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Quebec's Padlock Law
The Quebec government introduced An Act to Protect the Province Against Communist Propaganda (Padlock Act) in 1937. The Padlock Act was inspired by an amendment to the Criminal Code that was introduced following the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919. -
Spies in Canada: Gouzenko Affair
After the end of the Second World War, a Russian cipher clerk named Igor Gouzenko fled the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa with 109 documents proving the existence of a Soviet spy ring in Canada. His revelations reverberated throughout the world and helped to ignite the Cold War. -
Berlin Blockade
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International Alliances: NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO), also called the North Atlantic Alliance, the Atlantic Alliance or the Western Alliance, is an international organisation1 for collective security established in 1949, in support of the North Atlantic Treaty signed in Washington, DC, on 4 April 1949. -
The Korean War： “The Forgotten War"
Canada sent nearly 30 000 troops to fight in Korea, which has been described as the “Forgotten War” because for most Canadians it is overshadowed by Canada’s role in the two world wars. -
Continental Alliances: NORAD and DEW line
The DEW Line was 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 Suez Crisis
The Suez Crisis erupts on July 26, 1956 when Egyptian President Abdul Nasser nationalises the Suez Canal Company – which had been run by the French with the British government as the largest single shareholder. As the situation deteriorates, Pearson decided to propose the first UN peace-keeping force. Grasping at straws, his initial idea is to convert the invading French and British forces into real peacekeepers with a mandate from the UN. But the fury in the General Assembly and the rage from W -
Pearson wins Nobel Prize
It has been fifty years since a remarkable Canadian - Lester Bowles Pearson - was honoured with the 1957 Nobel Peace Prize for his vision, wisdom, perseverance and skillful success in establishing an international police force to resolve the 1956 Suez Crisis. -
Bomarc missiles
The decision of the Conservative government in 1958 to cancel the Avro Arrow and deploy two squadrons of the American Bomarc missile caused a crisis in Canadian defence policy. -
Sputnik and Canada's space program
The race between American and Russian that who can step into the space first. American steped in the space first. They prove their technology and beat Russia. -
Avro Arrow and its Cancellation
Considered to be both an advanced technical and aerodynamic achievement for the Canadian aviation industry, the CF-105 (Mark 2) held the promise of near Mach 3 speeds at altitudes likely exceeding 60,000 ft. (18,000 m), and was intended to serve as the Royal Canadian Air Force's (RCAF) primary interceptor in the 1960s and beyond. -
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The Fall of the Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was both the physical division between West Berlin and East Germany from 1961 to 1989 and the symbolic boundary between democracy and Communism during the Cold War. -
The Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest the world ever came to nuclear war. The United States armed forces were at their highest state of readiness ever and Soviet field commanders in Cuba were prepared to use battlefield nuclear weapons to defend the island if it was invaded. -
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Vietnam War & Draft Dodgers
At the start of the Vietnam War, Canada was a member of the ICC overseeing the implementation of the Geneva Agreements, and thus attempted to maintain an air of neutrality. Canada sent foreign aid to South Vietnam, which, while humanitarian, was directed by the Americans. -
Canada-Soviet Hockey Series
People took the day off work on Sept. 28, 1972 to watch Canada play the Soviet Union. In the game's last seconds, their hero Paul Henderson scored an epoch-making goal. But the hockey series was more than just that final game. The fast and skilled Soviets surprisingly showed up Team Canada in eight gruelling games that changed Canadian hockey forever. -
The Fall of the Soviet Union
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.
