1945 to 1991 time line Niklas Erickson and Xavier Santos by Niklas Erickson https://padlet.com/niklase4/z6h9kfipyz3gn1od Made with the best of intentions en-us 2022-05-03 13:54:03 UTC 2022-05-06 14:41:57 UTC hello@padlet.com End of World WarII 1945 niklase4 https://padlet.com/niklase4/z6h9kfipyz3gn1od/wish/2168342043 japan surrenders to the allies and Hitler is dead.]]> 2022-05-03 13:54:44 UTC https://padlet.com/niklase4/z6h9kfipyz3gn1od/wish/2168342043 The Yalta Confrence 1945 niklase4 https://padlet.com/niklase4/z6h9kfipyz3gn1od/wish/2168351617 The three leaders of the allied powers got together and discussed how they would divide Germany in order to rebuild it, William Churchhill, Franklin Rosevelt, and Joseph Stalin.]]> 2022-05-03 14:00:06 UTC https://padlet.com/niklase4/z6h9kfipyz3gn1od/wish/2168351617 The Cold War Begins 1945 niklase4 https://padlet.com/niklase4/z6h9kfipyz3gn1od/wish/2168354343 Germany is split between east and west because Stalin refuses to give up his part. the USSR wants to make germany Communist]]> 2022-05-03 14:01:45 UTC https://padlet.com/niklase4/z6h9kfipyz3gn1od/wish/2168354343 The Iron Curtain 1945 niklase4 https://padlet.com/niklase4/z6h9kfipyz3gn1od/wish/2168358591 The iron curtain was a fake line between the communist(satellite countries) and the democratic countries.]]> 2022-05-03 14:04:09 UTC https://padlet.com/niklase4/z6h9kfipyz3gn1od/wish/2168358591 Marshal Plan 1948 niklase4 https://padlet.com/niklase4/z6h9kfipyz3gn1od/wish/2168362830 The Marshall plan was created by the US to help aid any countries affected by the war even the axis powers. in total, 13 billion dollars was given to countries. USSR denied the help.]]> 2022-05-03 14:06:29 UTC https://padlet.com/niklase4/z6h9kfipyz3gn1od/wish/2168362830 The US Response to Communism 1947 niklase4 https://padlet.com/niklase4/z6h9kfipyz3gn1od/wish/2168370926 the policy stated that communism needed to be contained and isolated, or else it would spread to neighboring countries.]]> 2022-05-03 14:11:14 UTC https://padlet.com/niklase4/z6h9kfipyz3gn1od/wish/2168370926 The domino theory 1945 niklase4 https://padlet.com/niklase4/z6h9kfipyz3gn1od/wish/2168378082 The theory that the fall of a noncommunist state to communism would precipitate the fall of noncommunist governments in neighboring states. ]]> 2022-05-03 14:15:14 UTC https://padlet.com/niklase4/z6h9kfipyz3gn1od/wish/2168378082 Truman Doctrine 1947 niklase4 https://padlet.com/niklase4/z6h9kfipyz3gn1od/wish/2168384045 Truman established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces. gave 400 million dollars to both Greece and Turkey.]]> 2022-05-03 14:18:23 UTC https://padlet.com/niklase4/z6h9kfipyz3gn1od/wish/2168384045 The UN was formed 1945 niklase4 https://padlet.com/niklase4/z6h9kfipyz3gn1od/wish/2168393045 An alliance to be able to achieve global peace and talk through conflict instead of fight. the first countries in it were France, the US, China, USSR, and the UK. after that 46 other countries joined in 1945 and there are a total of 193 members now.]]> 2022-05-03 14:23:24 UTC https://padlet.com/niklase4/z6h9kfipyz3gn1od/wish/2168393045 Berlin Blockade and Airlift 1948 niklase4 https://padlet.com/niklase4/z6h9kfipyz3gn1od/wish/2168401712 The Berlin Blockade happend when Stalin denied resources such as food and water to west Berlin to get people to join east Berlin instead of leaving. The US ended up airdropping supplies to West Berlin for 11 months before Stalin gave up.]]