops there.550,000  Americans could not win with the North Vietnamese supplied by China and the USSR.

]]> 2022-12-08 19:19:32 UTC https://padlet.com/langstonb1/rosf1kiv5zx69khf/wish/2414773562 End of Vietnam langstonb1 https://padlet.com/langstonb1/rosf1kiv5zx69khf/wish/2414774466 Nixon tried “Vietnamization”(replacing American troops with South Vietnamese troops). 1975-North and South Vietnam merge under Communist control. Today-we have diplomatic and trading relations with them



]]> 2022-12-08 19:20:22 UTC https://padlet.com/langstonb1/rosf1kiv5zx69khf/wish/2414774466 End of communism 1980-1991 langstonb1 https://padlet.com/langstonb1/rosf1kiv5zx69khf/wish/2415967526 The freeze ends as dose the iron curtain the wall and the union.]]> 2022-12-09 19:07:14 UTC https://padlet.com/langstonb1/rosf1kiv5zx69khf/wish/2415967526 Ronald Reagan Star Wars langstonb1 https://padlet.com/langstonb1/rosf1kiv5zx69khf/wish/2415969597 He proposed the Strategic Defense Initiative (Star Wars); it was a missile system that could shoot down Nuclear weapons from space.  It caused concern for the Soviet Union


]]> 2022-12-09 19:09:20 UTC https://padlet.com/langstonb1/rosf1kiv5zx69khf/wish/2415969597 REAGAN’S SPEECH-1987 langstonb1 https://padlet.com/langstonb1/rosf1kiv5zx69khf/wish/2415970399 REAGAN CHALLENGED Gorbachev TO “OPEN THIS GATE AND TEAR DOWN THIS WALL" ]]> 2022-12-09 19:10:08 UTC https://padlet.com/langstonb1/rosf1kiv5zx69khf/wish/2415970399 President Reagan langstonb1 https://padlet.com/langstonb1/rosf1kiv5zx69khf/wish/2415971054  He created a Conservative Economic Policy for the United States that fixed the 1980 Recession . It was nicknamed Reaganomics.

]]> 2022-12-09 19:10:50 UTC https://padlet.com/langstonb1/rosf1kiv5zx69khf/wish/2415971054 Margaret Thatcher langstonb1 https://padlet.com/langstonb1/rosf1kiv5zx69khf/wish/2415972096 (PM of Britain)
Promotes free trade less gov't regulation of business
Asserted UK's military power
Creates closer relations with U.S   

]]> 2022-12-09 19:12:00 UTC https://padlet.com/langstonb1/rosf1kiv5zx69khf/wish/2415972096 1985 - Gorbachev comes to power langstonb1 https://padlet.com/langstonb1/rosf1kiv5zx69khf/wish/2415972874 On March 11, Mikhail Gorbachev came to power in the Soviet Union. Gorbachev ushered in an era of reform. Perestroika Economic reform- restructuring Glasnost Means openness, allowed greater free expression and criticism of Soviet policies

]]> 2022-12-09 19:12:53 UTC https://padlet.com/langstonb1/rosf1kiv5zx69khf/wish/2415972874 Expansion of NATO: langstonb1 https://padlet.com/langstonb1/rosf1kiv5zx69khf/wish/2415973500 Expansion of NATO:
NATO got more powerful as more countries joined it
Ripping down of berlin Wall
Symbolizes end of Communism in eastern Europe and end of cold War
1989-protestors begin tearing down Berlin _Wall, Others behind the Iron Curtain _begin to protest

The wall comes down November 1989

]]> 2022-12-09 19:13:19 UTC https://padlet.com/langstonb1/rosf1kiv5zx69khf/wish/2415973500 CHINA Tiananmen Square massacre langstonb1 https://padlet.com/langstonb1/rosf1kiv5zx69khf/wish/2415974091 CHINESE STUDENTS ALSO HAD PROTESTS AGAINST THEIR OPPRESSIVE COMMUNIST GOVERNMENT THESE WERE UNSUCCESSFUL AS A MARTIAL LAW WAS IMPOSED AND MANY PROTESTORS WERE JAILED OR MASSACRED

1991-BUSH AND GORBACHEV END OF COLD WAR 
DISSOLUTION OF THE SOVIET UNION-Now called Russia again


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