Cold war

By darpoo
  • Padlock Law

    Padlock Law

    Act that stopped the use of Communist propoganda
    Breaking the act would result in padlocking.
  • Gouzenko Affair

    Gouzenko Affair

    Igor Gouzenko defected with 109 Soviet documents
    Gouzenko granted fake identity to hide from Soviet spies
  • Berlin Blockade

    Berlin Blockade

    Soviet Union blocks railroads and supply line to Western Allies
    Forced the use of airplanes to deliver supplies
  • NATO

    NATO

    Member states agree to mutual defense in response to an attack by any external party.
    Served as a defense system
  • Korean war

    Korean war

    War between current day North Korea and South Korea
    Started with invasion of South Korea by North Korea
  • Avro Arrow

    Avro Arrow

    Designed as a primary interceptor for the RCAF
    Fastest plane built by Canada at the time
  • Distant Early Warning (Dew)

    Distant Early Warning (Dew)

    Was designed and built as the primary air defence warning line in case of an over-the-pole invasion of the North America.
    Attack, over the North Pole by enemy nuclear bombers and missiles was considered a real threat to the security of the United States
  • Vietnam war

    Vietnam war

    Northern Vietnam victorius
    South vietnam was annexed by South Vietnam
    Communist governments own Cambodia, Laos and South Vietnam
  • Suez Crisis

    Suez Crisis

    Diplomatic and military confrontation
    Ended with UN ceasefire
    Ended Britatin's role as a superpower
  • Launch of Sputnik

    Launch of Sputnik

    First artificial Earth satellite
    Big fear that it could aid Russian efforts in the cold war (Bombs)
  • NORAD

    NORAD

    A joint organization of Canada and the United States that provides aerospace warning, air sovereignty, and defense for the two countries
  • Cuban missile crisis

    Cuban missile crisis

    Soviet retract bombs from Cuba
    US forbidden to invade Cuba
    Castro's leadership strenthened
  • Summit Series

    Summit Series

    IIHF series between Canada and the Soviet Union
    Canada won the series 5-3
  • Fall of the Berlin Wall

    Fall of the Berlin Wall

    No more East and West Germany
    Free to move around within Germany
  • Fall of the Soviet Union

    Fall of the Soviet Union

    Resulted in the splitting apart of the Soviet Union into seperate countries.
    Federal and Republican governments within the Soviet Union were obolished