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Canada's Role in the United States
Brittian, Soviet Union, United States and Canada met in San Francisco to develope a new world organisation .The League of Nations failed so they came to make the United Nations.Goals were preventing wars, keeping the peace, and defending Human rights. Canada's individual contributions included John Humpfrey who drafted the charter of the UN. And prime minister Lester got the Nobel Peace Prize -
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The Cold War
After world war 2, there were no longer five or six major powers there were only two, The soviet Union and USA.
The cold war was an ideological struggle between usa and the soviet union. They did not face eachother in combat. The war was characterised by the presence of fear of a nuclear war.
USA wanted communism and to contain it. -
Nato
(The North Atlantic Treaty Organisation) was designed for mutual defence. They agreed that an attack on one member was an attack on all. -
Newfoundland joins Canada
Newfoundland Joins Canada -
Korean War
During World War 2 Korea was held by Japan, after the war Korea was divided into north and south korea. North became Communist and South became Deomcratic.
The war in korea was signifiicant for Canada because it showed Canada was willing to support the UN -
Immigration Act
Prim Minister Louis St.Laurent set up the department of citizenship and immigration. It was decided that barring immigrants from entering Canada would continue. By the 1950s demand for immigrant labour was high so they had to be open to accept a lot of new immigrants -
Korean War ends
Korean war ends but south and north are still divided -
Vietnam War Begins
the Vietnam War was the era of the two nations. Coming after the First Indochina War, this period resulted in the military defeat of the French, a 1954 Geneva meeting that partitioned Vietnam into North and South, and the French withdrawal from Vietnam, leaving the Republic of Vietnam regime fighting a communist insurgency with USA aid. During this period, North Vietnam recovered from the wounds of war, rebuilt nationally, and accrued to prepare for the anticipated war. -
Warsaw Pact
was developed in a response to NATO as a defensive alliance of the soviet union -
Suez Crisis
Egyptian President seized the Suez Canal (a vital trade route) from Brittian and France
Brittian, France, and Israel, attack Egypt. Soviert Union sided with Egypt. Lester Pearson, A canadian minister, went to the UN and suggested creating a united nations emergency force that would keep the combatants apart while the Crisis was being sorted out. As a result battle forces were withdrawed and replaced by UN peacekeepers. -
John Diefenbaker becomes PM
He was the only Progressive Conservative party leader between 1930 and 1979 to lead the party to an election victory, doing so three times, although only once with a majority of seats in the Canadian House of Commons. -
Canada Joins NORAD
A soviet attack would in all likelihood come over the arctic, across Canada and into the U.S.. On August 1st, 1957 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. This was intended to be an integrated system of defensive measures, installations and systems that would provide early warning and protection to North America in case of an attack by the Soviet Union. -
Avro Arrow Project Ceased
he Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow was a delta-winged interceptor aircraft, designed and built by Avro Canada as the culmination of a design study that began in 1953. The Arrow is considered to have been an advanced technical and aerodynamic achievement for the Canadian aviation industry -
White Paper
Aboriginals were not aloud to vote drink or own land, the white paper made it so they were equal -
Cuban Missile Crisis
USA spotted Soviet Missles in Cuba during cold war and set up a naval blockade around Cuba. Soivet Union agreed to remove missles and USA would not invade Cuba -
Lester Pearson PM
During Pearson's time as Prime Minister, his Liberal minority governments introduced universal health care, student loans, the Canada Pension Plan, the Order of Canada, and the new Flag of Canada. -
National Medicare Act
Canada's national health insurance program, often referred to as "Medicare", is designed to ensure that all residents have reasonable access to medically necessary hospital and physician services, on a prepaid basis. Instead of having a single national plan, we have a national program that is composed of 13 interlocking provincial and territorial health insurance plans, all of which share certain common features and basic standards of coverage. -
Pierrre Truedeau Prime Minister
was the 15th Prime Minister of Canada from April 20, 1968 to June 4, 1979, -
October Crisis
was a series of events triggered by two kidnappings of government officials by members of the Front de libération du Québec (FLQ) during October 1970 in the province of Quebec, mainly in the Montreal metropolitan area. The circumstances ultimately culminated in the only peacetime use of the War Measures Act in Canada's history, invoked by Governor General of Canada Roland Michener at the direction of Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, having been requested by the Premier of Quebec, Robert Bourassa -
