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Gouzenko Affair
A russian clerk named Igor Gouzenko had escaped the soviet Embassy in Ottawa with him were109 documents proving the existence of a soviet spy in Canada. His actions helped to wake the cold War. -
United nations
The UN is a international organization made of the magority of the countries of the world. It was founded in 1945 to promote peace, security, and economic development. -
Berlin Blockade
The Berlin seal off was an undertake in 1948 by the soviet union to trammel the ability of France, Great Britain and the united States to travel to their sectors of Berlin, which set within Russian-occupied east Germany -
NATO
A organization established in 1949, comprising of Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom, and the United States, and later joined by Greece, Turkey, Germany, Spain, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland. -
Lester B. Pearson
He had helped NATO's over come the large troop concentrations in Western Europe. which instead had been supporting foreign intervention, peacekeeping, diplomacy and support to Non-aligned Nations. -
The Korean War
it was a war between north and south Korea. south Korea had the upper hand because they were assisted by the united States and other members of the united Nations. -
Dwight D. Eisenhower
he was the allied commander for Europe during world war II. later, he was elected president of the united states. -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam war was amilitary conflict between the Communist forces of North Vietnam whom are supported by China and the Soviet Union and the non-Communist forces of South Vietnam supported by the United States. -
Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact was a military treaty and association of mostly European countries, formed in 1955 by the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania. -
Suez Crisis
Was a short and brief conflict following nationalization of the Suez Canal by President Nasser of Egypt in 1956. Britain and France had at the time made a military alliance with Israel to regain the power of the canal, but international criticism forced the withdrawal of forces. -
Fidel Castro
Fidel Castro had overthrown a dictator and later went on to established a Marxist socialist state in Cuba. Not only that be He also ordered Cuba to process oil from the Soviet Union during the Cold War. Becouse Cuba and The soviet Union has reached a trade agreement. -
Norad
a joint U.S.-Canadian air force that was the command responsible for detecting any aircraft and space vehicles that where deemed a threat to the continental airspace. -
Sputnik Satellites
Any of a series of soviet satellites sent into earth orbit, especially the first, launched October 4, 1957. -
Munsigner Affair
The Munsinger Affair was the very first sex scandal in the canadian history. It consisted of the focusing on Gerda Musniger and an alleged East German prostitute and a spy who lived in ottawa and slept with number of cabinet ministers in John Diefenbaker's government. -
The U2 Plane
Was a planned four-power summit conference, which was in 1960 canceled when the Soviets, to the embarrassment of the United States, had been shot down an American U-2 spy plane over the Soviet Union and captured its pilot. -
Berlin Wall
the communistic government of the german democratic Republic began to build a barbed wire and concrete between east and west Berlin. The official resolve of this Berlin wall was to preserve western fascists from entering east Germany and undermining the socialistic state, but it primarily served the objective of stemming mass defections from east to West. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
n the cuban Missile Crisis, the soviet was building launching sites for medium-range and mediate rate nuclear missiles on the island of Cuba. The leadership of Kennedy and Khrushchev unbroken the crisis from escalating into a wax nuclear war. ended 28th oct 1962. -
Nikita Khrushchev
He was significant because he played a big role in saving the world from nuclear war by removing the nuclear weapons he had in cuba, therefore removing the threat of a nuclear strike or declaration of war from the US. -
John F Kennedy
John F Kennedy played a very big role in stoping the cuban missle crisis, So this way where was never a nuclear crisis. -
Leonid Brezhnev
Leonid Brezhnev was a communist leader. part of the Soviet Union, Leonid had restored Stalinist-type dictatorship which later resulted in military growth that exhausted the Soviet economy and later led to collapse of the Soviet Union. -
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
It was an invasion of afghanistan by the troops of the soviet union. The soviet unionwhere sustained in afghanistani communistic government and its run afoul with anticommunist muslim guerrillas during the afghanistani war and remained in Afghanistan until mid-February 1989. -
Mikhail Gorbachev
Mikhail Gorbachev was the last General Secretary of the Soviet Union. He brought about massive economic, social, and political changes and, He played a big role in helping end the Cold War and the Soviet Union -
Ronald Reagan
Reagan and Gorbachev had played probably the biggest roles in ending the Cold War, he also had assited in bringing domocracy to the Soviet Union.
