https://padlet.com/arubel1/znvxataly5u3 en-us 2020-03-04 18:40:16 UTC 2020-03-05 18:47:15 UTC hello@padlet.com arubel1 https://padlet.com/arubel1/znvxataly5u3/wish/454571082 Under the agreement, countries promised that their central banks would maintain fixed exchange rates between their currencies and the dollar.
World Bank: an international organization dedicated to providing financing, advice, and research to developing nations to aid their economic advancement.
International Monetary Fund: an organization of 189 countries, working to secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty around the world.]]> 2020-03-04 18:44:02 UTC https://padlet.com/arubel1/znvxataly5u3/wish/454571082 arubel1 https://padlet.com/arubel1/znvxataly5u3/wish/455265518 The United Nations is an intergovernmental organization that aims to maintain international peace and security.
General Assembly: the main deliberative, policy-making, and representative organ of the United Nations.
Security Council: One of six principal organs of the UN, charged with ensuring the maintenance of international peace and security. Their job to determine when and where a UN peace operation should be deployed.


]]> 2020-03-05 18:05:47 UTC https://padlet.com/arubel1/znvxataly5u3/wish/455265518 arubel1 https://padlet.com/arubel1/znvxataly5u3/wish/455271946 Winston Churchill's message that the United States and Great Britain needed to confront an increasingly aggressive Soviet Union, basically referring to the fact that Eastern Europe was more or less controlled by the Soviet Union.
Iron Curtain: the imaginary boundary dividing Europe into two separate areas from the end of WWII (1945) until the end of the Cold War (1991).

]]> 2020-03-05 18:13:02 UTC https://padlet.com/arubel1/znvxataly5u3/wish/455271946 arubel1 https://padlet.com/arubel1/znvxataly5u3/wish/455276673 Established that the United States would provide political, military and economic assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces.
First used in Turkey and Greece]]> 2020-03-05 18:18:27 UTC https://padlet.com/arubel1/znvxataly5u3/wish/455276673 arubel1 https://padlet.com/arubel1/znvxataly5u3/wish/455280471 A U.S. program providing aid to Western Europe of postwar. It's way of containment was taking knowledge that it was all completely humanitarian. ]]> 2020-03-05 18:22:57 UTC https://padlet.com/arubel1/znvxataly5u3/wish/455280471 arubel1 https://padlet.com/arubel1/znvxataly5u3/wish/455284704 In response to the Soviet blockage of land routes into West Berlin, the United States begins a massive airlift of food, water, and medicine to the citizens besieged city. 
Where Containment was seen as a post WWII strategic policy of the Western allies designed to prevent the expansion of Soviet communism...the airlift was their response to Soviet closure of ground routes to Western-occupied parts of Berlin.
Lasting 11 months. ]]> 2020-03-05 18:27:40 UTC https://padlet.com/arubel1/znvxataly5u3/wish/455284704 arubel1 https://padlet.com/arubel1/znvxataly5u3/wish/455289360 Created by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union. Being the first peacetime military alliance the United States entered into outside of the Western Hemisphere.
Collective Security: the cooperation of several countries in an alliance to strengthen the security of each ]]> 2020-03-05 18:32:45 UTC https://padlet.com/arubel1/znvxataly5u3/wish/455289360 arubel1 https://padlet.com/arubel1/znvxataly5u3/wish/455293674 Klaus Fuchs, a German-born physicist, helped the United States build its first atomic bombs, and was arrested for passing nuclear secrets to the Soviets. 
When the United States detonated two atomic bombs over the Japanese cities, intentions were to force Japan to surrender, thus avoiding a long war in the Pacific. However, this action had the added potential of pressurizing the USSR into negotiating over Eastern Europe and Germany. ]]> 2020-03-05 18:37:39 UTC https://padlet.com/arubel1/znvxataly5u3/wish/455293674 arubel1 https://padlet.com/arubel1/znvxataly5u3/wish/455298553 A political and military alliance between the Soviet Union and several Eastern European countries.
It was created in reaction to the integration of West Germany into NATO, but also considered to have been motivated by Soviet desires to maintain control over military forces in Central and Eastern Europe.
Soviet Union controlled most of the nations involvement. ]]> 2020-03-05 18:43:34 UTC https://padlet.com/arubel1/znvxataly5u3/wish/455298553