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Quebec's Padlock Law
An Act on the province of Quebec by the union Nationale government. It was intended to prevent the dissemination of communist propaganda. The Act prohibited anyone to "use or allow any person to make use of it to propagate communism. As well as the printing, publishing or distributing of any newspaper, periodical, pamphlet, circular, document or writing, propagating Communism. A violation of the Act subjected such property to being ordered closed by Attorny General. -
Spies in Canada - Gouzenko Affair
109 documents on Soviet espionage activities in the West. This forced Prime Minister Mackenzie King to call a Royal Commission to investigate espionage in Canada. -
UN Peacekeeping
It is distinguished from both peacebuilding and peacemaking. United Nations peacekeeping was initially developed during the Cold War as a means of resolving conflicts between states by deploying unarmed or lightly armed military personnel from a number of countries, under UN command, to areas where warring parties were in need of a neutral party to observe the peace process. -
Berlin Blockade
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. -
International Alliances: NATO
constitutes a system of collective defence whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party. -
"The Forgotten War"
The Korean War (in the United States and Canada). The Korean Peninsula was ruled by the Empire of Japan from 1910 until the end of World War II. -
Continental Alliances
DEW (Distant Early Warning) designed and built during the Cold War as the primary air defence warning line in case of an over-the-pole invasion of the North America. Attack, over the North Pole by enemy nuclear bombers and missiles was considered a real threat to the security of the United States. The DEW Line consisted of radar stations with “over lapping” radar coverage and the ability to detect aircraft and missiles. -
Sputnik and Canada's Space program
Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit on 4 October 1957. -
Diefenbaker - Bomarc missiles and nuclear warheads in Canada
In the fall of 1958 Prime Minister Diefenbaker's Conservative government announced an agreement with the US to deploy in Canada 2 squadrons of the American ramjet-powered "Bomarc" antiaircraft missile. This controversial defence decision was one of many flowing from the 1957 NORAD agreement with the US. It was argued by some that the surface-to-air guided missile, with a range of 640 km, would be an effective replacement for the manned AVRO ARROW, which was also scrapped. -
Avro Arrow
The Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow was a delta-winged interceptor aircraft, designed and built by Avro Aircraft Limited in Malton, Ontario, as the culmination of a design study that began in 1953. cancelled on February 20, 1959. -
The Cuban Missile Crisis
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
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. -
The Fall of the Soviet Union
he history of the Soviet Union from 1982 through 1991, spans the period from Leonid Brezhnev's death and funeral until the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Due to the years of Soviet military buildup at the expense of domestic development, economic growth stagnated -
The Fall of the Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. -
Vietnam War & Draft Dodgers in Canada
Canada was firmly allied with the mainstream Western powers. For instance, Canada was a founding member of NATO, and was instrumental in the forming of that military alliance against the Soviet Union and its satellites. Canada's foreign policy was also committed to multilateralism and the United Nations, perhaps most noticeably under Lester B. Pearson from 1963 to 1968.
