https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi By the U.S.S.R. and the U.S.A. Cold War Timeline. en-us 2019-02-19 14:41:47 UTC 2025-05-20 15:54:42 UTC hello@padlet.com 21mcdonalds https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/332705893 Bolshevik revolutionaries overthrow the regime of Czar Nicholas II, and create a new government based on communist principles. Vladimir Lenin becomes the leader of the Bolshevik Party and the new Soviet Union.]]> 2019-02-19 14:46:25 UTC https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/332705893 21mcdonalds https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/332706620 WWI ends.]]> 2019-02-19 14:47:14 UTC https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/332706620 21mcnamaral https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/332706716 The United States and several other European states send a small expeditionary force to help Russian monarchist, counterrevolutionary forces try to topple the Bolsheviks, and restore the czarist regime.]]> 2019-02-19 14:47:23 UTC https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/332706716 21mcnamaral https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/332707563 Foreign troops leave Russia as the new Soviet government wipes out opposition and established control. This intervention establishes a climate of mistrust between the two nations that prevented them from establishing diplomatic relations for another 13 years.]]> 2019-02-19 14:48:13 UTC https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/332707563 21mcdonalds https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/332708317 WWII begins.]]> 2019-02-19 14:49:22 UTC https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/332708317 21mcdonalds https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/332708556 British and Americans don’t trust the USSR.]]> 2019-02-19 14:49:42 UTC https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/332708556 21mcdonalds https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/332708781 British and Americans still don’t trust the USSR.]]> 2019-02-19 14:49:58 UTC https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/332708781 21mcdonalds https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/332708922 Germany invades Russia, renouncing their agreement and cooperation with from 1939 up until that point.]]> 2019-02-19 14:50:10 UTC https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/332708922 21mcdonalds https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/332709280 Germany and Russia make an agreement and agree to cooperate with each other.]]> 2019-02-19 14:50:36 UTC https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/332709280 21mcdonalds https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/332709647 Stalin ensures the installation of pro-Soviet communist regimes in the countries of Eastern Europe that were heavily dependent on the Soviet Union until 1947.]]> 2019-02-19 14:51:09 UTC https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/332709647 21mcdonalds https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/332709862 President Franklin D. Roosevelt dies, and his successor, Harry Truman, emerges as a more determined opponent of communism.]]> 2019-02-19 14:51:31 UTC https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/332709862 21mcdonalds https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/332710000 WWII ends.]]> 2019-02-19 14:51:46 UTC https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/332710000 21mcdonalds https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/332710317 Winston Churchill, the wartime leader of Great Britain, gives one of his most famous speeches at Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri.]]> 2019-02-19 14:52:20 UTC https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/332710317 21mcdonalds https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/332710489 Truman pledges financial support to monarchists fighting Soviet-backed communists in a speech.]]> 2019-02-19 14:52:36 UTC https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/332710489 21mcdonalds https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/332710673 The Truman Doctrine is created as a way to rally the American people to commit the resources necessary to support freedom against what he called communist aggression.]]> 2019-02-19 14:52:54 UTC https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/332710673 21mcdonalds https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/332710794 Secretary of State George C. Marshall proposes in a commencement address at Harvard University.]]> 2019-02-19 14:53:05 UTC https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/332710794 21mcdonalds https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/332711371 Stalin sets up a blockade of the western half of Berlin. The Americans start the Berlin Airlift for a year.]]> 2019-02-19 14:54:03 UTC https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/332711371 21mcdonalds https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/332711521 The two nations clash over Soviet control of the Dardanelles Strait in Turkey—which offered access to the Mediterranean from the Black Sea—and over Soviet influence in Iran.]]> 2019-02-19 14:54:14 UTC https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/332711521 21mcdonalds https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/332711715 Stalin lifts the blockade, but Germany remains definitively divided into two separate nations, while Berlin remains a divided city. ]]> 2019-02-19 14:54:29 UTC https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/332711715 21mcdonalds https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/332711791 NATO is created.]]> 2019-02-19 14:54:37 UTC https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/332711791 21mcdonalds https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/332711898 The Soviet Union successfully tests its first nuclear device.]]> 2019-02-19 14:54:45 UTC https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/332711898 21mcdonalds https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/332712074 Korea is divided into separate nations following the end of World War II.]]