https://padlet.com/parkerpandas/t6je4p42kyov3ouo en-us 2021-04-02 01:42:25 UTC 2021-04-02 02:04:10 UTC hello@padlet.com parkerpandas https://padlet.com/parkerpandas/t6je4p42kyov3ouo/wish/1377222999 The Yalta Conference, also known as the Crimea Conference and code-named Argonaut, was a World War II assembly of the heads of state of the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Soviet Union to negotiate the postwar reorganization of Germany and Europe. It took place from February 4 to 11, 1945.]]> 2021-04-02 01:52:44 UTC https://padlet.com/parkerpandas/t6je4p42kyov3ouo/wish/1377222999 parkerpandas https://padlet.com/parkerpandas/t6je4p42kyov3ouo/wish/1377225744 NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) was established in 1949. In 1949, the United States, Canada, and other Western European nations established the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to provide mutual defense against the Soviet Union. NATO was the United States' first peacetime military coalition outside of the Western Hemisphere.]]> 2021-04-02 01:54:02 UTC https://padlet.com/parkerpandas/t6je4p42kyov3ouo/wish/1377225744 parkerpandas https://padlet.com/parkerpandas/t6je4p42kyov3ouo/wish/1377228636 The armistice signaled the culmination of America's first test of the Cold War principle of "restricted war." On June 25, 1950, communist North Korea invaded South Korea, starting the Korean War.]]> 2021-04-02 01:54:57 UTC https://padlet.com/parkerpandas/t6je4p42kyov3ouo/wish/1377228636 parkerpandas https://padlet.com/parkerpandas/t6je4p42kyov3ouo/wish/1377232051 Was a war between North Korea and South Korea, fought with the support of China and the Soviet Union (with the support of the United Nations, principally from the United States). The war began on June 25, 1950, when North Korea invaded South Korea after border disputes and insurgencies in the south. The fighting came to an unofficial end on July 27, 1953, when an armistice was signed.]]> 2021-04-02 01:56:38 UTC https://padlet.com/parkerpandas/t6je4p42kyov3ouo/wish/1377232051 parkerpandas https://padlet.com/parkerpandas/t6je4p42kyov3ouo/wish/1377232996 The Warsaw Pact, officially the Warsaw Treaty of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance (May 14, 1955–July 1, 1991), was a treaty between the Soviet Union and Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania that formed a mutual-defense organisation (Warsaw Treaty Organization).]]> 2021-04-02 01:57:09 UTC https://padlet.com/parkerpandas/t6je4p42kyov3ouo/wish/1377232996 parkerpandas https://padlet.com/parkerpandas/t6je4p42kyov3ouo/wish/1377235039 In October 1962, the United States and the Soviet Union came dangerously close to nuclear war for the first time. When President John F. Kennedy learned Soviet nuclear weapons on Cuba, he ordered their evacuation and declared a naval blockade of the island; Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev agreed a week later.]]> 2021-04-02 01:58:15 UTC https://padlet.com/parkerpandas/t6je4p42kyov3ouo/wish/1377235039 parkerpandas https://padlet.com/parkerpandas/t6je4p42kyov3ouo/wish/1377237205 The Korean Armistice Agreement is a cease-fire agreement that ended the Korean War's hostilities completely. Lieutenant General William Harrison, Jr. of the United States Army, North Korean General Nam Il of the Korean People's Army, and Peng Teh-huai of the Chinese People's Volunteer Army signed it on behalf of the United Nations Command.]]> 2021-04-02 01:59:28 UTC https://padlet.com/parkerpandas/t6je4p42kyov3ouo/wish/1377237205 parkerpandas https://padlet.com/parkerpandas/t6je4p42kyov3ouo/wish/1377239164 From 1961 to 1989, the Berlin Wall was a guarded concrete barrier that physically and politically separated Berlin. On August 13, 1961, the German Democratic Republic began construction on the wall. West Berlin was cut off from the rest of East Germany, including East Berlin, by the Berlin Wall. Guard towers were erected along massive concrete walls, and a large area was set aside to accommodate the danger.]]> 2021-04-02 02:00:34 UTC https://padlet.com/parkerpandas/t6je4p42kyov3ouo/wish/1377239164 parkerpandas https://padlet.com/parkerpandas/t6je4p42kyov3ouo/wish/1377240834 The Vietcong and the North Vietnamese army conducted an offensive in January–February 1968 during the Vietnam War. It was a surprise attack on South Vietnamese cities, especially Saigon, timed to coincide with the first day of Tet (Vietnamese New Year). The offensive, after being repulsed after initial victories, rattled US morale and accelerated the withdrawal of its troops.]]> 2021-04-02 02:01:30 UTC https://padlet.com/parkerpandas/t6je4p42kyov3ouo/wish/1377240834 parkerpandas https://padlet.com/parkerpandas/t6je4p42kyov3ouo/wish/1377244627 The collapse of the Berlin Wall (German: Mauerfall) on November 9, 1989, was a watershed moment in world history, marking the end of the Iron Curtain and the beginning of communism's demise in Eastern and Central Europe. Shortly after that, the inner German frontier fell.
The Protests of 1989 were the trigger for this.]]> 2021-04-02 02:03:40 UTC https://padlet.com/parkerpandas/t6je4p42kyov3ouo/wish/1377244627