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Padlock Law
Act that stopped the use of Communist propoganda
Breaking the act would result in padlocking. -
Gouzenko Affair
Igor Gouzenko defected with 109 Soviet documents
Gouzenko granted fake identity to hide from Soviet spies -
Berlin Blockade
Soviet Union blocks railroads and supply line to Western Allies
Forced the use of airplanes to deliver supplies -
NATO
Member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party.
Served as a defense system -
Korean war
War between current day North Korea and South Korea
Started with invasion of South Korea by North Korea -
Avro Arrow
Designed as a primary interceptor for the RCAF
Fastest plane built by Canada at the time -
Distant Early Warning (Dew)
Was designed and built 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 -
Vietnam war
Northern Vietnam victorius
South vietnam was annexed by South Vietnam
Communist governments own Cambodia, Laos and South Vietnam -
Suez Crisis
Diplomatic and military confrontation
Ended with UN ceasefire
Ended Britatin's role as a superpower -
Launch of Sputnik
First artificial Earth satellite
Big fear that it could aid Russian efforts in the cold war (Bombs) -
NORAD
A joint organization of Canada and the United States that provides aerospace warning, air sovereignty, and defense for the two countries -
Cuban missile crisis
Soviet retract bombs from Cuba
US forbidden to invade Cuba
Castro's leadership strenthened -
Summit Series
IIHF series between Canada and the Soviet Union
Canada won the series 5-3 -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
No more East and West Germany
Free to move around within Germany -
Fall of the Soviet Union
Resulted in the splitting apart of the Soviet Union into seperate countries.
Federal and Republican governments within the Soviet Union were obolished
