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Prevents all propaganda for Communism
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Alerted of Soviet Spies
Alerted Canadians of the threat of Soviet Communism
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Soviets Blocked Supply Lines to West Berlin
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Defence Pact between 12 countries
The soviets then made the Warsaw Pact
Belgium,Canada,Denmark,France,Iceland,Italy,Luxemberg,Netherlands,Norway,Portgual,UK,USA -
Communist North attacked Capitalist South.
UN stepped in and south was assured peace
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Egypt Seals control of canal
Un steps in and watches withdrawl of soldiers
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Distant early warning Line alerted NORAD of an incoming warhead or missile. Then NORAD would have to time to make a decision and act on it
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Sputnik launched by a base capable of launching a nuclear missle
Russians first one in space -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eWuZtk8uPP0Supersonic Jet, Lots of money invested, Was cancelled in 1959 costing 14000 jobs, the people were very mad
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Diefenbaker ordered bomarc anti missiles from the USA, when they found out that they had nuclear warheads they declined, when pearson came in to power he decided to accept nuclear power in to canada. When the liberal trudeau came in to power they with drew from a nuclear threat
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Soviets had built missile site in Cuba, Cuba is very close to the US so this posed a very large threat. The US made a barrier around cuba with ships to prevent the Soviet cargo ships from crossing. This worked and the missile threat was avoided http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5ZzL9KsyPY
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The americans in the vietnam war had a weak amount of recruits coming in to the military as the general public did not suppourt this mission. So the Us implanted mandatory conscription to a selected people. Some people avoided this by leaving the US and coming in to Canada
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Canada faced the soviets in a 8 game series. The canada team consisted of NHL while the soviets had their team of KHL players. No one from either country thought there team could lose. The series was tied 3-3 going in to the final game when paul henderson score the final goal
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The wall that had divided berlin from communist to capitlist was broke down. The had a huge significance as the fall of communism
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The 15 countries anounnced their independance from the soviet union and created their own commonwealth of independant states Mainly because of the many radical moves president Mikhail Gorbachev had done. The west was very pleased
