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V.E. Day
Victory in Europe day, also known as V.E. Day. May 7th (May 8th in commenwealth Countries) 1945, 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. -
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Canada and the Cold War
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The United Nations is Created
The United Nations ( also known as the U.N.) was founded. Canada, The United States of America, The United Kingdom, France, and other countries such as Communist Russia. The U.N. was intended to be a peace keeping/making international force, to prevent agression. -
V.J. Day
Victory over Japan (also known as, Victory in the Pacific Day or V.J. Day) On September 2, 1945, a formal surrender ceremony was performed in Tokyo Bay, Japan, aboard the battleship USS Missouri preceding the 6th and 9th of August 1945, when the United States dropped atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, marking the end of World War II. -
The Creation of NATO
The Creation of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, a military alliance between Western European Countries and North America in April 1949 -
Communist Takeover of China
Mao Zedong leads the Communist party of China over taking the Republic of China party, forcing the ROC retreat to Taiwan. -
The Korean 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 of the United Nations) and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (supported by the People's Republic of China, with military and material aid from the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics) -
The Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact was a mutual defense treaty between eight communist states of Eastern Europe in existence during the Cold War -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was the struggle between nationalist forces attempting to unify the country of Vietnam under a communist government and the United States (with the aid of the South Vietnamese) attempting to prevent the spread of communism. -
The Suez Crisis
Egypt's atepmt in nationlizing the Suez Canal, a international man made trade route that the British and French had made dubbed being the "The Highway to India" shortening the route of trade to the Indian Sea, and The Pacific. Lester B, Pearson organized the United Nations Emergency Force to resolve the Suez Crisis, diffusing further aggresion -
The Berlin Wall is Built
The Berlin Wall was a barrier constructed by the German Democratic Republic (East Germany) starting on 13 August 1961, that completely cut off West Berlin from surrounding East Germany and from East Berlin. This became the forefront for the battle of Communist Containment for the Americans and other Democratic Nations. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest the world ever came to nuclear war. The United States armed forces were at their highest state of readiness ever and Soviet field commanders in Cuba were prepared to use battlefield nuclear weapons to defend the island if it was invaded. -
USSR invades Afghanistan
The Soviet war in Afghanistan was a proxy war between the Soviet led Democratic Republic of Afghanistan and The Afghan Mujahideen guerrilla movement and foreign "Arab–Afghan" volunteers, supported by America and other Democratic powers such as Canada etc. -
The Fall of the Berlin Wall
a two-day long party in the streets of Berlin. People began taking hammers and chisels to the wall, tearing it down piece by piece (and saving many pieces for souvenirs -- you can still buy them in German gift shops). Thousands of hammer blows finally destroyed the wall. Every East German who entered the West was given a "welcome gift" of 100 marks. Was the first fall of Communisim in a Communist state, striking a major win for the democratic west.
