https://padlet.com/nbeaumont1/x396jhsovmza by natalia beaumont en-us 2020-03-04 16:42:22 UTC 2023-03-27 10:32:23 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f436.png nbeaumont1 https://padlet.com/nbeaumont1/x396jhsovmza/wish/454469902 a conference of all of the World War II allied nations. The countries promised that their central banks would maintain fixed exchange rates between their currencies and the dollar. It is an example of internationalism because it was a bunch of different coming together to work on their banks. World Bank: and international organization dedicated to providing financing advice and research to developing nations to aid their economic advancement. International Monetary Fund: is an international organization headquartered in Washington DC, consisting of 189 countries working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth. ]]> 2020-03-04 16:46:25 UTC https://padlet.com/nbeaumont1/x396jhsovmza/wish/454469902 nbeaumont1 https://padlet.com/nbeaumont1/x396jhsovmza/wish/455004398 an international organization founded in 1945. It is currently made up of 193 member states. The mission work of the UN are guided by the purpose and principles contained in their founding charter. 
General Assembly: the main deliberative, policy making and representative organ of the UN.
Security Council: one of the six principle organs of the UN, charged with ensuring international peace and security. ]]> 2020-03-05 13:06:10 UTC https://padlet.com/nbeaumont1/x396jhsovmza/wish/455004398 nbeaumont1 https://padlet.com/nbeaumont1/x396jhsovmza/wish/455009181 Winston Church Hill visited West minister college as the Green Lecturer and delivered Sinews of Peace a message heard round the world that went down in history as the Iron Curtain Speech. 
Iron Curtain: a nonphysical boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of WWII in 1945 until the end of the Cold War in 1991. ]]> 2020-03-05 13:14:50 UTC https://padlet.com/nbeaumont1/x396jhsovmza/wish/455009181 nbeaumont1 https://padlet.com/nbeaumont1/x396jhsovmza/wish/455013747 An american foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War. 
First used in Turkey. ]]> 2020-03-05 13:21:50 UTC https://padlet.com/nbeaumont1/x396jhsovmza/wish/455013747 nbeaumont1 https://padlet.com/nbeaumont1/x396jhsovmza/wish/455016024 also known as the European Recovery Program, was a US program providing aid to western Europe following the devastation of WWII and to halt the spread communism on the European continent. Marshall announced that the purpose of sending aid to Western Europe was completely humanitarian and even offered aid to the communist states in the east. ]]> 2020-03-05 13:25:21 UTC https://padlet.com/nbeaumont1/x396jhsovmza/wish/455016024 nbeaumont1 https://padlet.com/nbeaumont1/x396jhsovmza/wish/455019402 The first battle of the Cold War, when western countries delivered much needed food and supplies to the city of Berlin through the air because all other routes were blocked by the Soviet Union. 
The airlift was their response to the Soviet closure of ground routes to western occupied parts of Berlin. The Berlin airlift lasted 11 months. ]]> 2020-03-05 13:30:13 UTC https://padlet.com/nbeaumont1/x396jhsovmza/wish/455019402 nbeaumont1 https://padlet.com/nbeaumont1/x396jhsovmza/wish/455022422 created to provide collective security against the Soviet Union. 
Collective Security: the cooperation of several countries in an alliance to strengthen the security of each. 
NATO is the best known collective defense organization, its famous article 5 calls on member states to assist another member under attack. ]]> 2020-03-05 13:34:43 UTC https://padlet.com/nbeaumont1/x396jhsovmza/wish/455022422 nbeaumont1 https://padlet.com/nbeaumont1/x396jhsovmza/wish/455037765 A German born physicist who had helped the United States build its first atomic bomb was arrested for passing nuclear secrets to the soviets. Tension was greatly increased as a result of the developing arms race which served to militarize both sides bringing war closer. ]]> 2020-03-05 13:54:20 UTC https://padlet.com/nbeaumont1/x396jhsovmza/wish/455037765 nbeaumont1 https://padlet.com/nbeaumont1/x396jhsovmza/wish/455043410 A political and military alliance established on May 14th 1955 between the Soviet Union and several Eastern European countries. 
The Warsaw Pact was created in reaction to the integration of West Germany into NATO in 1955 per the London and Paris Conferences of 1954, but it is also considered to have been motivated by Soviet desires to maintain control over military forces in central and Eastern Europe. 
The Soviet Union was in control of most of the nations involved in the Warsaw Pact. ]]> 2020-03-05 14:01:52 UTC https://padlet.com/nbeaumont1/x396jhsovmza/wish/455043410