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Gouzenko Affair
Was a cipher clerk for the Soviet Embassy to Canada in Ottawa, Ontario. He defected on September 5, 1945, with 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. Gouzenko exposed Joseph Stalin's efforts to steal nuclear secrets, and the technique of planting sleeper agents. -
Atomic Bomb Drops
During the final stage of the Second World War on August 1945, the United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The two bombings (Fat Man and Little Boy), which killed at least 129,000 people. That was the only use of nuclear weapons for warfare in history and it remains that way. There were many motives behind this attack, but revenge played a huge part in the decision making. -
Formation of NATO
NATO is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949. The organization constitutes a system of collective defence whereby its member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party. NATO's headquarters are in Brussels, Belgium, one of the 28 member states across North America and Europe, the newest of which, Albania and Croatia, joined in April 2009. -
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Korean War
This war was between North and South Korea, in which a United Nations force led by the United States of America fought for the South, and China fought for the North, which was also assisted by the Soviet Union. The war arose from the division of Korea at the end of World War II and from the global tensions of the Cold War that developed immediately afterwards. Resulted in North Korean invasions of South Korea repelled,Subsequent United Nations invasion of North Korea repelled
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Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact (formally, the Treaty of Friendship, Co-operation, and Mutual Assistance, sometimes, informally WarPac, akin in format to NATO) was a collective defense treaty among eight communist states of Central and Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War. It was extinct on 1 July 1991. Membership (
Bulgaria Bulgaria
Czechoslovakia Czechoslovakia
East Germany East Germany
Hungary Hungary
Poland Poland
Romania Romania
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Vietnam War (beginning)
The war was fought between North Vietnam—supported by the Soviet Union, China and other communist allies—and the government of South Vietnam—supported by the United States and other anti-communist allies. *Beginning in 1950, American military advisors arrived in what was then French Indochina.[40][A 3] U.S. involvement escalated in the early 1960s, with troop levels tripling in 1961 and again in 1962. Operations crossed international borders: bordering areas of Laos and Cambodia. -
Suez Crisis
The Suez Crisis was an invasion of Egypt in late 1956 by Israel, followed by Britain and France. The goal was to regain Western control of the Suez Canal and to remove Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser from power. (happened in this location,Gaza Strip and Egypt (Sinai and Suez Canal zone)
Here is a list of the outcomes...
- Egyptian political victory & coalition military victory, along with Anglo-French withdrawal following international pressure, Israeli occupation of Sinai ect.... -
NORAD
NORAD is a combined organization of the United States and Canada that provides aerospace warning, air sovereignty, and defense for Northern America. An agreement was announced that a new organization was to be formed between Canada and the United States to be known as NORAD or the North American Air Defence Agreement.(As a result of the Diefenbaker Conservatives win at the polls in 1957, the Canadian government made a decision to abandon the Avro Arrow CF-105 fighter) -
Cancellation of Avro Arrow SALT Treaty
The day became known as "Black Friday" in the Canadian aviation industry. The decision to terminate the program immediately put 14,528 Avro employees out of work,[81] as well as nearly 15,000 other employees in the Avro supply chain of outside suppliers. It was widely believed that during this lead-up to the review, the first Arrow Mk 2, RL-206, would be prepared for an attempt at both world speed and altitude records. -
Cuban Missles Crisis
Was a 13-day confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over Soviet ballistic missiles deployed in Cuba and the Caribbean.
Results...withdrawal of Soviet Union's nuclear missiles from Cuba
withdrawal of American nuclear missiles from Turkey & Italy
Agreement with the Soviet Union that the United States would never invade Cuba without direct provocation
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Vietnam War (ending)
These were the end results of the war...
- North Vietnamese victory
- Withdrawal of American-led forces from Indochina
- Communist governments take power in South Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia
There were also new territorial changes...
changes Reunification of North and South Vietnam into the Socialist Republic of Vietnam. South Vietnam is annexed by North Vietnam -
Strategic Defense Initiative
The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), also known as Star Wars, was a program first initiated on March 23, 1983 under President Ronald Reagan. The intent of this program was to develop a sophisticated anti-ballistic missile system in order to prevent missile attacks from other countries, specifically the Soviet Union. The system, which was to combine ground-based units and orbital deployment platforms, was first publicly announced by President Ronald Reagan. -
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Dissolution of the Soviet Union
All of these people (People of the Soviet Union, Federal government, Republican governments, Autonomous SSRs) participated in creating seperate indeprendent republics out of what was the Soviet Union. -
Fall of the Berlin Wall
The demlition began on 13 June 1990, the initiative focused on strategic defense rather than the prior strategic offense doctrine of mutual assured destruction (MAD). The Strategic Defense Initiative Organization (SDIO) was set up in 1984 within the United States Department of Defense to oversee the Strategic Defense Initiative. In practice, the Wall served to prevent the massive emigration and defection that marked East Germany and the communist Eastern Bloc during the post-World War II period.
