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Quebec Padlock Law
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-Protect Canada from communist propaganda
-Gave police authority to close down meeting places that are suspected of promoting communism propaganda
-Gave the Attorney General widespread power to persecute any communists people. (Jehovah's witnesses, Jews, ...)
-CBC's a peoples history comfort and fear episode: explains and talks about the baby boom and events of the Cold War -
Spies in Canada: Gouzenko Affair
-Igor Gouzenko was born in the Soviet Union in 1919
-He worked for the Soviet Union Embassy in Ottawa
-He steals the secrets of the atomic bomb
-He offered Canadian government information on Soviet spies in exchange of protection
-He gave Canada the knowledge of the spies and stopped the Soviet Union from being in a huge advantage -
Berlin Blockade
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-an attempt by the Soviet Union to limit the ability of France, Great Britain and the United States to travel to their sectors of Berlin.
-in Russian-occupied East Germany
-The western powers instituted an airlift that lasted nearly a year and delivered much-needed supplies and relief to West Berlin -
International Alliances: NATO
-established by 12 Western nations: the United States, Great Britain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Denmark, Italy, Luxembourg, Norway, Iceland, Canada, and Portugal
-The military alliance provided a collective self-defense against Soviet aggression
-This helped Canada to become more united with other countries, which helped Canada to become strong -
The Forgotten War - The Korean War
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-Canada participated on the side of the United Nations in the Korean War
-26 000 Canadians participated
-After the war Canadian troops remained for three years as military observers
-Canadian aircraft provided transport, supply and logistics
-516 Canadians died -
UN Peacekeeping: The Suez Crisis and Pearson wins Nobel Prize
-Pearson was a Canadian professor, historian, civil servant, statesman, diplomat, and politician
-in his role in resolving the Suez Crisis through the United Nations, Pearson was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
-he had "saved the world"
-critics accused him of betraying the motherland and Canada's ties with the UK
-considered as father of the modern concept of peacekeeping -
Continental Alliances: NORAD and DEW line
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-NORAD is a combined organization of the United States and Canada that provides aerospace warning, air sovereignty, and defense for North America
-DEW was a system of radar stations in the far northern Arctic region of Canada
-was set up to detect incoming Soviet bombers during the Cold War
-provide early warning of any sea-and-land invasion -
Sputnik and Canada's space program
-Sputnik was the first artificial Earth satellite
-The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit
-provided scientists with valuable information
-Sputniks success urged the United States and Canada to join the "space race" -
Avro Arrow and its Cancellation
-Avro Arrow was a delta-winged interceptor aircraft
-built by Avro Canada
-was intended to serve as the Royal Canadian Air Force's
-ordered to be created, and later cancelled, by leader John Diefenbaker
-14000 jobs were lost and thousands of dollars were wasted by the cancellation -
Diefenbaker, Bomarc missiles and nuclear warheads in Canada
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-Prime Minister John Diefenbaker wanted to create the Avro Arrow
-Because of cancellation he decided to make a new military machine
-The American Bomarc Missile for Canada's defense
-He promised Canada a bright future with many jobs
-plan ended negatively, resulting with an economy decrease and increase in unemployment
-Canada gained a military machine -
The Cuban Missile Crisis
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-was a 14 day confrontation between the Soviet Union and Cuba against the United States
-The crisis is seen as the moment in which the Cold War came closest to turning into a nuclear conflict
-American spies found soviet missile sites in Cuba
-those missiles were able to be launched at major cities in North America
-John F. Kennedy proposed to create a blockade around Cuba
-plan was successful therefore protecting Canada -
Vietnam War & Draft Dodgers in Canada
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-Draft Dodgers were young american men who fled the U.S to escape military service during the Vietnam War
-many came to Canada
-The population of Canada increased -
Canada-soviet hockey series
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-Top Russian team and top Canadian team made from NHL players played hockey against eachother
-The game was tied, until Paul Henderson scored the winning point for Canada
-This gave Canada a lot of National pride -
The Fall of the Berlin Wall
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-The fall of the Berlin wall was probably the most signified part of the end of the cold war
-The first border opening occurred at Bornholmer Strasse
-when the news spread around a huge number of people went to the berlin wall and celebrated -
The Fall of the Soviet Union
-The Soviet Union officially came to an end
-split into republics: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgystan, Latvia, Lithuania, Moldova, Russian Federation, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Ukraine and Uzbekistan
-Its collapse was seen by the west as a victory for freedom
-end of the Cold War
