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quebecs padlock law
-Act to protect the Province Against Communistic Propaganda
-Denied the right of freedom of speech to individuals
-first noticable attack on communism after world war 2 -
UN Peacekeeping
-26 states joined in the Declaration by the "United Nations", pledging themselves to continue their joint war effort and not to seek peace as separate entities -Towards the end of the war, USA President Franklin D Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin initiated a conference to take place in April 1945. Its purpose was to plan the charter of an organisation to promote peace, security, and economic development -
Gouzenko Affair
-The man in the hood
-His position gave him knowledge of Soviet espionage activities in the West
-Awakened the people of North America to the magnitude and the danger of Soviet espionage -
Berlin Blockade
-Was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War
-Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies' railway
-by April, the airlift was delivering more cargo than had previously been transported into the city by rail
-The success of the Berlin Airlift brought embarrassment to the Soviets who had refused to believe it could make a difference
-Blockade was lifted in May 1949 and resulted in the creation of two separate German states -
International Alliances NATO
-North Atlantic Treaty Organization
-international alliance of 26 countries of Europe and North America
-recognizes the importance of a stronger and more capable European defence
-Marked a significant change for the United States -
The Forgoten War The Korea War
-The Communist forces of North Korea, with backing from the Soviet Union, invaded their neighbor to the south.
-Things got really bad when the Chinese rushed in.
-After three years, the fighting ended with the signing of an armistice on July 27, 1953
-There was no victor. Peace was never declared. -
Vietnam War & Draft Dodgers
-fought between North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government of South Vietnam, supported by the United States and other anti-communist countries
-The U.S. government viewed involvement in the war as a way to prevent a communist takeover of South Vietnam as part of their wider strategy of containmen
-U.S. military involvement ended on 15 August 1973 as a result of the Case–Church Amendment passed by the U.S. Congress -
Centeral Alliences NORAD & DEW
-DEW Distant Early Warning Line
-a system of radar stations in the far northern Arctic region of Canada
-NORAD North American Aerospace Defense Command
-new approach to defence for the cold war -
Sputnik and Canadas space program
-The Soviet Union launched
-Surprise success
-People were affraid of the part that launched it because it could send rocket launchers a far distance
-they were affraid it would spy on other countries -
Avro Arrow and it Cancellation
-In the 1940s and early 1950s the British were far ahead of the Americans in jet-engine design.
-PRIOR to December 1958 the Arrow was, as the USA was clearly aware, CANCELLED.
-a sleek white jet interceptor developed in Malton, Ontario -
Dietenbaker
-Bombarc misstles and nuclear warheadsin Canada
-the 13th Prime Minister of Canada, serving from June 21, 1957, to April 22, 1963.
- In 1957, he led the party to its first electoral victory in 27 years
- first aboriginal member of the Senate
-the most heated moment of the Cold War
-Diefenbaker refused to put Canadian troops on alert, and deliberated for several days over raising the military awareness level
-Eventually Diefenbaker did agree to put Canadian troops on alert -
Cuban Mistle Crisis
-Known as the October crisis
-was a 13-day confrontation between the Soviet Union and Cuba on one side, and the United States on the other
-Nikita Khrushchev proposed the idea of placing Soviet nuclear missiles on Cuba to deter any future invasion attempt
-The United States considered attacking Cuba via air and sea, but decided on a military blockade instead
-Quarantine -
Canada Soviet Hockey Series
-In the game's last seconds, their hero Paul Henderson scored an epic goal
-The fast and skilled Soviets surprisingly showed up Team Canada in eight gruelling games that changed Canadian hockey forever
-became faster, better
-game one, Team Canada skated onto the ice self-admiring and mighty, only to be knocked down hard, 7-3, by the Soviet Union. -
fall of berlin wall
-begun with the building of the Wall in 1961
-about three decades until the Wall was torn down
-a member of the new East German government was asked at a press conference when the new East German travel law comes into force -
fall of soviet union
- the independence of all fifteen republics of the Soviet Union -Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev had resigned, declaring his office extinct, and handed over the Soviet nuclear missile launching codes to Russian President Boris Yeltsin -the Soviet flag was lowered from the Kremlin and replaced with the Russian tricolor -
