https://padlet.com/kdod2759/z0tdrzkkviwa Made with charisma en-us 2018-04-24 14:38:01 UTC 2018-05-02 14:20:57 UTC hello@padlet.com mgri7088 https://padlet.com/kdod2759/z0tdrzkkviwa/wish/254857101 The Berlin Airlift was in Berlin, Germany. The Soviet Union blockade failed. The Berlin airlift started in 1948 to 1949. Berlin was located far inside Soviet Union controlled eastern Germany.

]]> 2018-04-24 14:42:26 UTC https://padlet.com/kdod2759/z0tdrzkkviwa/wish/254857101 pbra9603 https://padlet.com/kdod2759/z0tdrzkkviwa/wish/254859312 The Iranian Hostage Crisis was a diplomatic standoff between Iran and the United States. Fifty-two American diplomats and citizens were held hostage for 444 days from November 4, 1979, to January 20, 1981.]]> 2018-04-24 14:46:11 UTC https://padlet.com/kdod2759/z0tdrzkkviwa/wish/254859312 mgri7088 https://padlet.com/kdod2759/z0tdrzkkviwa/wish/254860565 The Chinese Revolution of 1949 on October 1 Chinese communist leader Mao Zedong declared the creation of the people's Republic of China. The Chinese Revolution was to get more power than they had.  It was in China. ]]> 2018-04-24 14:48:19 UTC https://padlet.com/kdod2759/z0tdrzkkviwa/wish/254860565 pbra9603 https://padlet.com/kdod2759/z0tdrzkkviwa/wish/254863618 The 1973 Chilean Coup D'état was a watershed event in the Cold War. The Congress of Chile and the socialist President Salvador Allende, with the economic warfare ordered by U.S. President Richard Nixon, was overthrown by the armed forces and national police.]]> 2018-04-24 14:53:03 UTC https://padlet.com/kdod2759/z0tdrzkkviwa/wish/254863618 pbra9603 https://padlet.com/kdod2759/z0tdrzkkviwa/wish/254864768 The first agreements, known as SALT I and SALT II, were signed by the United States and the USSR in 1972 and 1979 respectively, and were intended to restrain the arms race in strategic ballistic missiles armed with nuclear weapons.

]]> 2018-04-24 14:55:01 UTC https://padlet.com/kdod2759/z0tdrzkkviwa/wish/254864768 mgri7088 https://padlet.com/kdod2759/z0tdrzkkviwa/wish/254868690 President Dwight Eisenhower announced the Eisenhower Doctrine in January 1957, and Congress approved of it in March the same year. President Eisenhower believed that, as a result of the Suez conflict, a power vacuum had formed in the middle East due to the loss of prestige of Great Britain and France. 

