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Gouzenko Affair
Igor Gouzenko was a Soviet spy sent to Canada to recive information, however on September 5, 1945 he defected with 109 Soviet documents. -
Berlin Airlift
The Berlin airlift is an airlift that supplied food as well as fuel to the people of West Berlin, when the Russians closed off air access to Berlin. -
NATO (NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION)
The original members of NATO were Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Together these members would even out the playing feilds with the Soviet Union. Article 5 of the North American Treaty states; " an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all; and consequently they agree that, if such an armed attack occurs, ...." -
Colombo Plan
The Colombo Plan was to assist foreign aid and technical assistance for the economic and social development of the region. -
Korean War
In June of a war broke out between North Korea and South Korea. Unfortunately 2.5 million lost there lives during this war. The Soviet Union and China helped North Korea out a lot, and the United Nations along with the United States helped the South. -
Suez Crisis
The Suez Crisis took place becuase the Egyptian president, Gamal Abdel Nasser, wanted to nationalize the Suez Canal, and make Britain pay to use the canal. The canal was to be attacked to gain back control of the west and remove Nasser from power. -
Hungarian Revolution of 1956
A student demonstration against the government of the People's Republic of Hungary rapidly rose into a nationwide revolt, however eventually the country went back to a new Soviet government. -
The Avro Arrow
The Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow was designed and built by Avro Aircraft Limited (Canada) in Malton, Ontario, Canada, This was considered to be a huge advance in technical and aerodynamic achievements. A debate started over the Arrow and resulting in the cancellation of the Arrow project. -
DEW (Distant Early Warning)
Dew was a system of rador stations along the far altantic regions if Canada. This was made to detect Soviet bombers during th cold war. -
NORAD (NORTH AMERICAN AIR DEFENSE COMMAND
Headquarters NORAD is located at Peterson AFB, Colorado Springs, Colorado. Norad is a joint organization between the United States and Canada providing aerospace warning, air sovereignty, and defense for the two countries -
Peace Keeping in Congo
The United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo to look over and manage the peacekeeping process during the second Congo war. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Soviet Union had decied to place missiles in Cuba to attack America.This is the closest we have come to a nuclear war. -
United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus
The United Nations Peacekeeping Force in Cyprus was made to prevent fighting between the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot communities. -
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (Salt)
Salt is two agreements made up of two preliminary five-year agreements between America. and the Soviet Union for the control of certain nuclear weapons, the first concluded in 1972 (SALT I) and the second drafted in 1979 (SALT II) -
Summit Series
This was the first competition between the Soviet and an NHL-inclusive Canadian national ice hockey teams -
Soviet War
War broke out in Afghanistan,until February of 1989. That is when Soviets finally gave the white flag and announced all of their soldiers had left the country. . -
Perestroika
Peretroika was a political movement made by the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. The policy of "openness".Perestroika is often argued to be a cause of the dissolution of the Soviet Union, the revolutions of 1989 in Eastern Europe, and the end of the Cold War. -
Olympic Politics
The United States and a number of other countries boycotted the games because of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, However some athletes from some of the boycotting countries participated in the games, under the Olympic Flag. This led to the Soviets boycotting the 1984 Summer Olympics. -
US Star Wars
Ronald Reagan, (Us President) introduced the Strategic Defence Initiative. This was to ensure ground and space-based systems to protect the United States if it was to ever be attacked by strategic nuclear ballistic missiles. It got the name star wars after the famous movie ``Star Wars`` in the film by George Lucas in 1977. -
The Berlin Wall
The German Democratic Republic created a barrier that blocked West Berlin from East Germany and East Berlin. Ronald Reagan challanged Mikhail Gorbachev to tear down the wall to symbolize increasing freedom in the Eastern Bloc. Soon enough people began coming to the wall and tearing it down with hand tools.