> 2022-05-03 14:28:19 UTC https://padlet.com/niklase4/z6h9kfipyz3gn1od/wish/2168401712 The Arms Race of 1949 niklase4 https://padlet.com/niklase4/z6h9kfipyz3gn1od/wish/2168405886 The arms race was between the US and The USSR competing to have bigger and better bombs and millitaries. ]]> 2022-05-03 14:29:54 UTC https://padlet.com/niklase4/z6h9kfipyz3gn1od/wish/2168405886 Chinese Civil War 1946-1949 niklase4 https://padlet.com/niklase4/z6h9kfipyz3gn1od/wish/2169931892 Before WWII china was fighting between Mao Zedong who was for communism and Chiang Kai-Shek who was for democracy. Once WWII started they stopped and banded together against Japan. after WWII they went back to fighting and Mao Zadgong won since the country had not been happy with democracy and he offered them land if they joined him.]]> 2022-05-04 13:41:55 UTC https://padlet.com/niklase4/z6h9kfipyz3gn1od/wish/2169931892 Korean War 1950-1953 niklase4 https://padlet.com/niklase4/z6h9kfipyz3gn1od/wish/2169940164 The Korean war happend because korea was split after WWII and north was communist and south was democratic so what ended up happening is north Korea wanted to take all of Korea and make it communist so they invaded south Korea untill the US joined in and helped south Korea untill they pushed back north Korea so much that china had to help north Korea and they ended in a stalemate with the border now being on the 38th paraell.]]> 2022-05-04 13:46:45 UTC https://padlet.com/niklase4/z6h9kfipyz3gn1od/wish/2169940164 Harry Truman retires and Dwight Eisenhower comes into office. 1953-1961 niklase4 https://padlet.com/niklase4/z6h9kfipyz3gn1od/wish/2169946878 In 1953 Harry Truman's first term comes to an end and he decides not to run again so Dwight Eisenhower comes into office. on Jan 20, 1953.
Eisenhower's cold war policies were 
The Soviet Union and the US both had the bombs powerful enough to completely destroy each other but because of that they do not use them also he wanted to make sure that countries did become communist and contain the spread.]]> 2022-05-04 13:50:41 UTC https://padlet.com/niklase4/z6h9kfipyz3gn1od/wish/2169946878 The Warsaw Pact niklase4 https://padlet.com/niklase4/z6h9kfipyz3gn1od/wish/2169962280 The Warsaw pact is the communist version of   NATO created by the USSR and , Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland and Romania joined.]]> 2022-05-04 13:56:59 UTC https://padlet.com/niklase4/z6h9kfipyz3gn1od/wish/2169962280 Veinna Summit 1961 niklase4 https://padlet.com/niklase4/z6h9kfipyz3gn1od/wish/2171476235 Khrushchev and JFK meet to discuss Berlin and nuclear build-up. it is said that Khrushchev did not respect Kennedy very much and talked over him a lot during the meeting due to Kennedy being in his 40s and the youngest US president.]]> 2022-05-05 13:59:57 UTC https://padlet.com/niklase4/z6h9kfipyz3gn1od/wish/2171476235 Berlin Wall 1961 niklase4 https://padlet.com/niklase4/z6h9kfipyz3gn1od/wish/2171480378 The soviet union decides to build a wall between east berlin and west berlin to keep the germans from going to democratic berlin.]]> 2022-05-05 14:02:14 UTC https://padlet.com/niklase4/z6h9kfipyz3gn1od/wish/2171480378 Bay of Pigs 1961 niklase4 https://padlet.com/niklase4/z6h9kfipyz3gn1od/wish/2171500688 In 1959 Fadel Castro made Cuba communist by kicking out the American government. in response to this, the US sent 1,400 Cuban exiles to the beaches of Cuba to assassinate Fadel Castro with promised air support from the US but the air support never came and the exiles were captured and the US ended up having to pay 50 million dollars of food and medical supplies to free the exiles.]]> 2022-05-05 14:13:43 UTC https://padlet.com/niklase4/z6h9kfipyz3gn1od/wish/2171500688 JFK's Speech in West Berlin. 1963 niklase4 https://padlet.com/niklase4/z6h9kfipyz3gn1od/wish/2171506223 In 1963 JFK went to west berlin to deliver a speech to the germans living there and he said "All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin and, therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words‚ Ich bin ein Berliner!]]