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Gouzenko Affair
World discovers double agent Igor Gouzenko as a spy and double agent for Canada who betrayed the USSR. -
Canada joins the U.N.
Canada joins the U.N. after World War 2 and models their foreign policy after the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights in the coming years. -
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1945 - Present
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The Cold War Begins.
The Iron Curtain speech is spoken and the Cold War begins. -
Berlin Airlift
Planes are flown into West Berlin and supplies are given to the non-communist people. -
Canada joins NATO
Canada joined NATO to help promote the stability of the North Atlantic area and to safeguard the freedom of its people, based on democracy, individual liberty and international law. -
Canada Joins Korean War
Three warships from the Royal Canadian Navy are sent to Korea to provide naval support for the Republic of Korea. -
Canadian Soldiers in Cyprus to peace keep.
Canada was to keep peace between Greek and Turkish forces in the Meditaraneaan. -
Suez Crisis
Britain and its allies wage war against Egypt. -
Canada and USA create NORAD.
At its creation in 1957, NORAD was given operational control over the vast U.S. and Canadian continental air defence forces. -
Canadas Military is unified.
In 1964 the Canadian government decided to merge the Royal Canadian Air Force, the Royal Canadian Navy and the Canadian Army to form the unified Canadian Armed Forces -
Canada recognizes Communist China.
Canada recognizes communist china as a major force of the spread of communism in east asia. -
Canada and Vietnam
Canada did not officially fight in the Vietname war, but sent a limited number of troops to help enforce the Paris Peace Accord. -
Canada enters Gulf War
Canada joins 34 nations against Iraq to end the terrorization of the Iraq Dictator Saddam Hussein. -
The Cold War Ends
The Cold War ends. It almost resulted into a nuclear fallout, but Russia backed down and Democracy won. -
Canadian soldiers in Bosnia to peace keep
Canadian soldiers had beaten and killed a young boy. These soldiers were thrown into jail. The muslims wanted to gain land in Bosnia. Croatia also wanted land. The UN moved in to keep peace. This operation also got many peacekeepers kidnapped. -
Canada and the Crisis in Rwanda.
Canadian peace keepers fail to stop the genocide in Rwanda which got over a million tutsies killed. -
9/11 and the war on terror
Osama Bin Ladens terrorist organization Al-Qaeda crashed two jet liners on the morning of September 11, 2001. This angered all of North America and the war on terror had begun. -
NATO + Canada Enters Afghanistan
NATO+ Canada Enter the war on terror. -
Saddam Hussein is Executed.
Saddam Hussein was executed on December 30th, 2006 by hanging. -
Osama Bin Laden dies
Osama Bin Laden was killed on an operation of over two dozen Navy seals in a compound in Pakistan.