Canada and the Cold War

  • Ending of the Second world war

    Ending of the Second world war
    The day hitler commited suicide.The date when the World War II Allies formally accepted the unconditional surrender of the armed forces of Nazi Germany and the end of Adolf Hitler's Third Reich
  • The cration of the United Nations

    The cration of the United Nations
    he United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace.
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    Communist take control of China

    (DATE NOT ACURATE)The war began in April 1927, amidst the Northern Expedition,[7] and essentially ended when major active battles ceased in 1949–1950. However there is debate on whether the war has officially ended
  • The Creation of NATO

    The Creation of NATO
    The North Atlantic Treaty Organization or NATO also called the (North) Atlantic Alliance, 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.
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    The Koren War

    The Korean War was a war between the Republic of Korea (supported primarily by the United States of America, with contributions from allied nations under the aegis of the United Nations) and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea
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    The Warsaw pact

    The Warsaw Treaty Organization of Friendship, Cooperation, and Mutual Assistance , or more commonly referred to as the Warsaw Pact, was a mutual defense treaty between eight communist states of Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War.
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    The Vietnam war

    The Vietnam War was a Cold War-era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia
  • Lester Pearson diffuses the Suez Crisis

    Lester Pearson diffuses the Suez Crisis
    Lester Bowles "Mike" Pearson, was a Canadian professor, historian, civil servant, statesman, diplomat, and politician, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1957 for organizing the United Nations Emergency Force to resolve the Suez Canal Crisis.The Suez Crisis, also referred to as the Tripartite Aggression or Suez War was a diplomatic and military confrontation in late 1956 between Egypt on one side, and Britain, France and Israel on the other, with the United States, the Soviet Union and the United
  • The Berlin Wall was erected

    The Berlin Wall was erected
    The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic , that completely cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin.
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    The Cunan Missile Crisis

    The Cuban Missile Crisis – known as the October Crisis in Cuba and the Caribbean Crisis (Russian: Kарибский кризис) in the USSR – was a thirteen-day confrontation between the Soviet Union and Cuba on one side and the United States on the other
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    USSR invasion in Afghanistan

    The Soviet war in Afghanistan was a nine-year proxy war during the Cold war involving the Soviet Union, supporting the Marxist-Leninist government of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan against the Afghan Mujahideen guerrilla movement and foreign "Arab–Afghan" volunteers. The mujahideen received unofficial military and/or financial support from a variety of countries including the United States, Saudi Arabia.
  • The Berlin wall is destroyed

    The Berlin wall is destroyed
    The berlin was a sybol of communism. The destruction of the wall symbolized the end of communism.