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Quebec's Padlock Law
Quebec's Padlock Law was intended to protect quebec against all things communist. It was created so that people would have less knowledge of communism and bolshevism
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ACt 1: It was illegal to occupie a house to propagate Communism.
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Gouzenko Affair
Igor Gouzenko was born in the soviet union and was trained as a spy. He was trained to go into Canada and other western countires as a spy. One of the biggest accomplishment of the spies was to steal the secrets of the atomic bomb. While in the countires him and his family changed their identity to protect them and when he used he real name in public he wore a white mask over his head so that he would be unknown. -
Berlin blockade
Berlin Blockade VideoThe berlin Blockade was an attemp that the soviet union tried to make to limit the ability of France, Great Britain and the United States to travel to their sectors of Berlin -
N.A.T.O
Signing Session of NATO
North atlantic Treaty Orginazation is a defence pact to protect them from the soviet aggression, the soviet union is commited to spreading communism as far as possible. Counties were becoming concerned so therefore several nations joined in to created the NATO defence pact -
The Korean War
The communist North korea and china decided to attack south korea, under the communist agression. The united states helped south korea because noth korea and china were communist. From all the members of the UN only 16 of them went out to help south korea. In 1953 there was a truce, Canada stayed in south korea untill 1955 to help maintain the truce -
DEW
The DEW Line Story
The Dew (Distant Early Warning) was a line of continental defence radars. NORAD used dew inorder to detect any incomeing planes towards the north america. -
Warsaw Pact
Warsaw Pact, was a defence treaty between eight communist States of central and eastern europe. It was the Communist counteraction to NATO it became quite pa otential militaristic threat, as a sign of Communist dominance. -
The Suez Crisis
Suez Crisis video
The suez canal represents the only direct way to travel from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean, making it important to the flow of trade between Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and the USA. Britain and France desired control of it but abdel nassar thought that the egyptians deserved it -
Vietnam war
video It was a war against communist and democracy. The North Vietnam supported communist and South support Demorcracy. The South wanted to be independent america thinks wiinning the war will help end communism -
NORAD
North America Air Defence was created so that the United States and Canada would defend each other. It provides for aerospace warnings such enemy missiles or aircrafts heading towards north america. -
Sputnik
SPUTNIK 1 CBS NEWS SPECIAL REPORT
Sputnik was the first artificial satellite to be put into the Earth's orbit, the sovie union launched it on october 4th the take off enhanced politics, military, technology and scientific developments. It was such a big success canada and the states wanted to join the "space race" -
Lester B. Pearson wins nobel prize
Pearson Video
Lester B. Pearson came up with a novel solution for the suez crisis winning him a nobel prize -
Avro Arrow
Avro Arrow first flight
The Avro arrow was created in order to protect canadas from the soviet union and their long range bombs. It was one of the best fighter jet known to date but it got cancelled because it costed too much and they totally discareded the whole project -
Diefenbaker and nuclear warheads
george diefenbaker orderd the U.S. to defend Canada with their missles even thougj canadanever used tehem -
Cuban Missle crisis
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Soviet Union was very behind in their missiles comparing to the United states so Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev told cuba to have missiles so that it would scare the united states. JKF said that if they pass the border to Cuba they will fire missiles. so they left -
Canada-Soviet hockey series
The soviets gad a great hockey team for the past 10 years. Then for the first time they played the Canadians, they scored with 34 seconds left to win. -
The fall of the Berlin Wall
Video
he berlin wall was taken down. At the end of the Cold War Germans used picks and hammers to take down the wall and let the people free to cross the border. every on e celebrated -
The Fall of the Soviet Union
VideoThe Soviet Union split into fifteen separate countries. This meant the end of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States.
