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The Use of The Atomic Bomb
On this day the first atomic bomb (Little Boy) was dropped over the cit of Hiroshima. Approximately 80,000 people are killed as a direct result of the blast, and another 35,000 are injured. At least another 60,000 would be dead by the end of the year from the effects of the fallout. -
The Gouzenko Affaire
On the evening of September 5th, 1945, Gouzenko left the embassy carrying a large number of secret documents. His intention was to defect and turn these documents over to the Canadian authorities. These documents apparently revealed information that showed a network of spies (10 Canadian, 1 British, totalling 9 men and 2 women) operating in Canada. These spies were working as Canadian civil servants while simultaneously working for Soviet intelligence -
The Formation of the UN
The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization established 24 October 1945 to promote international co-operation -
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The Formation of NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), 1949. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created in 1949 by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union. -
The Korean War
The Korean War was a war between North and South Korea, in which a United Nations force led by the United States of America fought for the South, and China fought for the North, which was also assisted by the Soviet Union -
The Warsaw Pact Formation
The Warsaw Treaty Organization (also known as the Warsaw Pact) was a political and military alliance established on May 14, 1955 between the Soviet Union and several Eastern European countries. -
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a long, costly armed conflict that pitted the communist regime of North Vietnam and its southern allies, known as the Viet Cong, against South Vietnam and its principal ally, the United States. -
Suez Crisis
The 1956 Suez Crisis was a military and political conflict in Egypt that threatened to divide the United States and Britain, potentially hurting the Western military alliance that had won the Second World War. -
The Formation of NORAD
NORAD is the combined effort of the U.S.A and Canada to provide aerospace protection for both countries -
The Cancellation of the Avro Arrow
The Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow was a delta-winged interceptor aircraft, armed with AIM-4 Falcon and AIM-7 Sparrow missiles, designed and built by Avro Canada as the culmination of a design study that began in 1953. The Arrow is considered to have been an advanced technical and aerodynamic achievement for the Canadian aviation industry. The CF-105 (Mark 2) held the promise of near-Mach 2 speeds at altitudes of 50,000 feet (15,000 m) and was intended to serve as the Royal Canadian Air Force's primar -
The Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 was a direct and dangerous confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War and was the moment when the two superpowers came closest to nuclear conflict. -
The SALT Treaty
Nixon and Soviet General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev signed the ABM Treaty and interim SALT agreement on May 26, 1972, in Moscow. For the first time during the Cold War, the United States and Soviet Union had agreed to limit the number of nuclear missiles in their arsenals. -
The Strategic Defence Initiative
The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI), also known as Star Wars, was a program first initiated on March 23, 1983 under President Ronald Reagan. -
The Fall of The Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall: The Fall of the Wall. On November 9, 1989, as the Cold War began to thaw across Eastern Europe, the spokesman for East Berlin's Communist Party announced a change in his city's relations with the West. -
The Break Up of the Soviet union
This is when the Soviet Uniion dissolved into 15 different counties namely Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania as "free" countries. Armenia, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Moldova, and Ukraine were listed as "partly free." Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, and Uzbekistan were listed as "not free."