https://padlet.com/3000223141_1/rz00j5a2av454v8a Made with the best of intentions en-us 2022-05-06 18:29:28 UTC 2022-05-06 19:10:24 UTC hello@padlet.com 3000223141_1 https://padlet.com/3000223141_1/rz00j5a2av454v8a/wish/2173312469 After Stalin died in 1953, Nikita Khrushchev stepped into power in the Soviet Union. Khrushchev was against Stalin's killing and arresting of loyal Soviet citizens. He began "destalinization", which tried to purge Stalin's legacy from the country. This was important because it brought the beginning of the end of the Cold War.]]> 2022-05-06 18:34:23 UTC https://padlet.com/3000223141_1/rz00j5a2av454v8a/wish/2173312469 3000223141_1 https://padlet.com/3000223141_1/rz00j5a2av454v8a/wish/2173313791 In 1964, Khrushchev was voted out of power and replaced by Leonid Brezhnev. Brezhnev enforced more censorship in all of Eastern Europe. Czechoslovakian leader Alexander Dubcek was trying to loosen up restrictions and he started Prague Spring, in which there was a burst of new ideas throughout Czechoslovakia. Brezhnev saw this and decided to send in forces to invade Czechoslovakia.]]> 2022-05-06 18:35:34 UTC https://padlet.com/3000223141_1/rz00j5a2av454v8a/wish/2173313791 3000223141_1 https://padlet.com/3000223141_1/rz00j5a2av454v8a/wish/2173313966 Detente was Nixon's plan to ease tensions between the USA and the USSR. ]]> 2022-05-06 18:35:44 UTC https://padlet.com/3000223141_1/rz00j5a2av454v8a/wish/2173313966 3000223141_1 https://padlet.com/3000223141_1/rz00j5a2av454v8a/wish/2173314151 (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks)Nixon and Brezhnev signed a treaty to deescalate the cold war and get rid of the excessive amount of nuclear weapons]]> 2022-05-06 18:35:54 UTC https://padlet.com/3000223141_1/rz00j5a2av454v8a/wish/2173314151 3000223141_1 https://padlet.com/3000223141_1/rz00j5a2av454v8a/wish/2173314681 Gorbache was the final leader of the Soviet Union before the end of the war. He decided to advocate for there to be more openness in Russia and let people speak their minds. Once people got a taste of this, there was no going back and communism began to dwindle in Eastern Europe. ]]> 2022-05-06 18:36:24 UTC https://padlet.com/3000223141_1/rz00j5a2av454v8a/wish/2173314681 3000223141_1 https://padlet.com/3000223141_1/rz00j5a2av454v8a/wish/2173314989 The falling of the Berlin Wall symbolized the end of the war and reunified East and West Germany.]]> 2022-05-06 18:36:39 UTC https://padlet.com/3000223141_1/rz00j5a2av454v8a/wish/2173314989