https://padlet.com/cooper_helton/yqfc40dnsfh2w54d en-us 2022-04-19 18:02:02 UTC 2022-05-20 12:40:41 UTC hello@padlet.com cooper_helton https://padlet.com/cooper_helton/yqfc40dnsfh2w54d/wish/2192920976 The Cuban Missile Crisis involved both the Soviet Union and the U.S. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, leaders of the U.S. and the Soviet Union engaged in a tense, 13-day political and military standoff in October 1962 over the installation of nuclear-armed Soviet missiles on Cuba, just 90 miles from U.S. shores]]> 2022-05-20 12:26:51 UTC https://padlet.com/cooper_helton/yqfc40dnsfh2w54d/wish/2192920976 cooper_helton https://padlet.com/cooper_helton/yqfc40dnsfh2w54d/wish/2192925782 I BELIEVE THIS EVENT IS THE MOST SIGNIFICANT TO THE ENDING OF THE COLD WAR!!! The East German soldiers laid down more than 30 miles of barbed wire barrier through the heart of Berlin. East Berlin citizens were forbidden to pass into West Berlin, and the number of checkpoints at which Westerners could cross the border was drastically reduced. This event of it getting torn down was on November 9th, 1989.]]> 2022-05-20 12:31:12 UTC https://padlet.com/cooper_helton/yqfc40dnsfh2w54d/wish/2192925782 cooper_helton https://padlet.com/cooper_helton/yqfc40dnsfh2w54d/wish/2192929065 The Bay of Pigs Invasion was a failed landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba in 1961 by Cuban exiles who opposed Fidel Castro's Cuban Revolution, covertly financed and directed by the U.S. government.]]> 2022-05-20 12:33:59 UTC https://padlet.com/cooper_helton/yqfc40dnsfh2w54d/wish/2192929065 cooper_helton https://padlet.com/cooper_helton/yqfc40dnsfh2w54d/wish/2192931963 Gorbachev's decision to allow elections with a multi-party system and create a presidency for the Soviet Union began a slow process of democratization that eventually destabilized Communist control and contributed to the collapse of the Soviet Union. This happened in the year of 1991 on December 26th.]]> 2022-05-20 12:36:20 UTC https://padlet.com/cooper_helton/yqfc40dnsfh2w54d/wish/2192931963