End of Vietnam war
Near the end USA reduced its combat troups and sent out more air troops hoping to bomb them into submission. -
Nisga Treaty
The Nisga'a Treaty is a negotiated agreement between the Nisga'a Nation, the Government of British Columbia (B.C.) and the Government of Canada. The last step needed to give legal effect to the Treaty took place on April 13, 2000, when Parliament passed the Nisga'a Final Agreement Act. The Nisga'a Treaty is the first modern-day treaty in B.C. and is the fourteenth modern treaty in Canada to be negotiated since 1976. -
Immigration Act
It focused on who should be allowed into Canada, not on who should be kept out. The act came into force in 1978, along with new immigration regulations. This act gave more power to the provinces to set their own immigration laws and defined "prohibited classes" in much broader terms -
USSR invades Afghanistan
he Soviet war in Afghanistan lasted nine years from December 1979 to February 1989. Part of the Cold War, it was fought between Soviet-led Afghan forces against multi-national insurgent groups called the Mujahideen, mostly composed of two alliances – the Peshawar Seven and the Tehran Eight. -
Quiet Revolution
was the 1960s period of intense change in Quebec, Canada, characterized by the effective secularization of society, the creation of a welfare state (état-providence), and realignment of politics into federalist and sovereignist factions. -
Brian Mulroney becomes PM
was leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada from 1983 to 1993 -
Meech Lake Accord
was a package of proposed amendments to the Constitution of Canada negotiated in 1987 by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney and the ten provincial premiers. It was intended to persuade the government of Quebec to endorse the 1982 constitutional amendment and increase support in Quebec for remaining within Canada. Its rejection had the effect of energizing support for Quebec sovereignty. -
Constitution Act
The act was introduced as part of Canada's process of patriating the constitution, introducing several amendments[1] to the British North America Act, 1867, and changing the latter's name in Canada to the Constitution Act, 1867. Elizabeth II, as Queen of Canada, brought the act into effect with a proclamation she signed in Ottawa on April 17, 1982. -
Jean Sauve
was a Canadian journalist, politician, and stateswoman who served as Governor General of Canada, the 23rd since Canadian Confederation. -
Camadian Multiculturism act
The federal government, under Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, declared in 1971 that Canada would adopt multicultural policy.[1] Canada would recognize and respect its society included diversity in languages, customs, religions, and so on. In 1982 multiculturalism was recognized by section 27 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. The Canadian Multiculturalism Act was then enacted by Prime Minister Brian Mulroney. -
oka standoff
he Oka Crisis was a land dispute between a group of Mohawk people and the town of Oka, Quebec, Canada which began on July 11, 1990 and lasted until September 26, 1990. One person died as a result. The dispute was the first well-publicized violent conflict between First Nations and the Canadian government in the late 20th century. -
Canada enters gulf war
was a war waged by coalition forces from 34 nations led by the United States against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion and annexation of Kuwait. -
Charlottetown Accord
was a package of proposed amendments to the Constitution of Canada, proposed by the Canadian federal and provincial governments in 1992. It was submitted to a public referendum on October 26 of that year, and was defeated. -
Territory of Nunivat
is the largest, northernmost and newest territory of Canada. It was separated officially from the Northwest Territories on April 1, 1999, via the Nunavut Act[7] and the Nunavut Land Claims Agreement Act,[8] though the boundaries had been contemplatively drawn in 1993. The creation of Nunavut resulted in the first major change to Canada's political map since the incorporation of the new province of Newfoundland and Labrador in 1949. -
Canada Joins Nafta
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), came into effect on January 1, 1994, creating the largest free trade region in the world, generating economic growth and helping to raise the standard of living for the people of all three member countries. By strengthening the rules and procedures governing trade and investment, the NAFTA has proved to be a solid foundation for building Canada’s prosperity and has set a valuable example of the benefits of trade liberalization for the rest of the -
Kyoto Accord
Debates surrounding the implementation of Kyoto in Canada are informed by the nature of relationships between national, provincial, territorial and municipal jurisdictions. The federal government can negotiate multilateral agreements and enact legislation to respect their terms. However, the provinces have jurisdiction in terms of energy and therefore, to a large extent— climate change. In 1980, when the National Energy Program was introduced, the country was almost torn apart, deeply dividing t