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Padlock Law
Padlock Law
-law against communist propaganda
-law made by Maurice L. Duplessis who was the premier of Quebec -
Gouzenko Affair
-soviet spy who came to the saoviet embassy in 1943
-decided to defect to canada
-he offered the canadian government secret documents exposing the work of soviet spies
-the canadaian government had to protect him for the rest of his life from soviet agents -
Berlin Blockade
- the germans tried to stop the allies from giving supplies to berlin by blocking the path -it had failed because of the airsupport from the allies
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UN Peacekeeping
-when the jews were shiped to isreal, the Arabs who were living there weren't happy about it
-an uneasy truce was made, which lasted until 1956
-when egypt took control of the canal britain and frnace declared war
- a canadian named Lester Pearson had a plan to end all of the shooting
-he later became prime minister and won a nobel prize in 1957 -
International Alliances
-Alliance between 12 members: Belgium, Britain, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxemborough, The Neatherlands, Norway, Portugal, and the United States
-they provided protection from the other countries
-mainly protection from the warsaw pact, which was fromed in 1955. by 8 countries -
The Korean War
-North Korea and South Korea went to war
-in all of the nations, only 16 had come to help
- nearly 25,000 canadians saw action before the truce -
Sputnik and Canadas space program
-sputnik satellite
-the rocket that took sputnik could have also been used as a nuclear warhead -
Continental Alliances
- NORAD was an agreement to help defend eachother (canada and the US) -DEW line is a high powered radar antennae which can pick up incoming aircrafts, if something is detected, they let NORAD know
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Bomarc Missiles and nuclear warheads
- Deployed american made bomarc missiles in ontario and quebec
- john Diefenbaker
- the Canadians did not tell anyone about the nuclear fitted weapon
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Avro Arrow
- Avro Arrow was a jet that was supposed to secure Canada, Instead, they scrapped the jet and built Bomarc misiles for canadas defence
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Cuban Missile Crisis
- from communist Cuba, missiles could be launched accurately and hit any city in north america
- allies were about to do blockade and have all sites suspected and missiles bases examined
- the blockade remained and in the end the soviet union turned back
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Canada-Soviet hockey series
-Canadian and Russian Olympic teams had competed for a series final with NHL players
-both teams had won 3 games and they were in the finals, with a minute left Paul Henderson scored which had boosted the Canadians National pride -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
-The spokesman for east berlin communist party announced a change in the citys relations with the west
- this was made official on october 3, 1990 -
Fall of the Soviet Union
- the soviet union fell to their knees and had given up
- citizens in canada were thankful because they had their lives back
