Ten Things You Need to Know About the Cold War by Valeria Guillen https://padlet.com/329685/vvmhr2v1f375 en-us 2017-06-12 18:48:57 UTC 2023-04-21 19:01:11 UTC hello@padlet.com 329685 https://padlet.com/329685/vvmhr2v1f375/wish/176150664 Cold War
The Cold War was a state of geopolitical tension after World War II between powers in the Eastern Bloc and powers in the Western Bloc.
]]> 2017-06-12 19:09:58 UTC https://padlet.com/329685/vvmhr2v1f375/wish/176150664 The Yalta Confrence 329685 https://padlet.com/329685/vvmhr2v1f375/wish/176151401 2017-06-12 19:16:11 UTC https://padlet.com/329685/vvmhr2v1f375/wish/176151401 The Yalta Conference, sometimes called the Crimea conference and code named the Argonaut Conference, held from February 4 to 11, 1945, was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United States, the United Kingdom and the Soviet Union for the purpose of discussing Europe's postwar reorganization. The three states were represented by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Premier Joseph Stalin, respectively. The conference convened in the Livadia Palace near Yalta in Crimea, Soviet Union. 329685 https://padlet.com/329685/vvmhr2v1f375/wish/176169424 2017-06-12 23:17:18 UTC https://padlet.com/329685/vvmhr2v1f375/wish/176169424 The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created in 1949 by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union 329685 https://padlet.com/329685/vvmhr2v1f375/wish/176169844 2017-06-12 23:23:12 UTC https://padlet.com/329685/vvmhr2v1f375/wish/176169844 Truman Doctrine 329685 https://padlet.com/329685/vvmhr2v1f375/wish/176169925 With the Truman Doctrine, President Harry S. Truman established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations.The Truman Doctrine effectively reoriented U.S. foreign policy, away from its usual stance of withdrawal from regional conflicts not directly involving the United States, to one of possible intervention in far away conflicts]]> 2017-06-12 23:24:23 UTC https://padlet.com/329685/vvmhr2v1f375/wish/176169925 The Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 was a direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and was the moment when the two superpowers came closest to nuclear conflict. The crisis was unique in a number of ways, featuring calculations and miscalculations as well as direct and secret communications and miscommunications between the two sides. 329685 https://padlet.com/329685/vvmhr2v1f375/wish/176171490 2017-06-12 23:48:06 UTC https://padlet.com/329685/vvmhr2v1f375/wish/176171490 The Marshall Plan, also known as the European Recovery Program, channeled over $13 billion to finance the economic recovery of Europe between 1948 and 1951. The Marshall Plan successfully sparked economic recovery, meeting its objective of ‘restoring the confidence of the European people in the economic future of their own countries and of Europe as a whole.’ The plan is named for Secretary of State George C. Marshall, who announced it in a commencement speech at Harvard University on June 5, 1947 329685 https://padlet.com/329685/vvmhr2v1f375/wish/176172362 2017-06-13 00:00:14 UTC https://padlet.com/329685/vvmhr2v1f375/wish/176172362 Iron curtain 329685 https://padlet.com/329685/vvmhr2v1f375/wish/176182261 the notional barrier separating the former Soviet bloc and the West prior to the decline of communism that followed the political events in eastern Europe in 1989]]> 2017-06-13 02:13:16 UTC https://padlet.com/329685/vvmhr2v1f375/wish/176182261 The warsaw pact 329685 https://padlet.com/329685/vvmhr2v1f375/wish/176183731 The Warsaw Treaty Organizationwas a political and military alliance established on May 14, 1955 between the Soviet Union and several Eastern European countries. The Soviet Union formed this alliance as a counterbalance to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), a collective security alliance concluded between the United States, Canada and Western European nations in 1949]]> 2017-06-13 02:29:07 UTC https://padlet.com/329685/vvmhr2v1f375/wish/176183731 Space Race 329685 https://padlet.com/329685/vvmhr2v1f375/wish/176184274 In the mid-1950s, the rivalry between the Cold War superpowers - the United States and the Soviet Union - was taken into space, giving rise to a period known as the Space Race that lasted until the early 1970s. Marked by bitter competition between the U.S. and the USSR, ]]> 2017-06-13 02:35:50 UTC https://padlet.com/329685/vvmhr2v1f375/wish/176184274 329685 https://padlet.com/329685/vvmhr2v1f375/wish/176184968 2017-06-13 02:45:57 UTC https://padlet.com/329685/vvmhr2v1f375/wish/176184968 Vietnamization of the war was a policy of the Richard Nixon administration to end U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War through a program to "expand, equip, and train South Vietnam's forces 329685 https://padlet.com/329685/vvmhr2v1f375/wish/176185173 2017-06-13 02:48:27 UTC https://padlet.com/329685/vvmhr2v1f375/wish/176185173 Detente 329685 https://padlet.com/329685/vvmhr2v1f375/wish/176185634 The easing of hostility or strained relations, especially between countries]]> 2017-06-13 02:54:06 UTC https://padlet.com/329685/vvmhr2v1f375/wish/176185634 The fall of the soviet union 329685 https://padlet.com/329685/vvmhr2v1f375/wish/176185826 On December 25, 1991, the Soviet hammer and sickle flag lowered for the last time over the Kremlin, thereafter replaced by the Russian tricolor. Earlier in the day, Mikhail Gorbachev resigned his post as president of the Soviet Union, leaving Boris Yeltsin as president of the newly independent Russian state.]]> 2017-06-13 02:57:46 UTC https://padlet.com/329685/vvmhr2v1f375/wish/176185826 was Israel created 329685 https://padlet.com/329685/vvmhr2v1f375/wish/176186105 2017-06-13 03:02:16 UTC https://padlet.com/329685/vvmhr2v1f375/wish/176186105