]]> 2018-04-24 15:01:41 UTC https://padlet.com/kdod2759/z0tdrzkkviwa/wish/254868690 pbra9603 https://padlet.com/kdod2759/z0tdrzkkviwa/wish/254868951 The Vietnam War was a conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from November 1st, 1955 to April 30th, 1975. It was officially fought between North Vietnam and the government of South Vietnam. The North Vietnamese army was supported by the Soviet Union, China and other communist allies, and the South Vietnamese army was supported by the United States, South Korea, Australia, Thailand and other anti-communist allies. The war is therefore considered a Cold War-era proxy war.]]> 2018-04-24 15:02:05 UTC https://padlet.com/kdod2759/z0tdrzkkviwa/wish/254868951 jmar7119 https://padlet.com/kdod2759/z0tdrzkkviwa/wish/255252088 This was an invasion of Egypt in late 1956 by Israel, followed by the United Kingdom and France. The aims were to regain Western control of the Suez Canal and to remove Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, who had just nationalized the canal. It is a important to the U.S. because it is an international navigation canal linking between the Mediterranean sea at Port said and the red sea at Suez.The unique geographical position of the Suez Canal makes it of special .]]> 2018-04-25 14:29:11 UTC https://padlet.com/kdod2759/z0tdrzkkviwa/wish/255252088 jmar7119 https://padlet.com/kdod2759/z0tdrzkkviwa/wish/255257758 The Hungarian Revolution of 1956 or the Hungarian Uprising of 1956 was a nationwide revolt against the communist government of the Hungarian People's Republic and its Soviet-imposed policies, lasting from 23 October until 10 November 1956. Inaction on the part of the United States angered and frustrated many Hungarians. Voice of America radio broadcasts and speeches by President Dwight D, Eisenhower and Secretary of State John Foster Dullies had recently suggested that the United States supported the “liberation” of “captive peoples” in communist nations. Yet, as Soviet tanks bore down on the protesters, the United States did nothing beyond issuing public statements of sympathy for their plight.]]> 2018-04-25 14:39:24 UTC https://padlet.com/kdod2759/z0tdrzkkviwa/wish/255257758 kdod2759 https://padlet.com/kdod2759/z0tdrzkkviwa/wish/255259525 The 1953 Iranian Coup D'etat was an overthrowing event of the democratically elected prime minister Mohammad Mosaddegh. The goal of this was to strengthen the monarchical rule of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. This operation was facilitated by the United Kingdom and The United States. Between August 15th & 19th 1953, this operation happened in Tehran, Iran. This was a successful overthrow of the prime minister and there was between 200 and 300 people killed as a result of this. ]]> 2018-04-25 14:42:23 UTC https://padlet.com/kdod2759/z0tdrzkkviwa/wish/255259525 jmar7119 https://padlet.com/kdod2759/z0tdrzkkviwa/wish/255267777 A group of scientists led by Edward Teller supported its development. They made  approaches to the military and the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy. In 1950, President Harry S. Truman announced work on the hydrogen bomb was to continue. A prime example of brinkmanship during the Cold War was the Cuban Missile Crisis. The US and the USSR, each armed with nuclear weapons, and both practiced brinkmanship during this conflict.The United States detonated the world's first thermonuclear weapon, the hydrogen bomb, on Eniwetok atoll in the Pacific. The test gave the United States a short-lived advantage in the nuclear arms race with the Soviet Union.]]> 2018-04-25 14:55:41 UTC https://padlet.com/kdod2759/z0tdrzkkviwa/wish/255267777 jmar7119 https://padlet.com/kdod2759/z0tdrzkkviwa/wish/255271963 The 1960 U-2 incident occurred on 1 May 1960, during the presidency of Eisenhower and the premiership of Nikita Khrushchev when a United States U-2 spy plane was shot down while in Soviet airspace. The aircraft, flown by pilot Francis Gray Powers was performing photographic  aerial reconnaissance  when it was hit  and crashed . Powers parachuted safely and was captured. Initially the United States government tried to cover up the plane's purpose and mission, but was forced to admit its military nature when the Soviet government came forward with the captured pilot and remains of the U-2 including spying technology that had survived the crash as well as photos of military bases in the Soviet Union taken by the aircraft.

]]> 2018-04-25 15:02:09 UTC https://padlet.com/kdod2759/z0tdrzkkviwa/wish/255271963 kdod2759 https://padlet.com/kdod2759/z0tdrzkkviwa/wish/255277645 The 1954 Guatemalan Coup D'etat was a covert operation carried out by the US Central Intelligence Agency that removed the democratically elected Guatemalan president Jacobo Arbenz and ended the Guatemala revolution that lasted from 1944-1954. This occured in Guatemala and lasted 9 days from June 18-27 1954. This ended the Guatemalan Revolution and also caused the Military Junta to assume their power. The US did not like anything about the Guatemalan Revolution, and saw it to be somewhat "communist" in the way it was ran and what it did. ]]> 2018-04-25 15:11:39 UTC https://padlet.com/kdod2759/z0tdrzkkviwa/wish/255277645 kdod2759 https://padlet.com/kdod2759/z0tdrzkkviwa/wish/255285771 Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were US citizens who spied for the Soviet Union and were tried, convicted and killed by the US Government. The US claimed that the Resenbergs were stealing nuclear weapon designs and sending them to the Soviet Union, and the US was the only country to be using nuclear weapons at this specific time. Also, the Rosenbergs were accused by the US for providing top-secret information about radar, sonar, and jet propulsion engines to the Soviet Union. Both of the Rosenbergs were executed in the United States on June 19, 1953, at ages 37 and 35 years old. ]]> 2018-04-25 15:25:10 UTC https://padlet.com/kdod2759/z0tdrzkkviwa/wish/255285771 kdod2759 https://padlet.com/kdod2759/z0tdrzkkviwa/wish/256035163 Alger Hiss (1904–1996) was a high-ranking official in the State Department of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Hiss participated in the critical Yalta Conference at the end of World War II and also played an important role in helping to organize the United Nations. In one of the most notorious espionage trials of the 20th century, he was later accused of being a Soviet spy. Also, he was accused by Chambers for being a part of the communist party as well as a Soviet Spy.]]> 2018-04-27 14:40:38 UTC https://padlet.com/kdod2759/z0tdrzkkviwa/wish/256035163 mgri7088 https://padlet.com/kdod2759/z0tdrzkkviwa/wish/256866627 The Korean War was between north and south Korea. The war began june 25 1950. When North Korea invaded South Korea following series of clashes along the border. The United States came to the aid of south Korea. ]]> 2018-05-01 14:23:57 UTC https://padlet.com/kdod2759/z0tdrzkkviwa/wish/256866627