https://padlet.com/336950/tnxl2h12d8dl Made with eyes on the prize en-us 2016-06-13 00:28:52 UTC 2016-06-13 04:32:24 UTC hello@padlet.com 336950 https://padlet.com/336950/tnxl2h12d8dl/wish/114434693 The Berlin wall was built to permanently close off access to West Germany and it was a symbol of the Cold War-"iron curtain" that divided up Europe. USSR launched a land blockade of West Berlin to force the west to abandon the city. However, a massive airlift by Britain and the US kept West Berlin supplied with food. The second Cold War event is the end of the Soviet Union. 11 Soviet republic states met and announced that they would no longer be a part of the Soviet Union. Only one of 15 republics remained. Instead of the USSR, they established the Commonwealth of Independent States or CIS.]]> 2016-06-13 00:40:34 UTC https://padlet.com/336950/tnxl2h12d8dl/wish/114434693 336950 https://padlet.com/336950/tnxl2h12d8dl/wish/114435428 The Vietnam War was a long, costly armed conflict that pitted the communist regime of North Vietnam and its southern allies against South Vietnam and the U.S. The war ended up with the withdrawal of U.S forces in 1973 and the unification of Vietnam under Communist control two years later. More than 3 million people, including 58,000 Americans, were killed in conflict. As a result, it made Americans way more wary about things.]]> 2016-06-13 00:58:41 UTC https://padlet.com/336950/tnxl2h12d8dl/wish/114435428 336950 https://padlet.com/336950/tnxl2h12d8dl/wish/114442291 During Mikhail Gorbachev's control, he realized that economic and social reforms could not occur without a free flow of ideas and information. In 1985, he announced a policy known as glasnost, or openness.Glasnost brought remarkable changes.The government allowed churches to open. Because individuals could not increase their pay by producing more, they had little motive to improve efficiency. In 1985, Gorbachev introduced the idea of perestroika, or economic reconstructing. The next year he made changes to revive the Soviet economy. ]]> 2016-06-13 03:21:15 UTC https://padlet.com/336950/tnxl2h12d8dl/wish/114442291 336950 https://padlet.com/336950/tnxl2h12d8dl/wish/114442833 With the fall of Communism is East Germany, Germans started talking about reunification-the merge of the two Germany's. However, the movement of reunification worried many people, who feared a united Germany. Germany was officially reunified on October 3, 1990 ]]> 2016-06-13 03:35:14 UTC https://padlet.com/336950/tnxl2h12d8dl/wish/114442833 336950 https://padlet.com/336950/tnxl2h12d8dl/wish/114443057 Detente is a policy of lessening Cold War tensions, replaced brinkmanship under Richard M. Nixon. President Nixon's move toward detente grew out of a philosophy known as realpolitik. Nixon's new policy represented shift for the country. Ping-pong diplomacy is an event where President Richard Nixon visited Beijing, China.]]> 2016-06-13 03:41:19 UTC https://padlet.com/336950/tnxl2h12d8dl/wish/114443057 336950 https://padlet.com/336950/tnxl2h12d8dl/wish/114443352 The Vietnam War was a long, armed conflict between North Vietnam and South Vietnam aside with the U.S. The war ended up with Vietnam being under Communist rule and around 3 million people died during conflict. The Korean War began when North Korea invaded South Korea. The United Nations and the U.S gave aid to South Korea. Also, China with the assistance of the Soviet Union came to aid North Korea. North Korea ended up being Communist and South Korea was the province of a nationalist, anti-communist government.]]> 2016-06-13 03:50:44 UTC https://padlet.com/336950/tnxl2h12d8dl/wish/114443352 336950 https://padlet.com/336950/tnxl2h12d8dl/wish/114443736 After World War ll, a new conflict began known as the Cold War. In the late 1950's space would become another dramatic arena. Each side sought to prove each others superiority of its technology. On October 1957, a Soviet ballistic missile launched Sputnik. In 1958, President Eisenhower created NASA. USSR launched Luna 2, the first space probe to hit the moon. On July 20, 1969, U.S sent their first manned space mission to orbit the moon and Neil Armstrong was the first man to land on the moon. The U.S won the Space Race.]]> 2016-06-13 03:59:13 UTC https://padlet.com/336950/tnxl2h12d8dl/wish/114443736 336950 https://padlet.com/336950/tnxl2h12d8dl/wish/114444812 Iron Curtain was the political, military , and ideological barrier erected by the Soviet Union after World War ll to seal off its allies. Stalin also agreed to permit free elections in Eastern Europe and to enter the Asian war against Japan, for which he was promised the return of lands lost to Japan in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05. The Warsaw Pact was a treaty where all the communist states where a part of.]]> 2016-06-13 04:10:55 UTC https://padlet.com/336950/tnxl2h12d8dl/wish/114444812 336950 https://padlet.com/336950/tnxl2h12d8dl/wish/114445150 NATO was a military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty signed on April 4 1949. The Allied powers were the ones who made the treaty for collective defense. The Truman Doctrine's purpose was to give support to countries threatened by the Soviet Forces. The Marshall Plan was an American initiative to aid Western Europe, in which the U.S gave over 12 billion dollars in economic support to help rebuild Western Europe economies. The Cuban Missile Crisis was when Castro became leader and he wanted Soviet support so then USSR started making bombs in Cuba and a spy plane saw it as a threat. Containment was a military strategy to stop the expansion of an enemy.]]> 2016-06-13 04:19:08 UTC https://padlet.com/336950/tnxl2h12d8dl/wish/114445150 336950 https://padlet.com/336950/tnxl2h12d8dl/wish/114445560 It was a meeting between the British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Soviet Joseph Stalin, and U.S President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The leaders agreed to require Germany's unconditional surrender and to set up 4 zones of occupation there run by the 3 countries and France. The Yalta Conference became controversial and led to the Cold War.]]> 2016-06-13 04:31:35 UTC https://padlet.com/336950/tnxl2h12d8dl/wish/114445560