Cold War Timeline by Kennedy Askew https://padlet.com/kaskew2/ve762af4lv67 Created by: Kennedy, Megan, Paige, and Christian en-us 2017-02-21 13:30:25 UTC 2023-05-09 12:11:37 UTC hello@padlet.com Nonalignment christiangipson42 https://padlet.com/kaskew2/ve762af4lv67/wish/155137128 A policy that rejects political or military alliances with a world power as the U.S. or the people's republic of China.]]> 2017-02-21 13:45:20 UTC https://padlet.com/kaskew2/ve762af4lv67/wish/155137128 Detente [dey-tahnt] christiangipson42 https://padlet.com/kaskew2/ve762af4lv67/wish/155140679 The relaxation from stress especially between nations.]]> 2017-02-21 13:55:52 UTC https://padlet.com/kaskew2/ve762af4lv67/wish/155140679 megankay4343 https://padlet.com/kaskew2/ve762af4lv67/wish/155142200 Nixon and Brezhnev during the latter’s visit to the U.S. in 1973. (Nixon Presidential Library)]]> 2017-02-21 14:00:11 UTC https://padlet.com/kaskew2/ve762af4lv67/wish/155142200 On December 17, 1979, 19 Senators wrote Carter that “Ratification of a SALT II Treaty will not reverse trends in the military balance adverse to the United States.” megankay4343 https://padlet.com/kaskew2/ve762af4lv67/wish/155146206 2017-02-21 14:10:45 UTC https://padlet.com/kaskew2/ve762af4lv67/wish/155146206 Mikhail Gorbachev kaskew2 https://padlet.com/kaskew2/ve762af4lv67/wish/155146392 He was a delegate to the Communist Party Congress. He became president of Russia in May of 1990 and won the Noble Prize that same year.]]> 2017-02-21 14:11:11 UTC https://padlet.com/kaskew2/ve762af4lv67/wish/155146392 Nikita Khrushchev kaskew2 https://padlet.com/kaskew2/ve762af4lv67/wish/155216000 He led the Soviet Union during the Cold War in 1958 to 1964. though he wanted peace with the west, he instigated the Cuban Missile Crisis, which placed nuclear weapons 90 miles from Florida.]]> 2017-02-21 16:53:23 UTC https://padlet.com/kaskew2/ve762af4lv67/wish/155216000 Boris Yeltsin kaskew2 https://padlet.com/kaskew2/ve762af4lv67/wish/155232442 He was the first freely elected president of Russia in 1990.]]> 2017-02-21 17:32:47 UTC https://padlet.com/kaskew2/ve762af4lv67/wish/155232442 Ronald Reagan kaskew2 https://padlet.com/kaskew2/ve762af4lv67/wish/155233348 He was the 40th president of the United States from 1981 to 1989]]> 2017-02-21 17:34:59 UTC https://padlet.com/kaskew2/ve762af4lv67/wish/155233348 Glasnost christiangipson42 https://padlet.com/kaskew2/ve762af4lv67/wish/155536030 The practice of an open government and a wider range of information led by Mikhail Gorbachev in 1985.]]> 2017-02-22 17:46:53 UTC https://padlet.com/kaskew2/ve762af4lv67/wish/155536030 "Given this situation, ... in the future, the United States must base decisions regarding its strategic force structure on the nature and magnitude of the threat posed by Soviet strategic forces and not on standards contained in the SALT structure...." president Reagan megankay4343 https://padlet.com/kaskew2/ve762af4lv67/wish/155555012 2017-02-22 18:32:52 UTC https://padlet.com/kaskew2/ve762af4lv67/wish/155555012 megankay4343 https://padlet.com/kaskew2/ve762af4lv67/wish/155560243 a section of the us newspaper headlines on president Truman's announcement that soviet union had conducted its first nuclear weapon test 24th September 1949]]> 2017-02-22 18:45:59 UTC https://padlet.com/kaskew2/ve762af4lv67/wish/155560243 Harry Truman had only been vice president for three months before assuming the presidency. During his nearly eight years in office, he attempted to contain the spread of communism as the Cold War heated up. megankay4343 https://padlet.com/kaskew2/ve762af4lv67/wish/155562634 2017-02-22 18:52:47 UTC https://padlet.com/kaskew2/ve762af4lv67/wish/155562634 Perestroika christiangipson42 https://padlet.com/kaskew2/ve762af4lv67/wish/155704743 the policy or practice of restructuring or reforming the economic and political system.]]> 2017-02-23 11:10:09 UTC https://padlet.com/kaskew2/ve762af4lv67/wish/155704743