Quebec's Padlock Law

By cottrelle

  • Quebec's Padlock Law

    The Quebec Padlock law gave police
    the power to seal off any property where communist literature or
    activity was suspected. Premier Maurice Duplessis introduced the
    Quebec Padlock Act in 1937 to give police the power to seal off any
    property where communist literature or activity was suspected

  • Spies In Canada: Gouzenko Affair

    CBCRussian man named Igor Gouzenko worked in Soviet Embassy in Ottawa in 1943. He learned that Soviet intellegence operated several spy networks in Canada and other western countries. One of the best things these networks could do was get intel on the weapons and bombs. In 1945 he was being sent back to Russia with his family but he offered the Canadian government secret documents exposing work of the Soviet spies. In return he asked for protection.

  • Berlin Blockade

    The Soviets wanted full control over Berlin but the oppposing side did not want to give it up. Therefore they established a wall in the middle of the day, very quickly and at that point in time depending on which side of the wall you were on, that is what side you stayed on.

  • NATO

    Several nations formed the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). NATO is a defence pact intented to protect memeber agaisnt further Soviet agression.

  • "The Forgotten War"

    puckwarOn June 25, 1950, the Communist
    forces of North Korea, with backing from the Soviet Union, invaded
    their neighbour to the south. President Harry S. Truman ordered
    American troops to the Korean peninsula where they were soon joined by
    soldiers from 15 other United Nations member countries including
    Canada. Suddenly the Cold War was a lot hotter. Things got really bad
    when the Chinese rushed in. After three years, the fighting ended with the signing of an armistice on July 27, 1953. No peace

  • Diefenbaker, Bomarc missiles and nuclear warheads in Canada

    Diefenbaker was the 13th prime minister of Canada. In the fall of 1958 Prime Minister Diefenbaker's Conservative government announced an agreement with the US to deploy in Canada 2 squadrons of the American ramjet-powered "Bomarc" antiaircraft missile. This controversial defence decision was one of many flowing from the 1957 NORAD agreement with the US (http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/articles/bomarc-missile-crisis).

  • Sputnik and Canada's Space Program

    Soviets launched the first sputnik sattelite into space in 1957. This device orbitted the earth and could be used to deliver nuclear war head. Canada then later put a sattelite up. Eventually they had enough warheads to blow up the planet.

  • The Cuban Missle Crisis

    CrisisFrom communist city Cuba, missiles could be launched at North America. President Kennedy quickly imposed a naval blockade around the island to stop Soviet ships from delivering missiles. People thought that a missile was going to be fired at any major city in the US at anytime.

  • Avro Arrow and its Cancellation

    avroThe Avro Arrow was a technically advanced fighter jet developed and built by Canadians. The cancellation of the Avro Arrow costed 14 000 Canadians their jobs.

  • Vietnam War & Draft Dodgers in Canada

    The Vietnam War struck somewhere between 1964 and 1975 between North Vietnam (Aided by the Soviet Union) and South Vietnam (Aided by the United States). It was fought in South Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. In Vietnam the war is also popularly known as "War against the Americans and to Save the Nation" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Draft_evasion). Canada did not want to participate in Vietnam and many who left were called Draft Dodgers.

  • Canada-Soviet Hockey Series

    Canada had trouble playing agaisnt some eastern teams espicially Russia. Canada and Russia set up a game consisting of many NHL players in 1972. This game was held in Russia and Paul Henderson scored at the dying second of the third to break a tied game and give the win to Canada.

  • The Fall of The Soviet Union

    The collapse of the Soviet Union at the end of the 1980's was a great blow to the hopes of revolutionaries. Why did it collapse? The primary causes were political and economic and they were the result of the culture of war. The major cause was losing the arms race agaisnt the western countries.

  • Continental Alliances: NORAD and DEW line

    NORAD is the North American Air Defence. The NORAD was an agreement for countries to defend one another because of how quickly the technology was developing in weapons. Canada permitted the Americans to build serveral defence installations in the Northwest Territories to create the Distant Early Warning system know as the Dew Line.

  • The Fall of The Berlin Wall

    The Berlin Wall was put up to seperate the country for the two sides. It was a great wall that stretched so no one could cross. Post-war after the fighting was done and the Soviet's had fallen, the wall was taken down. This remains a big piece of history in Berlin and many have pieces of the wall as artifacts.