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Quebecs padlock law
This was the law to protect the civilians from communistic propaganda. -
Spies in canada (Gouzenko affair)
Gouzenko worked with the soviet embassy on intelligence work, But when he switched to the canadian side the soviets wanted to kill him. he gave the canadians key information and went on witness protection -
Berlin blockade
In 1948 the soviet union broke and agreement with their allies to give up the estabolished rights to occupy the western part of the former german capital city of berlin. It attempted to litterally block the supply lines to west berlin. This failed. -
International alliances(NATO)
After the soviets openly admitted to spreading communism, other countries including canada and the united states were becoming concerned for their safety. That is why the NATO was formed, it was made to protect these countries together. -
The Korean War
Under american influence, the security council of the united nations condemned and attack on north korea, over 1000 canadians were killed and 406 wounded. -
Vietnam war and draft dodgers
American draft dodgers and military deserters who sought refuge in Canada during the Vietnam War would ignite controversy among those seeking to immigrate to Canada, some of it provoked by the Canadian government’s initial refusal to admit those who could not prove that they had been discharged from [American] military service -
Suez crisis
Isreli forces attacked egypt to seize control of the suez canl, The soviet union threatnened to come aid the the egyptions -
Avro arrow
The avro arrow was a plane made in 1958, it was cancelled because it costed too much money. -
diefenbaker missile crisis
In the fall of 1958 Prime Minister Diefenbaker's Conservative government announced an agreement with the US to deploy in Canada 2 squadrons of the American ramjet-powered "Bomarc" antiaircraft missile. This controversial defence decision was one of many flowing from the 1957 NORAD agreement with the US. It was argued by some that the surface-to-air guided missile, with a range of 640 km, would be an effective replacement for the manned AVRO ARROW, which was also scrapped. -
NORAD
NORAD, was a defence system put in place to defend against missiles fired from long distances. -
Stutnik and canadas space program.
The americans helped out the canadians (gave us money) for a program that protects us from missle defence. This has no yet been used. -
Cuban missile crisis
In 1962, the Soviet Union was desperately behind the United States in the arms race. Soviet missiles were only powerful enough to be launched against Europe but U.S. missiles were capable of striking the entire Soviet Union. In late April 1962, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev conceived the idea of placing intermediate-range missiles in Cuba. A deployment in Cuba would double the Soviet strategic arsenal and provide a real deterrent to a potential U.S. attack against the Soviet Union. -
Summit series
The Summit Series, or Super Series[1] (in Russian Суперсерия СССР — Канада), known at the time simply as the Canada–USSR Series, was an eight-game series of ice hockey between the Soviet Union and Canada, held in September 1972. It was the first competition between the Soviet national team and a Canadian team represented by professional players of the National Hockey League (NHL -
Fall of berlin wall
November 9 marks the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. Since 1989, pictures of rejoicing people, hugging each other and dancing on top of the Wall after the opening of the border crossing, have been used as symbols for the collapse of the GDR (German Democratic Republic) and the other Stalinist regimes that had come to power in Eastern Europe after the end of the Second World War. -
The fall of the soviet
In December of 1991, as the world watched in amazement, the Soviet Union disintegrated into fifteen separate countries. Its collapse was hailed by the west as a victory for freedom, a triumph of democracy over totalitarianism, and evidence of the superiority of capitalism over socialism. The United States rejoiced as its formidable enemy was brought to its knees, thereby ending the Cold War which had hovered over these two superpowers since the end of World War II.
