Cold war map

Canada in the Cold war

By Myrmax

  • Quebec's Padlock Law

    Quebec's Padlock Law
    Created by Quebec's Premier Maurice Duplessis
    An attorney could close any building for a year if it had Soviet propaganda
    People could be imprisoned for a year without appeal

  • The man in the hood

    The man in the hood
    A breif oral history of Igor attempting to warn the worldIgor Gozenko worked in the Soviet Embassy to Canada
    He dected to Canada in 1945 and inform the west about the Soviet's plan to steal nuclear secrets and sleeper agents
    Began known as "the man in the mask" because he would wear a mask while in public to hide with he looked like

  • Creation of Isreal

    Creation of Isreal
    The U.N created the state of Isreal
    Shockenly the people living there prior didn't like this
    The U.S supported Isreal
    The Soivet Union supported the nieghbouring counties of Egypt, Iraq and Syria

  • The Berlin Blockade

    The Berlin Blockade
    Care to learn more about the blockade, click hereAn attempt to physical block off West Berlin
    The blockade failed due to airlifts
    The blockade created a lot of tension between the West and the East

  • NATO

    NATO
    NATO had 12 founding memebers
    By creating an united front the Soviet Union wouldn't want to attack
    The new Union also attacked as a Atomic deterrence

  • Korean War begins

    Korean War begins
    North Korean, supported by China, attacked South Korea
    The U.N came to save South Korea
    Only 16 countries, including Canada, came to help South Korea

  • Korean war ends

    Korean war ends
    There was many different roles for soldiers in the war25,000 Canadian men saw action, however only 406 died
    Canada stays in South Korea to help maintain the war ending truce

  • NORAD

    NORAD
    Originly stood for North American Air Defence, but now it is North American Aerospace Defence Command
    The Distant Early Warning Line was built in order to detect Soviet bombers
    It was built in the Arctic, mainly in Canada

  • Suez Canal crisis

    Suez Canal crisis
    The Suez Canal was an important waterway
    Egyptian leader General Nasser took control of the canal
    Isreal attacked Egypt, in reasponse the Soviet Union said they would help Egypt
    Canadian Prime Minister Lester. B. Pearson created the UNEF ( United Nation Emergecy Force) to resolve the problme and won a Nobel Peace Prize for it.

  • Launch of Sputnik

    Launch of Sputnik
    Humanity entering the space ageThe Soviet Union launchs Sputnik, earth's first manmade statilite
    The rocket that launched Sputnik could also bomb North America
    American's start to build intercontinental ballistic missiles
    Canada builds Alouette 1, the first satellite made by the country outside of USSR or the U.S.A

  • Avro Arrow

    Avro Arrow
    Canada's first supersonic planeThe Avro Arrow was a supersonic jet built in Canada
    It was highly expensive to build one of these jets
    Eventually the Avro Arrow was cancelled, costing Canada 14 000 jobs

  • Diefenbaker

    Diefenbaker
    The 13th Prime Minister of Canada
    Wouldn't allow any Nuclear warheads into Canada
    Planned to purchase Bomarc missiles, but wouldn't give them nuclear warheads
    His opposition eventually beat him the the elections and placed nuclear warheads into the Bomarc

  • The Cuban Missile Crisis

    The Cuban Missile Crisis
    The crisis put all of the world's leaders on edgeThe Soviet Union wanted nuclear missiles in Cuba
    This was problematic as Cuban based missiles would be able to easily hit the U.S.A
    American President-at-the-time John F. Kennedy built a naval blockade around Cuba
    The Soviet Union withdrawled their nuclear missiles from Cuba

  • The Draft Dodgers

    The Draft Dodgers
    Western powers wanted Canada to aid them in the Vietnam war
    Canada agreed to fight in the War if six near impossible prerequisites were achieved
    Canada never ended up going to war in Vietnam
    Many American's can to Canada to avoid being sent to Vietname or to be "Draft Dogders"

  • Canadian-Soviet Hockey Series

    Canadian-Soviet Hockey Series
    Goal of the centuryThe Soviet Union would use professional Hockey players to complete against the other countries in Olympic Hockey
    Canada uses NHL against to Soviet Union
    Canada wins gold

  • Fall of the Berlin Wall

    Fall of the Berlin Wall
    Gorbachev had been issued a challenge to tear down the wall
    West Berlin protesters wanted out
    The protest was growing in numbers
    Eventually the wall was taken down

  • Fall of the Soviet Union

    Fall of the Soviet Union
    Czechoslovakia, Romania, and Bulgaria fell in Decmeber 1989
    The soviet Union was becoming bankrupt
    Gorbachev resigned on Decmeber 25, 1991
    The Soviet Union offically ended in 1992