> 2019-02-19 14:55:02 UTC https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/332712074 21mcnamaral https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/332889329 Start of the Korean War. ]]> 2019-02-19 19:26:19 UTC https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/332889329 21mcnamaral https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/332890065 Dwight D. Eisenhower ends the Korean War. ]]> 2019-02-19 19:27:43 UTC https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/332890065 21mcnamaral https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/332890290 Joseph Stalin dies. ]]> 2019-02-19 19:28:06 UTC https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/332890290 21mcnamaral https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/332890998 The Red Hysteria (aka McCarthyism) calms down, but the effects are instilled in U.S. citizens.]]> 2019-02-19 19:29:16 UTC https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/332890998 21mcnamaral https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/332891271 The French are defeated in the Indochina War, and Vietnam is split into a communist North and a U.S.-supported South.]]> 2019-02-19 19:29:48 UTC https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/332891271 21mcnamaral https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/332891560 New Soviet Leader Nikita Khrushchev forms the Warsaw Pact, a military alliance with Eastern Europe countering NATO, and causing America to become more wary of Soviet actions.]]> 2019-02-19 19:30:16 UTC https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/332891560 21mcnamaral https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/332891724 Soviets launch the satellite, Sputnik, evoking the fear of straggling US scientific achievement and that America was losing the Space race. ]]> 2019-02-19 19:30:35 UTC https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/332891724 21mcnamaral https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/332891886 Cuban Revolution. Fidel Castro establishes communist government 90 miles from the coast of Florida and promptly signs an alliance with the Soviet Union.]]> 2019-02-19 19:30:54 UTC https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/332891886 21mcnamaral https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/332892009 East German government is pressured by Khrushchev into building the Berlin Wall; further separating the two divided cities and preventing East Germans from escaping to West. This along with the escalating arms race between the US and the USSR, only increases the tensions between the two superpowers.]]> 2019-02-19 19:31:08 UTC https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/332892009 21mcnamaral https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/332892181 Americans discover that Soviets are installing nuclear missiles on Cuban soil, posing a direct threat to American cities. U.S. President John F. Kennedy demands that the Soviets remove the missiles, and the situation nearly develops into open war.]]> 2019-02-19 19:31:25 UTC https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/332892181 21mcnamaral https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/332892687 President Lyndon B. Johnson sends increasingly large numbers of combat troops to Vietnam.]]> 2019-02-19 19:32:20 UTC https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/332892687 21mcnamaral https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/332893187 Vietnam War quickly becomes unpopular among American people, provoking large protests on the home front.]]> 2019-02-19 19:33:16 UTC https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/332893187 21mcnamaral https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/332893522 Protests against the Vietnam War reaches phenomenal proportions.]]> 2019-02-19 19:33:55 UTC https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/332893522 21mcnamaral https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/332893639 President Richard Nixon ends US involvement in the Vietnam War by pulling troops, but by then nearly 60,000 American soldiers had died, along with millions of Vietnamese.]]> 2019-02-19 19:34:09 UTC https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/332893639 21mcnamaral https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/332894310  North Vietnamese forces finally overran the South, ending a conflict that was deeply humiliating for the United States and that had bitterly divided the nation.]]> 2019-02-19 19:35:23 UTC https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/332894310 21mcnamaral https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/332896251 Nixon visits China in a bid to normalize relations with that nation's communist government.]]> 2019-02-19 19:38:34 UTC https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/332896251 21mcnamaral https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/332896440 The Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty places limits on the number of nuclear warheads and weapons systems that each country could maintain, thus reining in somewhat the costly arms race that had characterized Soviet-American relations since the invention of the atomic bomb.]]> 2019-02-19 19:38:52 UTC https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/332896440 21mcnamaral https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/332896712 Despite a second treaty signed by Brezhnev and President Jimmy Carter, the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty II, the end of the decade brings renewed tensions.]]> 2019-02-19 19:39:21 UTC https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/332896712 21mcnamaral https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/332897046 Brezhnev invades Afghanistan- the support given by Soviet Union and Cuba to Brezhnev and communists revolutionaries to prop up pro-Soviet regime there is found “disturbing” to the US.   ]]> 2019-02-19 19:39:51 UTC https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/332897046 21mcnamaral https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/332897503 Ronald Reagan pledges to stand firm against what he termed "the evil empire" of the Soviet Union.]]> 2019-02-19 19:40:30 UTC https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/332897503 21mcnamaral https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/332897655 Mikhail Gorbachev becomes the leader of the Soviet Union, pledging thoroughgoing reforms of the entire communist system.]]> 2019-02-19 19:40:48 UTC https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/332897655 21mcnamaral https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/332897781 Nearly all the nations of Eastern Europe have new, democratic, non-communist governments. East and West Germany are reunited under a liberal democratic regime.]]> 2019-02-19 19:41:01 UTC https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/332897781 21mcnamaral https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/332898551 Nationalist movements in the various regions that made up the Soviet Union pull the empire apart and destroy the communist system completely.]]> 2019-02-19 19:42:24 UTC https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/332898551 21mcnamaral https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/332898631 The Cold War ends. Communist governments remain, most notably in China, Cuba, and North Korea, but they no longer present the same threat to U.S. national interests, despite more or less open hostility between these nations and the American government.]]> 2019-02-19 19:42:33 UTC https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/332898631 21mcnamaral https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/332898801 These regions became 15 independent nations, though many were still united in a loose constitutional arrangement known as the Russian Federation. Russia itself, the largest and most powerful of the constituent parts of the former Soviet Union, now had a democratic form of government.]]> 2019-02-19 19:42:55 UTC https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/332898801 21mcnamaral https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/333233844 2019-02-20 15:53:00 UTC https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/333233844 21mcnamaral https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/333234376 2019-02-20 15:53:59 UTC https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/333234376 21mcnamaral https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/333235378 2019-02-20 15:55:45 UTC https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/333235378 21mcnamaral https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/333238109 2019-02-20 16:00:52 UTC https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/333238109 21mcdonalds https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/333238326 2019-02-20 16:01:15 UTC https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/333238326 21mcnamaral https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/333238371 2019-02-20 16:01:21 UTC https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/333238371 21mcdonalds https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/333238647 2019-02-20 16:01:52 UTC https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/333238647 21mcdonalds https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/333238950 Along with Eisenhower's retraction of military spending, the Cold War seemingly stabilization. Since the end of WWII, there were many efforts to suppress communist political activity in the US, culminating in to a popular public campaign. Senator Joseph McCarthy led such campaign seeking to expose American “communist sympathizers”. Chaotic and fueled by public hysteria, the campaign led to many falsely accused and persecuted Americans. Lives and reputations were ruined, those of both the innocent and guilty, and sometimes resulted in incarceration. ]]> 2019-02-20 16:02:26 UTC https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/333238950 21mcdonalds https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/333239550 North Korea invaded South Korea. Truman reacts forcefully, leading an effort in the United Nations to commit troops to help the South Koreans fend off the communist invasion. Led by U.S. forces, the United Nations mounts an operation that soon developed into a protracted war.]]> 2019-02-20 16:03:25 UTC https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/333239550 21mcdonalds https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/333240032 2019-02-20 16:04:13 UTC https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/333240032 21mcnamaral https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/333241134 2019-02-20 16:05:49 UTC https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/333241134 21mcdonalds https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/333241332 2019-02-20 16:06:05 UTC https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/333241332 21mcnamaral https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/333242782 2019-02-20 16:08:08 UTC https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/333242782 21mcdonalds https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/333244002 2019-02-20 16:09:54 UTC https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/333244002 21mcdonalds https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/333244665 2019-02-20 16:10:54 UTC https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/333244665 21mcdonalds https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/333244953 2019-02-20 16:11:16 UTC https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/333244953 21mcdonalds https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/333245404 2019-02-20 16:11:55 UTC https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/333245404 21mcdonalds https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/333246622 2019-02-20 16:13:45 UTC https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/333246622 21mcdonalds https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/333247195 2019-02-20 16:14:37 UTC https://padlet.com/21mcnamaral/tml5e9zgarfi/wish/333247195