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NORAD
A defence relationship between Canada and the US at the end of the Cold War. As a binational command for air defense against the Soviet bomber threat. -
Espionage (e.g. Igor Gouzenko)
Russian cipher clerk named Igor Gouzenko fled the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa with 109 documents proving the existence of a Soviet spy ring in Canada. His revelations reverberated throughout the world and helped to ignite the Cold War. -
Berlin Airlift
First international crises of the cold war. The Soviet Union took control of the Eastern half of Germany, the Western half was divided amongst the US, Great Britain, and France. Berlin was sitting in the middle and was divided into 4 parts, one half being Soviet controlled, and the rest divided amongst the others. A four-power provisional government, called the Allied Control Council, was installed in -
Korean War
Initial test for the newly formed United Nations, which had been created in an attempt to prevent a future world war from happening, through the use of negotiations, dialogue, and, if necessary, the use of force as supplied by the Armed Forces of the member nations. Canadians were found in many parts of the war -
Colombo Plan
Provides economic aid to areas of south and southeast Asia. Headquarters are in Colombo, Sri Lanka. Member countries are Afghanistan, Australia, Bangla Desh, Bhutan, Cambodia, Canada, Fiji, India, Indonesia, Iran, Japan, Laos, Malaysia, Maldives, Myanmar, Nepal, New Zealand, Pakistan, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, Sri Lanka, Thailand, United Kingdom, and USA. -
Peacekeeping Missions
Canada's role as a peacekeeper throughout the world began in the 50's when Lester Pearson, Canada's ambassador to the UN suggested that the organization might create a peace keeping force. This force could be injected into a war or conflict area in order to maintain a ceasefire while the respective combatants negotiated an alternative solution to fighting. -
Suez Crisis
The canal was taken over by the Egyptian President, Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser, He wanted money to make a dam so he was charging proplr to go through. But many of the other nations around Egypt were mad -
Hungarian Revolution
Russians came in to liberate Hungary from the Nazis, but when the Communists took over in 1949, liberation became domination and the Hungarian government was totally subordinate to Soviet control. There was freedom in the air on October 23, 1956 when Hungarian students began demonstrating against the Communist government. -
Berlin Wall
Rise- . It effectively divided the city in half. Within days, workers cemented concrete blocks into a low wall through the city.
Fall- In the debate over who deserves credit for causing the Berlin Wall to collapse on the night of November 9, 1989, many names come to mind, both great and small.
Wages were low for the people and they could no longer afford the cold war -
Cuban Missile Crisis
Was the closest the world ever came to nuclear war. The United States armed forces were at their highest state of readiness ever and Soviet field commanders in Cuba were prepared to use battlefield nuclear weapons to defend the island if it was invaded. Luckily, thanks to the bravery of two men, President John F. Kennedy and Premier Nikita Khrushchev, war was averted. -
SALT Agreement
agreement on two documents: the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (ABM Treaty) and the Interim Agreement on the Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms. Both were signed on May 26, 1972. -
Canada-USSR Summit Series
When Paul Henderson scored the 6-5 goal at 19:26 of the final period. For a moment, our world stood still, and then as the red light flickered behind Vladislav Tretiak, our hearts filled with joy, and relief. -
Afghanistain 1980's
Early in 1980, the Security Council met to consider a response to the Soviet intervention, but a draft resolution condemning it was not passed, due to the negative vote of the USSR. -
Gorbachev Revolution
The profound changes that occurred in the Soviet Union during the second half of the 1980s were not, it goes without saying, simply the work of one man. However, reform from below, not to speak of revolution in a more conventional sense of the term, was infeasible -
Olympic Politics Boycott
The summer of 1980 the decided to boycott the Olympic games in Moscow.The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, set against the cold-war atmosphere and a decline in US hegemony, was the external
force that drove the United States and her allies in search of strategies that would force a withdrawal
of Soviet troops. -
US Star Wars
Proposed U.S. strategic defensive system against potential nuclear attacks—as originally conceived, from the Soviet Union. The SDI was first proposed by President Ronald Reagan in a nationwide television address on March 23, 1983 -
Nicaragua
Nicaragua gained independence from Spain in 1821, briefly becoming a part of the Mexican Empire and then a member of a federation of independent Central American provinces. In 1838, Nicaragua became an independent republic. In 1909 the United States provided political support to Conservative-led forces rebelling against President Zelaya and intervened militarily to protect American lives and property.
