Canada"s role military conflict

By moms spaghetti
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    Cold War

  • Korean War

    Korean War
    North Korea was trying to take over South Korea it was a battle of democray and communism. Canada and the USA were fighting on the side of South Korea. The USSR was fighting on the side of North Korea

  • Suez Crisis

    Suez Crisis
    This War was between Egypt and Britan, France. and Isreal. This was over a canal build in Egypt that was controled by Britan. Egypt wanted control over this canal. The united nations sent in Canada soldiers to be peace keepers. The UN put Canada troops in the middle of the battle feild. This causes peace

  • Cuban Missle Crisis

    Cuban Missle Crisis
    The Cuban missle crisis was when the USSR put missle silos in cuba and had them aimed at the USA. The USA also had missles in Turkey pointed at the USSR. Canada was upset about this because the USA almost started nuclear war and didnt tell Canada anything

  • Cyprus

    Cyprus
    This War was a battle of Turkish People and Greek People in Cyprus. Turkey wanted to control the island and call it apart of Turkey. Greece also had the same idea so the war was started. Canada got involved as peacekeepers brought in by the UN.

  • Vietnam War

    Vietnam War
    North Vietnam was trying to take over the whole country and make the country communist. The USA went to go help South Vietnam. Canada does not go to war in vietnam but Canada does take draft dodgers from the USA and Canada accepts regugees from Vietnam.

  • Somalia

    Somalia
    There was a war in samlia. It was intruders against somalians. There was 900 canadian soldiers sent to somalia to help somalia. At the end of this somalia made changes to there military.

  • Yugoslavia

    Yugoslavia
    Slovenia and Croatai declared there in dapendence in 1991.This worried Yugoslavia government because serb minority in these states. The fighting was between the serbs, bosniaks and the croats. The UN solders were faced with a full scale cival war. The canadains were attacked by the Croats. The croats eventually left the region.

  • Rwanda

    Rwanda
    There was conflict between the tutsi and the hutu population. When the hutu party won an election 20,000 tutsis were killed and over 300,000 fled. The UN set up UNAMIR. But it was a weak responce. So the UN sent in peacekeeping forces.