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Quebec's Padlock Law
Was a law passed by the Quebec goverment under Maurice Dupelss during the cold war. It prevented the spread of communisim. Anyone printing, distripbuting or creating propagate that supported communisim or Bolshevism could be imprisoned for up to a year. THis violated Canadian rights, as they did not have freedom of speech and it denied the presumtion of innocence. The law was later stuck down by the Supreme Cort -
Spies In Canada Guozenko Affair
Often called the man with the white hood, Igor Gouzenko defected from the Soviet Union. He was often credited with starting -
The Suez Crisis
The suez crisis took place in the middle east. This region had been a threat to world peace for a long time. Israel was recognized as a country by the United Nations. THe arabs, who claimed that Isreal's land was there's were upset and they swore revenge. In 1948 Isreal seized more land. Other nations had interests in this land because of its oil and often took sides in these disputed to further there own interensts -
Berlin Blockade
Was the first major crisis of the Cold War. It occured when the Allies occupied Germany after World War 2. The Soviet Union wanted to gain control over Germany buy being the sole provider of materials to the crippled country. They blockaded the country. Materials were delivered by airlift to Berlin. This made a fool of the Soviets. -
International Alliances (NATO)
homepageThe North Atlantic Treaty Organization or Nato is an intergovermental alliance.It was meant to protect its members from attack as a detterent. If one of the nations was attacked then the member countries were obligated to defend it. In response to this creation the Russians Created the Warsaw Pact. To learn more about Nato here is there -
The Korean War
This war was a war beteen communist north Korea and South Korea. South Korea was backed by the United Sates and its allies and North Korea was supported by The Soviet Union and China.
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Vietnam War
This war was a battle between North Vietnam and its communist allies and South Vietnam and its Democratic allies. Alot of people were killed in action. It was a bloody war that was mainly gurilla -
Sputnik and Canada's Space program
The Sputnik craft was Earth's first artificial satellite. Russia created it. This sattelite in itself was not a problem, however these missles could be used to fire nuclear warheads at any city in North America. -
Avro Arrow
Was a Canadian airplane created to intercept sOviet missles. It was a Candaian designed ship and the production wsa abruptly halted. Destroying the canadian areospace industry. -
Continental Alliances (DEW line
NORAD or North American Air Defence was a US based defence system created and funded by the Americans. They wanted to create radar bases in the North West Territories to act as an early warning system to alert us of a missle attack. These bases were called the DEW line. -
Nuclear Warheads In Canada
Canada does not posess any nuclear war heads -
Cuban Missle Crisis
This even was considered the closing of Cold war. The Soviet Union was building nuclear weapons in Cuba. From this position they could nuke evry city in North America. To stop the creation of this area the us barricaded Cuba. The Soviet Union stopped building the misses. -
The Soviets and the Canadians, hockey
We organized a team against the Soviets. They tied us for three games and then one of our players scored -
The fall of the Berlin Wall
People started escaping to other countries and going therough there embassies to get out of East Germany into West. Thus made the wall ineffective so it was knocked down -
THe Fall of the Soviet Union
The Soviet Union fell apart due to a standstill econmy and a collapsing military
