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Quebec's Padlock Law
A law that was made to exclude the province of Quebec from any communist propaganda. This was a significant event because the law stayed for 20 years, the law was discontinued in 1957. -
Spies in Canada: Gouzenko Affair
Igor Gouzenko was a cipher clerk for the soviet embassy to Canada. He stole 109 documents from the sonviet espionage to prove that there was a Russian spy in Canada. He told the Canadian government he would tell them all the Soviets secrets if the government would protect him. When he went out in public he wore a bag over his head for over 10 years to avoid punishment. Later he was relocated and his and his families identities were changed. This was significant because it triggered the cold war. -
Belin Blockade
The Berlin Blockade was an attempt by the Soviet Union to block Allies from the German city of Berlin in 1948 and 1949. It was significant to the cold war because it was a visible sign of the beginning of cold war between the USA and the Soviet Union. -
International Alliances: NATO
NATO was an alliance between five countries that all had to agree that if one of the countries was attacked by an outside country then the rest of the countries had to attack that country with full forces. -
"The Forgotten War"- The Korean War
The Korean War was a conflict between communist and non-communist forces in Korea. The policy was there to let communism stay where it existed but not let it spread over any other areas in the world. The significance of this war was that it was the first armed conflict of the Cold War. -
Continental Alliances: NORAD and DEW
NORAD attempted to detect and track all airborne man made objects by using an array of radar stations. The DEW Line was designed and built during the Cold War as the primary air defence warning line in case of an invasion of North America. They worked together for detection of any enemies. -
Vietnam War & Draft Dodgers in Canada
Canada did not participate in the Vietnam War and diplomatically it was "officially non-belligerent". American draft dodgers and military deserters who sought refuge in Canada during the Vietnam War started controversy among those wanting to immigrate to Canada, some was provoked by the Canadian government’s first refusal to admit those who could not prove that they had been discharged from military service. -
UN Peacekeeping: The Suez Crisis and Pearson wins Nobel Prize
The Suez Crisis was a conflict between Great Britain, France, Israel and Egypt. It was significance because it was one of the most controversial episodes of the 20th century. Pearson proposed the world’s very first peacekeeping force at the United Nations General Assembly. Using his greatly spread web of connections and decades of experience, he convinced the world assembly to make the UN force. -
Sputnik and Canada's Space Program
Sputnik was the first satellie that could automatically orbit the earth that the Soviet Union launched into space. It is significant event during the cold war because it has changed our lives globally with satellite- tv, radio etc. -
Diefenbaker, Bomarc Missiles and Nuclear Warheads in Canada
In 1958 the Progressive Conservative government of John Diefenbaker deployed 56 American-made Bomarc missiles in Ontario and Quebec. At first, the government did not inform the people that the missiles were nuclear. After the conservative party was ruled out, the liberals were elected and they accepted that missles were let out in Canadian soil. -
Avro Arrow and its Cancellation
The Avrow Arrow was a delta-winged interceptor aircraft. During it's production, the process of it being built stopped suddenly on Feburary 20th 1959 and put Avro out of business. It still raises a lot of debate and it is not entierly certain why the avro arrow was stopped during production to this day. -
The Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was the closest thing the world ever came to a nuclear war. A nuclear war was avoided thanks to President John F. Kennedy and Premier Nikita Khrushchev. If it wasn't for them, there is a possibility that a nuclear war would have occurred and that would have been a huge disaster for the world. -
Canada-Soviet Hockey Series
The Canada–USSR Series, now known as the Summit Series, or Super Series, was an eight-game series of ice hockey between the Soviet Union and Canada, held in September of 1972. It was the first competition between the Soviet national team and a Canadian team represented by professional players of the National Hockey League (NHL), -
The Fall of the Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was put in to position in the dead of night and for 28 years it kept the East Germans from fleeing into the West. It's distruction was exactly like when it was built, happened very quickly. It shocked the world coming down just as much as it did going up. It was taken down because they wanted to reunify Germany, which it did. -
The Fall of the Soviet Union
In December of 1991, the Soviet Union changed into fifteen separate countries. Its collapse was hailed by the west as a win for freedom, a triumph of democracy over totalitarianism, and the showing of the superiority of capitalism over socialism. The United States showed great joy as its nemy was brought to its knees This ended the Cold War, which had hovered over these two superpowers since the end of World War II.
