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Canadas role in the Cold War
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Padlock Law
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Gouzenko affair
Igor Sergeyevich Gouzenko was a cipher clerk for the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa. In 1945 Igor left the embassy carrying a large number of documents that revealed information that showed a network of spies. He tried to defect them and hand them into the Canadian authorities but nobody took him seriously. -
Berlin Blockade
In 1945, the Allies decided to split Germany into four zones of occupation. Britain, France and America united their zones into a new country, West Germany. They introduced a new currency, which they said would help trade. Stalin cut off all rail and road links to West Berlin - the Berlin Blockade. The west saw this as an attempt to starve Berlin into surrender, so they decided to supply West Berlin by air. The Berlin Blockade lasted 318 days. -
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Orginization)
This organization is a system of defence whereby its member’s states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party. -
Korean War
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea launched a surprise attack on South Korea. This started a war that would kill more than 3,000,000 lives. The soviets occupied the north side and the U.S. troops occupied the south side. They fought close to the 38th parallel until it was stalemate. -
Vietnam War & Draft Dogers in Canada
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The Suez Crisis
Eygept nationalized the Suez Canal without compensation when the French and British owned it. Then France and Britain launched a military operation to secure the Canal, even though the Canal was captured, US pressure forced Britain and France to withdraw their forces. -
Diefenbaker and nuclear warheads
john george diefenbaker orderd the U.S. to defend Canada with their missles. Even though we didnt use them. -
NORAD and DEW line
The North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) is a United States and Canadian organization that detects anything in space that in coming over to towards North America. They detect it by using the DEW (Distant Early Warning) line which has radar stations that cover the border of north America. -
Sputnik
The Soviet Union launched a satellite called sputnik. The US thought they were the leader in space technology so when the soviets were the first to send something into space they got jealous. This started a space race and this led up to Apollo and the landing on the moon, which eventually ended the Sputnik crisis -
Avro Arrow
the Avro Arrow was a fighter jet that was built to prtotect from the soviets and their long range bombs they had built. this plane got cancelled because apperetly they cost to much to make so they got rid of anything that had to do with the plane. it is still known to be one of the best fighter jets today -
The cuban missile crisis
The Soviet Union was desperately behind the United States in the arms race. Their missiles couldn’t go as far as the U.S. missiles could. So the Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev asked Cuba if they could put missiles on their island to scare the U.S. as the missiles were coming over seas, President John F. Kennedy told them that if they pass a border to Cuba they will fire missiles at them so they turned around and left. -
Canada-Soviet hockey series
Soviet teams had totally dominated international hockey for the previous 10 years. Then for the first time they played the Canadians in an 8 game series. They played until the 8th game and Canada scored with 34 seconds left to win. -
The fall of the Berlin Wall
The fall of the Berlin Wall happened nearly as suddenly as its rise. At the end of the Cold War Germans used picks and hammers to take down the wall and let the people free to cross the border. There was an huge celebration along the Berlin Wall, with people hugging, kissing, singing, cheering, and crying. -
The Fall of the Soviet Union
The Soviet Union disintegrated into fifteen separate countries. This signaled the end of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States.
