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Start of the First Gulf War
U.S. President George H. W. Bush deployed American forces into Saudi Arabia, and urged other countries to send their own forces to the scene. An array of nations joined the coalition. The majority of the military forces in the coalition were from the United States, Saudi Arabia, the United Kingdom Egypt and Canada -
Start of the First Gulf War Part 2
Canada has participated in overseas peace affairs with the UN many times. However, not all of Canada's international military efforts have been peacekeeping missions. Canada has also responded against aggressive nations who would dismiss basic human rights to others. -
Start of the Frist Gulf War Part 3
The initial conflict to expel Iraqi troops from Kuwait began with an aerial bombardment Operation Desert Storm and air war phase begins, 3 am on Jan. 17, 1991. This was followed by a ground assault on 23 February. This was a decisive victory for the coalition forces, who liberated Kuwait and advanced into Iraqi territory. -
End of the First Gulf War
The war ended February 28 1991 More than 4,000 Canadian Forces served in war. After War ended, Canadian troops remained in the region as part of the UN peacekeeping mission along the Iraq-Kuwait border, . On the water, Canadian warships participated in Multinational Interception Force operations and helped to enforce the economic sanctions imposed against Iraq after the Gulf War. -
Fall of the USSR
The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics was dissolved on December 25, 1991. This left all fifteen republics of the Soviet Union as independent states. The dissolution of the world's largest communist country also marked an end to the Cold War. -
Fall of the USSR
This was good for Canada because Canada and its people were in between two superpowers the Untied States of American and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. The Canadians thought that the soviets would fly over Canada and bomb the untied states. So this is why the Canadians set up the Distant Early Warning Line. The (DEW) was a system of radar stations in the far northern of Canada. It was set up to detect incoming Soviet bombers during the Cold War, and provide early warning of a land base -
Rwanda war ( Hutus and Tutsis )
Once, Hutus and Tutsis lived in harmony in Rwanda. About 600 years ago, Tutsis, a tall, warrior people, though much smaller in number, they conquered the Hutus, who agreed to raise crops for them in return for protection. -
Rwanda war ( Hutus and Tutsis ) Part 2
When Belgium ruled Rwanda, after taking it from Germany in 1916 the two groups lived as one, speaking the same language and intermarrying. The monarchy was dissolved and Belgian troops withdrawn. Two new countries emerged in 1962 Rwanda, dominated by the Hutus, and Burundi by the Tutsis -
Rwanada war ( Hutus and Tutsis ) Part 3
On April 6, 1994, the Hutu president of Rwanda was assassinated when his plane was shot down. This was the begin of thousands of killing of Tutsis by Hutu militias,
Mass murder of an estimated 800,000 people nation of Rwanda. Over 100 days over 500,000 people were killed, after the genocide and the Tutsis regaining control, about two million Hutus fled to Tanzania. Canada led by Romeo Dallaire and the UN went in to Rwanda to keep the peace with the Tutsis and the Hutus. -
Nunavut
The map of Canada had a new territory on April 1 1999 for the first time since 1949 when Newfound land joined confederation. On April 1999 on that day the Northwest Territories divided and the eastern territory became Nunavut. The Capulet of the Nunavut is Iqaluit. Nunavut is both the least populous and the largest in area of the provinces and territories of Canada it has a population of 31,906,mostly Inuit people. -
Nunavut Part 2
To this day the ten provinces are Alberta, British Columbia, Manitoba, New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Labrador, Nova Scotia, Ontario, Prince Edward Island, Quebec, and Saskatchewan. The three territories are Northwest Territories, Yukon and Nunavut -
9/11
plane 2 hitting towner 2 On Tuesday morning September 11, 2001,19 terrorists from the Islamist militant hijacked four passenger jets. The hijackers piloted two of those planes, American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175, into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center complex in New York City; both towers collapsed within two hours. -
9/11 Part 2
The hijackers also intentionally crashed American Airlines Flight 77 into the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, and intended to pilot the fourth hijacked jet, United Airlines Flight 93, into a target in Washington, D.C.; however, the plane crashed, because the passengers attempted to take control of the jet from the hijackers. .2996 people died in all of the attack -
9/11 Part 3
The people of Canada offered the American people comfort by opening their homes and hearts during 911. As airspace over our two countries was shut down, FAA orders all planes out of the air. American and Canadian air traffic controllers face a difficult situation how to safely re-route and land 6,500 planes carrying close to a million people in seventeen Canadian airports from coast to coast. The small city of Gander Newfoundland, population 9,600, with no warning receiver 6,600 passengers.
