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The use of the Atomic Bomb
In August 1945, during the final stage of the Second World War, the United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. The two bombings, which killed at least 129,000 people, remain the only use of nuclear weapons for warfare in history. Canada participated in the Manhattan Project (Development of the atomic bomb) during the Second World War, when we supplied and refined uranium for use in U.S. facilities. -
Gouzenko Affair
Gouzenko exposed Joseph Stalin's efforts to steal nuclear secrets, and the technique of planting sleeper agents. The Gouzenko Affair is often known as a triggering event of the Cold War. He found documents on Soviet espionage activities in the West. This forced Prime Minister Mackenzie King to call a Royal Commission to investigate espionage in Canada. -
Formation of the United Nations
The United Nations is an intergovernmental organization created to promote international co-operation. It replaced the League of Nations, and was created following the Second World War to prevent any similar conflict. At its founding, the United nations had 51 members and now has 193. Canada is a part of the UN and has been since it was started. -
formation of NATO
In 1949, the the United States and 11 other Western nations to formed the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) because of fear of further communist expansion. The Soviet Union and its other communist nations in Eastern Europe started thier own rival alliance, the Warsaw Pact, in 1955. Canada bacame a part of NATO. -
The Korean War
The Korean War was a war between North and South Korea. The United Nations force led by the US fought for the South Korea, and China fought for North Korea, along with the Soviet Union. The war started becaause of the division of Korea at the end of World War II and the global tensions of the Cold War. Canada participated on the side of the United Nations in the Korean War, and had 26,000 Canadian soildiers participating. -
formation of the Warsaw Pact
The Soviet Union and seven of its European satellites sign a treaty establishing the Warsaw Pact, a mutual defense organization that put the Soviets in command of the armed forces of the member states. canada was part of NATO, which rivaled against The Warsaw Pact. -
The Suez Crisis
The Suez Crisis was the invasion of Egypt in late 1956 by Israel, followed by Britain and France. It was a military and political confrontation in Egypt that threatened to divide the United States and Great Britain, potentially harming the Western military alliance that had won the Second World War. Lester B. Pearson, prime minister of Canada, won a Nobel Peace Prize for using the world’s first, large-scale United Nations peacekeeping force to slove the issue. -
Formation of NORAD
On August 1st, 1957 an agreement was announced about the formation of NORAD, a new organization that was to be formed between Canada and the United States for defence, also known as the North American Air Defence Agreement. t was creates to prevent soviet attacks that were expected to come over the arctic and across into Canada and the U.S.. -
The Cancellation of the Avro Arrow
The Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow wa an aircraft, designed and built by Avro Canada as a design study that began in 1953. The Arrow is considered to have been a very advanced technical and aerodynamic achievement for the Canadian aviation industry. n the post-Second World War period, the Soviet Union began developing a capable fleet of long-range bombers with the ability to deliver nuclear weapons across North America and Europe -
The Cuban Missile Crisis
The Cuban Missile Crisis was a 13-day (October 14–28, 1962) confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union over Soviet missiles that where moved into position for military action in Cuba. This posed a threat to the United States and Canada, as it brought the world close to a full out nuclear war. -
SALT Treaty
The Soviet Lesader, General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev, signed the a Treaty and the SALT( Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty) agreement on May 26, 1972, in Moscow. It was the first time during the Cold War, that the United States and Soviet Union agreed and decided to limit the number of nuclear missiles. -
The Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a part of the Cold Warthat occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. This war was fought between North Vietnam—supported by the Soviet Union, China and other communist allies—and the government of South Vietnam—supported by the United States and other anti-communist allies. -
The Strategic Defence Inititive
President Reagan of the US announced his proposal for the Strategic Defense Initiative in 1983, SDI had the purpouse of being a wide-ranging missile defense system that would protect the United States from nuclear attacks from the Soviet Union or other countries with ballistic missiles, essentially keeping them safe from nuclear weapons, Canada was asked to be a part of it and help out with the system. -
The fall of the Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a barrier that divided Berlin from 1961 to 1989 when it was opened. The Wall served to prevent the massive emigration and defection in East Germany and the communists after the World War II period. It came to symbolize a barrier that separated Western Europe and the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War. -
Break up of the Soviet Union
The dissolution of the Soviet Union was happend on December 26, 1991, because of the declaration (no. 142-Н) of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union. They wanted to acknowledging the independence of Soviet republics and create the Commonwealth of Independent States.