> 2022-05-05 14:17:08 UTC https://padlet.com/niklase4/z6h9kfipyz3gn1od/wish/2171506223 Cuban Missile Crisis niklase4 https://padlet.com/niklase4/z6h9kfipyz3gn1od/wish/2171524476 in 1962 the US CIA got images of missile silo's being built in Cuba and to prevent the USSR from sending the missiles over to Cuba by ship we had American ships blockade/quarantine Cuba from soviet ships. the soviet union ended up going back with the bombs and ended up making a deal with the US for them to get rid of the missile silo's in Cuba if we got rid of the missiles in Turkey and we agreed]]> 2022-05-05 14:28:09 UTC https://padlet.com/niklase4/z6h9kfipyz3gn1od/wish/2171524476 John F. Kennedy assinated 1963 niklase4 https://padlet.com/niklase4/z6h9kfipyz3gn1od/wish/2171533102 on November 22, 1963, JFK was on his way to a lunch meeting while parading through Dallas texas when he was shot by a man named Lee Harvey who had lived in Russia and wanted to get rid of his American citizenship for soviet citizenship but was not allowed to so he moved back to the US and got a job at a library where he shot JFK from the window 3 times one hit JFK in the head 1 hit the car and 1 hit a CIA guard. Lyndon Johnson his vice president was sworn into office shortly after JFK was declared dead.]]> 2022-05-05 14:33:07 UTC https://padlet.com/niklase4/z6h9kfipyz3gn1od/wish/2171533102 Vietnam War 1965-1973 niklase4 https://padlet.com/niklase4/z6h9kfipyz3gn1od/wish/2171541549 in 1954 the communists kicked the french out of Vietnam and Vietnam is split into North Vietnam which is Communist-led by Ho Chi Min and South Vietnam which is democratic. up until 1965, the US had been giving South Vietnam money and supplies to fight North Vietnam until 1964 when President Lyndon Johnson the tonkin_Resolution passed by congress. we end up starting to lose quite bad since our military had never really fought in the jungle before as well as Vietnamese troops used guerrilla warfare against us. After Nixion was sworn into office he made a proposal called Vietnamization in 1969 to pull all American troops out of Vietnam and bring them back to the US. it is said when they got back to the US they were not very well appreciated people did not have good opinions about people that fought during the Vietnam war.]]> 2022-05-05 14:38:01 UTC https://padlet.com/niklase4/z6h9kfipyz3gn1od/wish/2171541549 Tonkin Resolution 1964 niklase4 https://padlet.com/niklase4/z6h9kfipyz3gn1od/wish/2171570573 The Tonkin resolution made by President Lyndon Johnson gave johnson the authority to send 550,00 US troops there. and not require authority from congress to make decisions on veitnam.]]> 2022-05-05 14:54:16 UTC https://padlet.com/niklase4/z6h9kfipyz3gn1od/wish/2171570573 Vietnamization 1969 niklase4 https://padlet.com/niklase4/z6h9kfipyz3gn1od/wish/2171575731 Once Nixon had been sworn into office he made Vietnamization which took our American troops out of vietnam and bring them back.]]> 2022-05-05 14:57:10 UTC https://padlet.com/niklase4/z6h9kfipyz3gn1od/wish/2171575731 REAGAN’S SPEECH-1987 niklase4 https://padlet.com/niklase4/z6h9kfipyz3gn1od/wish/2172908832 Ronald REAGAN CHALLENGED gorbachev “OPEN THIS GATE AND TEAR DOWN THIS WALL" . ]]> 2022-05-06 13:47:30 UTC https://padlet.com/niklase4/z6h9kfipyz3gn1od/wish/2172908832 Deng Xiaoping Economic reform -1978 niklase4 https://padlet.com/niklase4/z6h9kfipyz3gn1od/wish/2172913238 In 1878 Deng Xiaoping decided to pass a law to allow Chinese citizens and businesses to trade with the west and this ends up making people protest for more freedom.]]> 2022-05-06 13:50:20 UTC https://padlet.com/niklase4/z6h9kfipyz3gn1od/wish/2172913238 Margret Thatcher 1979-1990 niklase4 https://padlet.com/niklase4/z6h9kfipyz3gn1od/wish/2172917645 Margret Thatcher was prime minister of Great Britian from1979 to 1990 and some of the things she did are.
