https://padlet.com/maryanncox28/z6ivh2w4gglx Origins, Major Events, US Domestic Policies en-us 2018-04-09 14:10:47 UTC 2018-04-16 14:22:55 UTC hello@padlet.com maryanncox28 https://padlet.com/maryanncox28/z6ivh2w4gglx/wish/250710322 -Conflicting ideologies are at the center of the Cold War conflict.]]> 2018-04-11 13:50:48 UTC https://padlet.com/maryanncox28/z6ivh2w4gglx/wish/250710322 maryanncox28 https://padlet.com/maryanncox28/z6ivh2w4gglx/wish/250710814 -Yalta Summit meeting of the Big Three, which is often said to mark the highest point in international cooperation between the three nations 
-Postwar issues were discussed, primarily the division of Germany, though specifications of war reparations were left to be decided at the next meeting
-Free, democratic elections for countries liberated from the Nazis were agreed upon as were the borders of Poland
-The decision at Yalta also sanctioned the creation of the UN and it was set that Russia would join the war in the Pacific following the defeat of Germany.]]> 2018-04-11 13:51:36 UTC https://padlet.com/maryanncox28/z6ivh2w4gglx/wish/250710814 maryanncox28 https://padlet.com/maryanncox28/z6ivh2w4gglx/wish/250711273 2018-04-11 13:52:19 UTC https://padlet.com/maryanncox28/z6ivh2w4gglx/wish/250711273 maryanncox28 https://padlet.com/maryanncox28/z6ivh2w4gglx/wish/250712060 -standard for American Cold War policy was set by the Truman Doctrine in 1947. 
-stressed the dangerous expansionism of the USSR and pledged support for "free peoples" around the world and those who were struggling against communism. 
-prompted by the British withdrawal of forces in Greece and Turkey 
-aimed at the containment of Communism even through, to some extent, military means.

Marshall Plan:
-a way to restore capitalism in Europe by providing dollar loans to non-communist states.
-helped prevent a post-war depression as well as ensuring American dominance in the European economic sector
-Restoring economic stability was seen as a key way of containing Communism 
-part of the thinking was that states prosperous under a free market system were unlikely to view Communism as an attractive alternative.]]> 2018-04-11 13:53:34 UTC https://padlet.com/maryanncox28/z6ivh2w4gglx/wish/250712060 maryanncox28 https://padlet.com/maryanncox28/z6ivh2w4gglx/wish/250712277 It lasted for more than a year and carried more than 2.3 million tons of cargo into West Berlin due to the blockade by Russia.]]> 2018-04-11 13:53:55 UTC https://padlet.com/maryanncox28/z6ivh2w4gglx/wish/250712277 maryanncox28 https://padlet.com/maryanncox28/z6ivh2w4gglx/wish/250714268 military and political alliance formed to protect and defend Western Europe from Soviet attack]]> 2018-04-11 13:57:07 UTC https://padlet.com/maryanncox28/z6ivh2w4gglx/wish/250714268 maryanncox28 https://padlet.com/maryanncox28/z6ivh2w4gglx/wish/250718282 Became president when FDR died; gave the order to drop the atomic bomb.]]> 2018-04-11 14:04:09 UTC https://padlet.com/maryanncox28/z6ivh2w4gglx/wish/250718282 maryanncox28 https://padlet.com/maryanncox28/z6ivh2w4gglx/wish/250718333 amous WW2 General. President 1953 - 1960. Known for ending korean war, making interstate high system, "Modern Republican"]]> 2018-04-11 14:04:13 UTC https://padlet.com/maryanncox28/z6ivh2w4gglx/wish/250718333 maryanncox28 https://padlet.com/maryanncox28/z6ivh2w4gglx/wish/250718393 President during the Cuban Missile Crisis; limited military involvement in vietnam]]> 2018-04-11 14:04:18 UTC https://padlet.com/maryanncox28/z6ivh2w4gglx/wish/250718393 maryanncox28 https://padlet.com/maryanncox28/z6ivh2w4gglx/wish/250718460 US President; He promised peace with honor in Vietnam which means withdrawing American soldiers from South Vietnam; forced to resign after Watergate scandal; tapes revealed he was involved]]> 2018-04-11 14:04:25 UTC https://padlet.com/maryanncox28/z6ivh2w4gglx/wish/250718460 maryanncox28 https://padlet.com/maryanncox28/z6ivh2w4gglx/wish/250718489 Created the Department of Energy and the Depatment of Education. He was criticized for his return of the Panama Canal Zone, and because of the Soviet war in Afghanistan, he enacted an embargo on grain shipments to USSR and boycotted the 1980 Olympics in Moscow and his last year in office was marked by the takeover of the American embassy in Iran, fuel shortages, and the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan, which caused him to lose to Ronald Regan in the next election.]]> 2018-04-11 14:04:27 UTC https://padlet.com/maryanncox28/z6ivh2w4gglx/wish/250718489 maryanncox28 https://padlet.com/maryanncox28/z6ivh2w4gglx/wish/250719158 Conflict that began with North Korea's invasion of South Korea and came to involve the United Nations (primarily the United States) allying with South Korea and the People's Republic of China allying with North Korea.]]> 2018-04-11 14:05:32 UTC https://padlet.com/maryanncox28/z6ivh2w4gglx/wish/250719158 maryanncox28 https://padlet.com/maryanncox28/z6ivh2w4gglx/wish/250719609 United States policy using military, economic, and diplomatic strategies to stall the spread of communism and to enhance America's security and influence abroad nations- used to secure the U.S. as the leading role in the world affairs- became the linchpin foreign policy]]> 2018-04-11 14:06:16 UTC https://padlet.com/maryanncox28/z6ivh2w4gglx/wish/250719609 maryanncox28 https://padlet.com/maryanncox28/z6ivh2w4gglx/wish/250720070 A conflict, starting in 1954 and ending in 1975, between South Vietnam (later aided by 
the U.S., South Korea, Australia, the Philippines, Thailand, and New Zealand) and the Vietcong and North 
Vietnam]]> 2018-04-11 14:06:58 UTC https://padlet.com/maryanncox28/z6ivh2w4gglx/wish/250720070 maryanncox28 https://padlet.com/maryanncox28/z6ivh2w4gglx/wish/250720734 Gorbachev announced Soviet withdrawal of power from all of Eastern Europe, including Berlin (wall torn down, free movement, &c.)]]> 2018-04-11 14:08:04 UTC https://padlet.com/maryanncox28/z6ivh2w4gglx/wish/250720734 maryanncox28 https://padlet.com/maryanncox28/z6ivh2w4gglx/wish/250725389 -American Expeditionary Force Siberia (AEF Siberia) was a United States Army force that was involved in the Russian Civil War in Vladivostok, Russian Empire, during the end of World War I after the October Revolution, from 1918 to 1920.
-AEF Siberia was part of the larger Allied North Russia Intervention.]]> 2018-04-11 14:15:27 UTC https://padlet.com/maryanncox28/z6ivh2w4gglx/wish/250725389