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International Politics (e.g. Hungarian Revolution, recognizing Communist China, Nicaragua)
The Hungarian revolution expanded into a war of independence. The Imperial governor was forced to accept all 12 of their demands. -
Igor Gouzenko
The documents that he took from the embassy specified a Soviet spy ring operating in Canada. The first attempts were failures however this situation was kept silent for 5 months until he was held for interrogation and the spy ring became public internationally which became the signals for the cold war. Whenever he appeared in public he wore a bag covering his head. -
Berlin Airlift
All food, fuel and other essential goods were delivered by cargo planes for the people in West Berlin within the eleven-month period of the Cold War. All travelling access were blocked and American, British, and French parts of the city were secluded as they were trying to make it extremely difficult for the western governments to enter their part of the city after Germany. -
Korean War
The Korean War was because of the conflict between Communist and non-Communist forces in Korea. Rival governments were recognized and then the conflict between them became more stressed. On June 25, 1950 North Korean forces invaded South Korea. -
Role in Commonwealth (e.g. Colombo Plan)
The Colombo Plan is not for important and dependent responsibilities but it is an organization for involving help and assistance for the economic and social development of the area. -
Suez Crisis
The Suez Crisis was a diplomatic and military confrontation between Egypt as one, and Britain, France and Israel as the other. Other major roles were involved forcing Britain, France and Israel to with drawl. Israel bombed Cairo; Anglo-French forces withdrew before the end and Israeli forces stayed until March 1957. By April, the canal was reopened along with consequences. The bombing happened for the regain of western control of the canal and to remove Nasser from power. -
Continental defense (e.g. NATO, NORAD, Avro Arrow, DEW)
The Continental Defense was a system of radar stations throughout the far northern Arctic region of Canada, North Coast and Aleutian Islands of Alaska, Faroe Islands, Greenland, and Iceland. These stations were used to detect incoming Soviet bombers during the Cold War and also a warning of invasion and attack. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was so close to come to a nuclear war as the U.S. armed forces were more than ready and Soviet field commanders in Cuba were ready to use nuclear weapons to use to defend themselves but President John F. Kennedy and Premier Nikita Khrushchev stopped the war. -
Nuclear Question (e.g. Bomarc Missile Crisis, SALT agreement)
After the short intense crisis there came the most serious U.S.- Soviet confrontation of the Cold War. President Kennedy and his closest advisors put all of their attention upon this situation where the Kennedy- Khrushchev agreement took place. It had been extremely looked over and had been explained in many methods. -
Peacekeeping Missions (e.g. Cyprus & Congo)
In Cyprus, it was to prevent the fighting between the Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots from happening again and to help to maintain and restore the law and order and return to regular conditions. Ten years later the UN Security Council increases the mission to stop the later Cyprus dispute from a war. -
Canada-USSR Summit Series
The Summit Series was the first 8-game rivalry between the Soviet and an NHL-inclusive Canadian national ice hockey teams. The result was Canada for the victory with 4 games to 3 along with 1 tie. -
Nicaragua
The campaign was led by the Sandinista National Liberation Front which led to the violent banishing of that dictatorship in 1979. The revolution was very substantial in the unfamiliar policy for Nicaragua, Central America and the Americas. The civil war was one of the substitution wars in the Cold war. -
Afghanistan, 1980s
It was 9-year substitution war during the Cold war which involved the Soviet Union, assisting the Marxist-Leninist government of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan. A friendship treaty with the Soviet Union and the U.S. was signed on December 5, 1978 as well as on July 3, 1979, the first instruction for secret help to the enemies of the pro-Soviet government in Kabul was signed by U.S. President Jimmy Carter. -
Gorbachev Revolution – perestroika
Perestroika let more independent actions from the many ministries and introduces some market-life improvements. The reason of this was to make socialism work much more efficiently to more appropriately satisfy the needs of Soviet consumers. -
US Star Wars
The strategic defense initiative focused on their strategic defense rather than strategic offense. They were told to use ground and space-based systems to protect the U.S. from invasion. Their plan to strategize was criticized and called unrealistic. This was soon public in the mainstream media called “Star Wars”. -
Olympic Politics (e.g. Moscow, 1980 & Los Angles, 1984 boycotts)
The summer Olympics took place in this year in Los Angeles, California, U.S. The only other interested city was Tehran and they dropped their bid because of the Iranian political and social alterations the IOC gave Los Angeles the Games by default. -
Berlin Wall (fall)
The Berlin Wall was the divider between West Berlin and East Germany. Also it was the representative border between democracy and Communism during the Cold War.
