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Espionage in the Cold War describes the intelligence gathering activities during the Cold War between NATO and the Warsaw Pact. Because each side was preparing to fight the other, intelligence on the opposing side's intentions, military, To gather this information, the two relied on a wide variety of military and civilian agencies.
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Canada has gone on many peacekeeping operations since the beggining of the cold war. They have assisted many countries in solving conflicts, in total Canada has embarked on 16 peacekeeping missions over the years.
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The war in Korea was the result of political divide in the country, following the end of world war II.
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This event was a crisis because the Egyption presedent Nasser nationalized the suez canal causeing the British to be unhappy, this lead to the Soviet Union getting invoved and makeing threats against Paris and London. The USA also made threats to flood the British market wish all the poundage they had.
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The growing threat of Soviet attack caused the USA and Canada to invest more in thier military defences with programs such as NORAD, NATO, and the Avro Arrow.
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the USA captured photographic proof that the Soviets had a missle base in Cuba this caused the USA to panick.
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The nuclear question was the question of if Canada should aquire nuclear wepons in order to protect itself and be better prepared if they shouold go to war.
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contras were groups of rebels representing different political views. the USA government initially supported the argintinian dictatorship.
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The summit series was the first competition between the Soviet Uninon and the NHL. Canada won the series 4 games to 3 with 1 tie.
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the soviets were engaged in a 9 year war in Afghanistan during the 1980's
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The USA boycotted the 1980 summer olympics because the soviet union invaded afghanistan. in the 1984 games the soviet union did the same.
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This was an initiative created by Ronald Reagan to protect the USA from nuclear balistic missiles.
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Gorbachev lead Russia out of the clutches of communism.
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The Berlin Wall came down when east and west Germany got sick of the segregation and crossed the wall.
