HIS311Y 1945~

San Francisco Conference

Apr 25, 1945

COLD WAR

Period: Aug 15, 1945 to Dec 26, 1991

Japan Surrenders

Sep 2, 1945

Gouzenko Affair

Sep 5, 1945

Igor Gouzenko

Iron Curtain Speech

Mar 5, 1946

Gray Lecture

Jan 13, 1947

Leduc Alberta Oil Discovery

Feb 13, 1947

General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade

Oct 20, 1947

Marshall Plan

Apr 1, 1948

Creation of Israel

May 15, 1948

Lous St-Laurent Administration

Period: Nov 15, 1948 to Jun 21, 1957

North Atlantic Treaty

Apr 4, 1949

Soviet Atomic Bomb

Aug 29, 1949

Korean War breaks out

Jun 25, 1950

Geneva Conference and End of First Indochina War

Jul 21, 1954

Pipeline Debate

May 8, 1956

Suez Crisis

Jul 26, 1956

Hungarian Revolution of 1956

Oct 23, 1956

John Diefenbaker Administration

Period: Jun 21, 1957 to Apr 22, 1963

NORAD Agreement

Aug 1, 1957

BOMARC Missile Crisis

Oct 2, 1958

Cancellation of Avro Arrow

Feb 20, 1959

Congo

Jul 3, 1960

UNITED NATIONS OPERATION IN THE CONGO ONUC (July 1960 – June 1964

JFK becomes the president of the US

Jan 1, 1961

Columbia River Treaty signed

Jan 17, 1961

Berlin Crisis

Apr 1, 1961

Bay of Pigs invasion

Apr 17, 1961

USSR Nuclear Bomb Test

Oct 30, 1961

Cuban Missile Crisis

Oct 22, 1962

Lester Pearson Administration

Period: Apr 22, 1963 to Apr 20, 1968

Creation of an External Affairs Task Force

Aug 1, 1963

Auto Pact signed

Jan 3, 1965

Pearson's Temple Univeristy Speech

Apr 4, 1965

Harmel Report

Jan 3, 1967

Charles De Gaulle visits Montreal

Jul 24, 1967

Prague Uprising

Jan 5, 1968

Publication of Federalism and International Relations

Feb 8, 1968

Foundation of Club of Rome

Apr 3, 1968

Pierre Trudeau Administration

Period: Apr 20, 1968 to Jun 3, 1979

Recognition of China

Oct 13, 1970

Nixon Shock

Aug 3, 1971

Third Option by Mitchell Sharps

Apr 3, 1972

Election of Parti Quebecois under Rene Levesque

Nov 15, 1976

Joe Clark Administration

Period: Jun 4, 1979 to Mar 2, 1980

Pierre Trudeau Administration

Period: Mar 3, 1980 to Jun 29, 1984

Quebec Referendum

May 20, 1980

National Energy Program

Oct 28, 1980

Strategic Defense Initiative

Mar 23, 1983

Brian Mulroney Administration

Period: Sep 17, 1984 to Jun 24, 1993

Shamrock Summit

Mar 3, 1985

Organisation internationale de la Francophonie

Nov 7, 1985

FTA agreement

Oct 3, 1987

Fall of Berlin Wall

Nov 9, 1989

Gulf War

Aug 2, 1990

Dissolution of Soviet Union

Dec 26, 1991

Kim Campbell

Period: Jun 25, 1993 to Nov 3, 1993

United Nations Assistance Mission For Rwanda

Aug 4, 1993

Jean Chretien Administration

Period: Nov 4, 1993 to Dec 11, 2003

NAFTA takes into effect

Jan 1, 1994

Kosovo Intervention

Jun 10, 1999

9/11

Sep 11, 2001

Iraq War breaks out

Mar 20, 2003

Paul Martin Administration

Period: Dec 12, 2003 to Feb 5, 2006

Stephen Harper Administration

Period: Feb 6, 2006 to Apr 2, 2013