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Quebec's Padlock Law
Maurice Duplessis created the act that prevented Communism in Quebec, the act was called the Padlock Law. It has significance to Canada becaue the law was created in Quebec -
Spies In Canada: Gouzenko Affair
Igor Gouzenko was a clerk in the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa for 2 years from 1943 to 1945. On September 5th 1945 Gouzenko defected to Canada. When he defected to Canada Gouzenko brought papers and other proof that the Soviets had been spying on Canada. This resulted in the Cold War. -
Berlin Blockade
The Berlin blockade (24 June 1948 – 12 May 1949) was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post–World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway, road and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Allied control. -
Internatiol Alliances: NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization, was basically capitalist countries versus communist countries. Fierce rivalry with the Warsaw Pact. -
The Korean War
Was a war between the Republic of Korea and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. It was primarily the result of the political division of Korea by an agreement of the victorious Allies at the conclusion of the Pacific War at the end of World War II. Following the surrender of the Empire of Japan in September 1945, American administrators divided the peninsula along the 38th parallel, with U.S. m -
Continental Alliances: NORAD and DEW line
The Distant Early Warning Line, also known as the DEW Line or Early Warning Line, was a system of radar stations in the far northern Arctic region of Canada, with additional stations along the North Coast and Aleutian Islands of Alaska, in addition to the Faroe Islands, Greenland, and Iceland. It was set up to detect incoming Soviet bombers during the Cold War, and provide early warning of any sea-and-land invasion. -
UN Peacekeeping: The Suez Crisis and Pearson wins the Nobel Prize
Egypt attempted to nationalize the Suez canal and Britain, France and Israel responded by invading Egypt and trying to regain the Canal -
Sputnik and Canada's space program
First sattelite in space, launched by USSE, Canada had the third sattelite in space. -
Avro Arrow and its cancellation
he Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow was a delta-winged interceptor aircraft, designed and built by Avro Aircraft Limited (Canada) in Malton, Ontario, as the culmination of a design study that began in 1953. Considered to be both an advanced technical and aerodynamic achievement for the Canadian aviation industry. -
Diefenbaker, Bomarc missiles and nuclear warheads in Canada
The supersonic Bomarc missiles were the first long-range anti-aircraft missiles. Rocket boosted and then ramjet powered, they were capable of carrying conventional or nuclear warheads. Their intended role in defense was in an intrusion prevention perimeter controlled by the SAGE computer air defense system. Bomarcs sited on the eastern and western coasts of North America theoretically would launch and would destroy enemy bombers before the bombers could drop their payloads on industrial regions. -
The Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban missile crisis—known as the October crisis in Cuba and the Caribbean crisis in the USSR—was a 13-day confrontation between the Soviet Union and Cuba on one side, and the United States on the other, in October 1962. It is one of the major confrontations of the Cold War, and is generally regarded as the moment in which the Cold War came closest to turning into a nuclear conflict. -
Canada - Soviet Hockey Series
The Summit Series, or Super Series known at the time simply as the Canada–USSR Series, was an eight-game series of ice hockey between the Soviet Union and Canada, held in September 1972. It was the first competition between the Soviet national team and a Canadian team represented by professional players of the National Hockey League (NHL), known as Team Canada. -
Vietnam War and Draft Dodgers in Canada
The Vietnam War was a Cold War-era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955[A 1] to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. Draft evasion is an intentional decision not to comply with the military conscription policies of one's nation. Such practices that do not involve law breaking or which are based on conscientious objection are sometimes referred to as "draft avoidance." Refusing to submit the draft is considered a criminal offence in most countries wh -
The Fall of the Berlin Wall
The fall of the Berlin Wall happened nearly as suddenly as its rise. There had been signs that the Communist bloc was weakening, but the East German Communist leaders insisted that East Germany just needed a moderate change rather than a drastic revolution. East German citizens did not agree. -
The Fall of The Sovet Union
In December of 1991, as the world watched in amazement, the Soviet Union disintegrated into fifteen separate countries. Its collapse was hailed by the west as a victory for freedom, a triumph of democracy over totalitarianism, and evidence of the superiority of capitalism over socialism. The US were happy as they saw there enemy crumble.
