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Quebec's Padlock Law
Padlock law: Act to protect the Province Against Communistic Propaganda -
Spies in Canada: Gouzenko Affair -dected Canada
Igor Gouzenko was trained in intelligence work and was assigned to the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa 1943.
He learned that the Soviet Intelligence operated several spy networks in Canada and other Western countries.
Canada was going to send him back to Russia, and he wasn't interested in Soviet life or Soviet politics so he offered the Canadian government secret documents exposing the work of Soviet spies so he could stay.
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Berlin Blockade
The Soviet Union brok an agreement with it's former allies.
Attempted to force the Allies to give up their established rights to occupy the Western part of the former Germany -capital city of Berlin.
The Soviets attempted to physically blck all supply lines to West Berlin.
The Allies organized an air lift to provide food and other supplies to the residents of West Berlin.
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International Alliances: NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
An intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949. Ten West European countries and the United States and Canada signed the Treaty.
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"The Forgotten War" - The Korean War
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.
Only 16 Nations aided the war effort in Korea, on which Canada ranked third. -
Continental Alliances: NORAD and DEW line
The North American Air Defence agreement was signed by Canada and the United States, stating that they agree to help each other.
Canada allowed the U.S. to build several defence installations in the Nprthewest Territories to create the Distant Early Warning (DEW) system. It was set up to detect incoming Soviet bombers during the Cold War, and provide early warning of any sea-and-land invasion. -
Vietnam War and Draft Dodgers in Canada
Draft Dodgers: Americans came to Canada to avoid conscription. 20,000 to 30,000 draft-eligible American men came to Canada as immigrants during the Vietnam era.
Canada sold goods and food to the U.S. even though it was trying to stay neutral, it ended up helping the U.S. -
UN Peacekeeping: The Suez Crisis and Pearson Wins Nobel Prize
A diplomatic and military confrontation in late 1956 between Egypt on one side and Britain, France and Israel on the other with the United States, the Soviet Union and the United Nations playing major roles in forcing Britain, France and Israel to withdraw.
Israeli occupation of Sinai (until March 1957).
United Nations cease-fire
UNEF deployment in Sinai
Pearson's solution - immediate end to all shooting + creation of a special UN peacekeeping force to moniter the withdrawal of invading forces -
Sputnik and Canada's Space Program
The Soviets launched Sputnik- the first artificial Earth Sattelite.
The rocket that put Sputnik in orbit around the Earth could also be used to deliver a nuclearwarhead to any spot in North America.
The Americans replaced their fleet of long-range bomber aircraft with long-range misslies known as intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM's) for fear that the Soviets had gotten the advantage with the rocket. -
Avro Arrow and it's Cancellation
Avro Arrow program -Canadian program that built jets.
Fastest in the world
Were made to protect the citizens of Canada against Soviet bomb attacks.
JBecause of how expensive it was ohn Diefenbaker and his government cancelled it.
"Black Friday" is the what they call the day it got ancelled because so many people lost their jobs. -
Diefenbaker, Bomarc missiles and Nuclear warheads in Canada
Since the Avro Arrow was cancceled because it was too expensive - Bomarc missiles were its replacement.
It was an American made missile with a range of 640 km. Pearson was against having nuclear weapons in Canada.
In 1963, the Diefenbaker government was forced to call an election because of a cabinet revolt over the issue. In that election, the Liberals, led by Pearson, defeated Diefenbaker's Conservatives. He went on and accepted Bomarc missile armed with nuclear weapons. -
Canada-Soviet Hockey Series
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.
first four games of the series were held in Canada and the final four in Moscow. -
The Fall of the Berlin Wall
The "Iron Curtain" that separated Western Europe and the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War.
Kept the people of East Berlin out of West Berlin.
Prevented almost all such emigration between East Berlin into West Berlin and West Germany and other Western European countries.
It was physically destroyed -
The Fall of the Soviet Union
The Soviet Union fell in 1991 when Boris Yeltsin seized power in the aftermath of a failed coup that had attempted to topple reform-minded Gorbachev. Gorbachev's programs of perestroika and glasnost produced radical unforeseen effects that brought that system down. -
The Cuban Missile Crisis
Cuba and the Soviet Union were on one side and the United States on the other.
The Soviets had missiles around Cuba to stop the United States from attacking Cuba.
A military blockade was done on Cuba by the United States.
Agreement with the United States and the Soviets+Cuba-> USA would not invade Cuba again and the Soviets agreed that they would take down their missiles in Cuba.
