Cold War Timeline by Rylee Reese https://padlet.com/rr20692/wu37iriyxsx7exmw The 10 Most Important Events of this Period (#1 is given to you) en-us 2022-04-20 19:28:09 UTC 2025-04-03 16:36:20 UTC hello@padlet.com February 4th-11th 1945 rr20692 https://padlet.com/rr20692/wu37iriyxsx7exmw/wish/2150915914 Meeting between Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin to decide what would happen at the end of the war. Topics discussed included –
Partitioning of Germany
Fate of Poland
The United Nations
German reparations
]]> 2022-04-20 19:37:55 UTC https://padlet.com/rr20692/wu37iriyxsx7exmw/wish/2150915914 March 5th 1945 rr20692 https://padlet.com/rr20692/wu37iriyxsx7exmw/wish/2151969860 Churchill delivers his ‘Sinews of Peace’ speech which contain the famous phrase “..an iron curtain has descended on Europe”]]> 2022-04-21 12:42:46 UTC https://padlet.com/rr20692/wu37iriyxsx7exmw/wish/2151969860 March 12th 1947 rr20692 https://padlet.com/rr20692/wu37iriyxsx7exmw/wish/2151971638 President Truman promised to help any country facing a Communist takeover]]> 2022-04-21 12:44:16 UTC https://padlet.com/rr20692/wu37iriyxsx7exmw/wish/2151971638 June 24th 1948 rr20692 https://padlet.com/rr20692/wu37iriyxsx7exmw/wish/2152165391 Russia’s response to the merger of the French, USA and UK partitions of Berlin was to cut all road and rail links to that sector. This meant that those living in Western Berlin had no access to food supplies and faced starvation. Food was brought to Western Berliners by US and UK airplanes, an exercise known as the Berlin Airlift.]]> 2022-04-21 14:44:07 UTC https://padlet.com/rr20692/wu37iriyxsx7exmw/wish/2152165391 April 4th 1949 rr20692 https://padlet.com/rr20692/wu37iriyxsx7exmw/wish/2152167604 The North Atlantic Treaty Organization formed with member states Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom, and the United States]]> 2022-04-21 14:45:39 UTC https://padlet.com/rr20692/wu37iriyxsx7exmw/wish/2152167604 June 25th 1950 rr20692 https://padlet.com/rr20692/wu37iriyxsx7exmw/wish/2152169118 The Korean war began when North Korea invaded South Korea.]]> 2022-04-21 14:46:36 UTC https://padlet.com/rr20692/wu37iriyxsx7exmw/wish/2152169118 July 27th 1953 rr20692 https://padlet.com/rr20692/wu37iriyxsx7exmw/wish/2152171209 The Korean war ended. North Korea remained affiliated with Russia while South Korea was affiliated with the USA.]]> 2022-04-21 14:47:52 UTC https://padlet.com/rr20692/wu37iriyxsx7exmw/wish/2152171209 May 14th 1955 rr20692 https://padlet.com/rr20692/wu37iriyxsx7exmw/wish/2152173522
The Warsaw Pact was formed with member states East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Albania, Bulgaria, and the Soviet Union.]]> 2022-04-21 14:49:22 UTC https://padlet.com/rr20692/wu37iriyxsx7exmw/wish/2152173522 October 23rd 1956 rr20692 https://padlet.com/rr20692/wu37iriyxsx7exmw/wish/2152175611 This began as a Hungarian protest against Communist rule in Budapest. It quickly gathered momentum and on 24th October Soviet tanks entered Budapest. The tanks withdrew on 28th October and a new government was formed which quickly moved to introduce democracy, freedom of speech, and freedom of religion. The Soviet tanks returned on 4th November encircling Budapest. The Prime Minister Imre Nagy made a World broadcast that Hungary was under attack from the Soviet Union and calling for aid. Hungary fell to Russia on 10th November 1956.]]> 2022-04-21 14:50:35 UTC https://padlet.com/rr20692/wu37iriyxsx7exmw/wish/2152175611 April 12th 1961 rr20692 https://padlet.com/rr20692/wu37iriyxsx7exmw/wish/2152177527 Russian cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyvich Gagarin became the first human being in space.]]> 2022-04-21 14:51:41 UTC https://padlet.com/rr20692/wu37iriyxsx7exmw/wish/2152177527