https://padlet.com/27916613/z99xwce8q3mztz53 en-us 2022-04-29 20:32:18 UTC 2025-11-01 06:30:11 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f976.png 27916613 https://padlet.com/27916613/z99xwce8q3mztz53/wish/2172078670 -failed air raid mission led by the United States against Cuba
-approx. 1,400 Cuban exiles were sent back into Cuba to overthrow Fidel Castro and the communist government
-the CIA used painted-over WWII bomber planes for the air strike, which were later discovered and the exiles were captured by the Cuban government]]> 2022-05-05 21:12:58 UTC https://padlet.com/27916613/z99xwce8q3mztz53/wish/2172078670 27916613 https://padlet.com/27916613/z99xwce8q3mztz53/wish/2172086658 - an American spy plane captures images of Soviet missiles being built and placed in Cuba 
- after the discovery of the missiles, President Kennedy and Soviet leader, Nikita Khrushchev met and decided not to engage in nuclear war
- the Soviet Union agrees to dismantle the weapons sites, as long as the U.S. promises to not invade Cuba]]> 2022-05-05 21:22:34 UTC https://padlet.com/27916613/z99xwce8q3mztz53/wish/2172086658 27916613 https://padlet.com/27916613/z99xwce8q3mztz53/wish/2172225923 - October 4, 1957: the Soviet Union launches Sputnik 1 into space, making it the first Earth-orbiting satellite
- January 31, 1958: the U.S. launches Explorer into orbit, discovers the Van Allen radiation belt
- August 2, 1959: US launches Explorer 6, which takes the first pictures of Earth from space
-December 21, 1968: Apollo 8 spaceship the the first human-crewed ship to reach the moon
- July 15, 1975: tensions between the U.S. and the Soviet Union die down, and the Apollo-Soyuz mission launches. th two flight commanders from each country shake hands before the launch, symbolizing the end of the space race]]> 2022-05-06 00:41:20 UTC https://padlet.com/27916613/z99xwce8q3mztz53/wish/2172225923 27916613 https://padlet.com/27916613/z99xwce8q3mztz53/wish/2172239935 - during the 1960's, tensions between the Soviet Union and the United States began to settle 
- both parties signed anti-nuclear war agreements as well as agreeing to reduce the number of nuclear arms produced and possessed by each country

]]> 2022-05-06 00:58:39 UTC https://padlet.com/27916613/z99xwce8q3mztz53/wish/2172239935 27916613 https://padlet.com/27916613/z99xwce8q3mztz53/wish/2172323553 - April 1954: battle at Dien Bien Phu ends French rule over French Indochina
- Northern Vietnamese Army: planned to launch guerrilla attacks against the southern army
- President Kennedy sends troops to Vietnam for secret operations against the Viet Cong
- U.S. forces use Agent Orange and Napalm to kill off vegetation that would provide cover for Viet Cong soldiers 
- heavy anti-war protests in America throughout the 1970's
- Ends with the fall of Saigon and the unification of Vietnam. Becomes the Socialist Republic of Vietnam]]> 2022-05-06 02:34:35 UTC https://padlet.com/27916613/z99xwce8q3mztz53/wish/2172323553 27916613 https://padlet.com/27916613/z99xwce8q3mztz53/wish/2172338259 - Foreign policy used by the United States to fight the Soviet Union during the Cold War
- Formulated by Foreign Service Officer George F. Kennan, containment kept an eye on Soviet expansion
- ]]> 2022-05-06 02:52:37 UTC https://padlet.com/27916613/z99xwce8q3mztz53/wish/2172338259 27916613 https://padlet.com/27916613/z99xwce8q3mztz53/wish/2172341971 - President Harry S. Truman sends economic and military aid to Greece and Turkey 
- Greece was being threatened by communism 
- Turkey was facing the threat of Soviet expansion into the Mediterranean 

]]> 2022-05-06 02:57:17 UTC https://padlet.com/27916613/z99xwce8q3mztz53/wish/2172341971 27916613 https://padlet.com/27916613/z99xwce8q3mztz53/wish/2172346629 - a program that was designed to help recover the economies of several western and southern European countries
- it served to create stability after WWII]]> 2022-05-06 03:02:57 UTC https://padlet.com/27916613/z99xwce8q3mztz53/wish/2172346629 27916613 https://padlet.com/27916613/z99xwce8q3mztz53/wish/2172351195 - the Soviet Union blocks off allied access to railways, roads, and canals 
- the Soviet Union later occupies East Berlin ]]> 2022-05-06 03:09:20 UTC https://padlet.com/27916613/z99xwce8q3mztz53/wish/2172351195 27916613 https://padlet.com/27916613/z99xwce8q3mztz53/wish/2172361950 - a "competition" between the United States and the Soviet Union to see who could produce and acquire the most nuclear weapons
- began after the Soviet Union tested their own atomic bomb after hearing the new that the United States had created one
- tensions arose between the two nations, beginning the Cold War]]> 2022-05-06 03:24:54 UTC https://padlet.com/27916613/z99xwce8q3mztz53/wish/2172361950 27916613 https://padlet.com/27916613/z99xwce8q3mztz53/wish/2172370806 - North Korea invades South Korea
- the U.S. entered the war siding with South Korea to fight against international communism 
- the war ends in an armistice, with the Korean peninsula still being divided today]]> 2022-05-06 03:38:33 UTC https://padlet.com/27916613/z99xwce8q3mztz53/wish/2172370806 27916613 https://padlet.com/27916613/z99xwce8q3mztz53/wish/2173206945 - Built in 1961 by the German Democratic Republic
- Served to prevent citizens of East Berlin (which was controlled by the Soviet Union) from escaping to the Western side

]]> 2022-05-06 17:12:31 UTC https://padlet.com/27916613/z99xwce8q3mztz53/wish/2173206945 27916613 https://padlet.com/27916613/z99xwce8q3mztz53/wish/2173318500 - after numerous anti-government protests in East Germany, many other European countries became democratized and the wall was torn down by the border guard as well as citizens of Berlin]]> 2022-05-06 18:39:47 UTC https://padlet.com/27916613/z99xwce8q3mztz53/wish/2173318500 27916613 https://padlet.com/27916613/z99xwce8q3mztz53/wish/2173660393 - Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT)
- regulation of arms between the United States and the Soviet Union after the Arms Race
- SALT I: anti-ballistic missile treaty (ABM), interim agreement and protocol on limitation of strategic offensive weapons
- SALT II: set limits on the amount of strategic launchers, overall limits on over 2,400 different types of weapons on each side]]> 2022-05-07 05:26:00 UTC https://padlet.com/27916613/z99xwce8q3mztz53/wish/2173660393 27916613 https://padlet.com/27916613/z99xwce8q3mztz53/wish/2173663507 - began with the revolutions of 1989 in Western and Eastern Germany
- ended with the fall of the Berlin Wall]]> 2022-05-07 05:37:16 UTC https://padlet.com/27916613/z99xwce8q3mztz53/wish/2173663507