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Quebecs Padlock Law
Canadians in Quebec had begun writing about communism and were even writing newspapers supporing it. The Government saw this as a threat to democracy and action needed to be taken. Now it was legal for police to lock you in your house if they believed you were communist or supporting communism -
Spies in Canada and the Gouzenko affair
During the cold war spies were used by both sides to obtain valuable information. Gouzenko was a russian spy who fleed to canada and gave secret information in return for his saftey.18/39 suspects were arrested because of him. Gouezenko died of natural causes in canada despite many assanation attempts. -
Berlin Blockade
The blockade was an attempt by the soviet union to get the allies to give up Berlin by blockading it. The blockade lasted until may 1949.The Soviet plan failed because all the supplies were simply airlifted in.It did succed in raising tensions between the USSR and the allies. Canada and the UNited States began talks on how to defend North America. -
Internatonal Alliances: NATO
In 1949 many ddemocratic countries formed the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) because of fear of the Soviet Union spreading communism. This cause the rival soviets to create an alliance of their own the warsaw pact. This was an alliance between several communist countries to counter NATO. Nato and the warsaw pact were the two main alliances fighting in the cold war. -
"The Forgotten war"The korean war
Canada and the Korean war</a>in 1950, Communist North Korea and Communist China decided to attack democratic South Korea. This was a problem because the U.S felt this was a war against democracy. They urged members of the United Nations including canada to join the war and around 20 countries participated. Over 1000 Canadians were wounded and 406 died and Canadian troops stayed in Korea until 1955 to maintain truce
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Suez Crisis
The Suez Canal, in Egypt, was a waterway connecting the Mediterranean and Red Seas on the way to the Indian Ocean.Egyptian leaders took over the Suez Canal which meant Britain and France lose control over the region. isreali british and french soldiers attempted to regain the canal by force. canadian born lester pearson created a UN peacekeeping solution to the conflict. 800 canadian soldiers were sent with the UN detachment . Leaster Pearson was awarded the nobel peace prize for his work. -
Launch of Sputnik and Canadas space program
Space program CanadaThe Soviet Union successfully launched the world's first artificial satellite in 1957 called Sputnik -It was about the size of a beach ball, and took 98 minutes to orbit around the earth on its elliptical path -The launch of Sputnik led to the creation of NASA the space race and canadas space program-Canada entered the race in 1962 when the satiellite aloutte was launched making us the third nation in space -
Pearson Wins Nobel Peace Prize
Lester B. Pearson was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1957 for finding a solution to the Suez Crisis . It was a great honour for Canada and Led to him becoming the Prime Minister in 1963 -
Continental Alliances: NORAD and DEW
NoradMilitary technology improved rapidly in the 1950's with the development of long-range missiles -The North American Air Defence (NORAD) was signed in 1958 and the treaty stated that Canada and the U.S, would defend each other -Americans built several defence installations in the North West Territories called the Distant Early Warning or the dew line which can pick up approaching enemy aircraft and missiles from 4800 km away -
Vietnam War and Draft Dodgers
Vietnam In actionThe Vietnam War set Communist North Vietnam against South Vietnam with the U.S. millions of peolple were killed in the war almost half of them were civiliansDraft dodgers were people who refused to comply with conscription during the war Around 30,000 draft dodgers fled to Canada to avoid the draft while anti-war movements were going on in the U.S. The war ended in 1975 as a communist victory. -
Avro Arrow
Avro Arrow 2012?The avro arrow was a canadian designed and made fighter jet which was thought to be the most advanced fighter jet ever built at the time. The government saw it as a money drain and cancelled it and at the same time putting 10000 canadians out of a job. The cancellation is still argued about today and is a controversal topic in canadian history -
Cuban missle Crisis
Defcon 2 In 1962 tensions were high between soviets and the NATO. American spy planes had spotted missle installations on cuba and had identified boats carrying nuclear warheads to cuba. North America was in panic the missles were in range of u.s mainland. Eventually the boats were sent back but it is known as the highest moment of tension in the entire cold war. -
Summit series
Final gamein 1972 eight games were played between the soviet all stars and team canada. The canadians fought through to the last game win an winner takes all tie breaker, which served to boost Canadian nationalism and was also seen as part of our fight against communism. -
Fall of the berlin wall
opening of the berlin wallThe barrier between west germany and east germany had been broken as part of an agreement between russia and Nato. This was seen as the end of the cold war. -
Fall of the soviet Union
Soviet Collapse Many states in the soviet union had grown discontented with the soviet rule. The opposition used the poor economy to strengthen their ideals of democracy. Eventually communism lost and the soviet union was broken up. After 45 years of of communism rule the soviets had lost the cold war and the arms race.