· Promotes free trade less gov't regulation of business
· Asserted UK's military  power
· Creates closer relations with the U.S   

]]> 2022-05-06 13:53:05 UTC https://padlet.com/niklase4/z6h9kfipyz3gn1od/wish/2172917645 Indira Gandhi 1966-1977 niklase4 https://padlet.com/niklase4/z6h9kfipyz3gn1od/wish/2172924848 India's first female prime minister and some of the things she did was.
  • Creates closer relations with relations
  • Develops nuclear program in India

]]> 2022-05-06 13:57:35 UTC https://padlet.com/niklase4/z6h9kfipyz3gn1od/wish/2172924848 Fall of the Berlin Wall-1989 niklase4 https://padlet.com/niklase4/z6h9kfipyz3gn1od/wish/2172948514 They decide to make a new gate for the berlin wall into austria to allow people to vacation into austria but then people would leave into west germanny and not come back so they took down the gate and people in east berlin started to protest and riot untill they finnally took down the wall in 1989.]]> 2022-05-06 14:12:33 UTC https://padlet.com/niklase4/z6h9kfipyz3gn1od/wish/2172948514 Mikhail Gorbachev comes to power-1985 niklase4 https://padlet.com/niklase4/z6h9kfipyz3gn1od/wish/2172967299 Gorbachev comes to power in 1985 and passes two laws called Perestroika which is the restructuring of the Soviet political and economic system, in an attempt to end the Era of Stagnation. he also passes the law called Glasnost which is when he allows people of the USSR and eastern Europe to freely talk about the government and communism with no punishment.]]> 2022-05-06 14:24:44 UTC https://padlet.com/niklase4/z6h9kfipyz3gn1od/wish/2172967299 Expansion of NATO-1980's niklase4 https://padlet.com/niklase4/z6h9kfipyz3gn1od/wish/2172969673 During the 1980's there where many countries to join Nato as well as many countries to leave the warsaw pact remove communism from their governmnet. Also many countries such as yugoslavia and Czechoslovakia after they turned to democracy.]]> 2022-05-06 14:26:07 UTC https://padlet.com/niklase4/z6h9kfipyz3gn1od/wish/2172969673 Tenamen square massacare niklase4 https://padlet.com/niklase4/z6h9kfipyz3gn1od/wish/2172975527 After china got some economic freedom from Deng Xiaoping they decided to protest and the government decided to send millitary action after 3000 protesters remained and about 1000 injured and 100 killed in tenamen square. ]]> 2022-05-06 14:30:03 UTC https://padlet.com/niklase4/z6h9kfipyz3gn1od/wish/2172975527 The Fall of the USSR and the End of the Cold War-1991 niklase4 https://padlet.com/niklase4/z6h9kfipyz3gn1od/wish/2172992696 With most countries leaving the warsaw pact and only leaving the USSR as well as them getting economic rights the government wanted to revert back to old communism but the citizens protested and Russia was turned democratic. and the first president elected was Nikolayevich Yeltsin]]> 2022-05-06 14:41:57 UTC https://padlet.com/niklase4/z6h9kfipyz3gn1od/wish/2172992696