https://padlet.com/ebuffington/xmetq4dzmrqk Events leading to the Cold War en-us 2020-03-05 14:09:52 UTC 2023-02-27 07:24:02 UTC hello@padlet.com ebuffington https://padlet.com/ebuffington/xmetq4dzmrqk/wish/455051806 The Bretton Woods agreement created in a 1944 conference in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire. Under the agreement, countries promised that their central banks would maintain fixed exchange rates between their currencies and the dollar. INTERNATIONALISM
World Bank: International organization that continues to work to improve conditions in all nations.
International Monetary Fund: An international organization that was created to improve financial conditions in all nations. ]]> 2020-03-05 14:11:22 UTC https://padlet.com/ebuffington/xmetq4dzmrqk/wish/455051806 ebuffington https://padlet.com/ebuffington/xmetq4dzmrqk/wish/455063849 On October 24, 1945 in San Francisco, CA the United Nations was created. The United Nations is an international organization founded after WW2 by 51 countries committed to maintaining international peace and security, developing friendly relations amount nations.
General Assembly: The representative lawmaking branch of the government in North Carolina.
Security Council: Under the United Nations Charter, for the maintenance of international peace and security. ]]> 2020-03-05 14:24:59 UTC https://padlet.com/ebuffington/xmetq4dzmrqk/wish/455063849 ebuffington https://padlet.com/ebuffington/xmetq4dzmrqk/wish/455725161 A speech given by Sir Winston Churchill when he visited Westminster College and it went on to be the message heard around the world. 
The iron curtain was a boundary dividing Europe into 2 separate areas from the end of world war II. ]]> 2020-03-06 13:42:27 UTC https://padlet.com/ebuffington/xmetq4dzmrqk/wish/455725161 ebuffington https://padlet.com/ebuffington/xmetq4dzmrqk/wish/455728854 Truman Doctrine was an American foreign policy whose stated purpose was to counter Soviet geopolitical expansion during the Cold War.
The doctrine is a United States policy using numerous strategies to prevent the spread of communism. ]]> 2020-03-06 13:47:48 UTC https://padlet.com/ebuffington/xmetq4dzmrqk/wish/455728854 ebuffington https://padlet.com/ebuffington/xmetq4dzmrqk/wish/455731820 The Marshall Plan was a U.S. program providing aid to Western Europe following the devastation of WW2. Also known as European Recovery Program. 
This plan was also another U.S. policy to help the world recover from WW2 and stop communism spreading. ]]> 2020-03-06 13:51:57 UTC https://padlet.com/ebuffington/xmetq4dzmrqk/wish/455731820 ebuffington https://padlet.com/ebuffington/xmetq4dzmrqk/wish/455733740 Leading up to the Berlin Airlift, the soviet union blocked the western allies railways, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under western control. 
The western allies designed to prevent the expansion of Soviet communism. Lasted 11 months.

]]> 2020-03-06 13:54:44 UTC https://padlet.com/ebuffington/xmetq4dzmrqk/wish/455733740 ebuffington https://padlet.com/ebuffington/xmetq4dzmrqk/wish/455740008 Created by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations 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 an example because it is nations together truing to weaken another nation so they have less power. ]]> 2020-03-06 14:03:09 UTC https://padlet.com/ebuffington/xmetq4dzmrqk/wish/455740008 ebuffington https://padlet.com/ebuffington/xmetq4dzmrqk/wish/455745532 A German-born physicist was arrested for passing nuclear secrets to the soviets. Becuase the US did not predict that the Soviet Union would have nuclear weapons until mid-1950s. And the man who helped create the American atomic bomb passes secrets. ]]> 2020-03-06 14:10:13 UTC https://padlet.com/ebuffington/xmetq4dzmrqk/wish/455745532 ebuffington https://padlet.com/ebuffington/xmetq4dzmrqk/wish/455749275 A treaty established a mutual-defense organization composed originally of the Soviet Union, Albania, Bulgaria, East Germany, Poland, and Hungary. 
It was created in reaction to the integration of West Germany into NATO in 1955 per the London and Paris conferences of 1954. 
The Soviet Union Controlled most of the nations involved. ]]> 2020-03-06 14:15:08 UTC https://padlet.com/ebuffington/xmetq4dzmrqk/wish/455749275