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Cold War
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Quebec Padlock law
The Padlock law was put in place to protect citizens from communist propaganda and limit their knowledge on communism
The law was passed by the government of Maurice Duplessis
The act prohibited the use of buildings to propagate communism or bolshevism and also prohibited the use of any text to propagate communism or bolshevism -
Spies in Canada
On Spetember 5 1945 Igor Gouzenko released 109 documents on soviet spy actvities in the west
He exposed plans to steal nuclear weapons and plans to plant sleeper agents in canada
Gouzenko and his family were given another identity so they could live a safe life
This was important to canada because it may have saved us from russian spies getting information about our nuclear weapons -
Berlin Blockade
The Soviets blocked off all allied access points to west berlin inculding roads railways and waterways
The allies made over 200 000 airlifts in order to get supplies to the west berliners
Many allied airforces teamed up to complete these supply drops -
NATO
Alliance made originally by 11 countries that meant if any of the members were attacked other members would aid in defending them
Canada was one of these members -
Korean war
It essentialy was a war between south korea and north korea
South Korea was supported by the united nations and north korea was supported by the soviet union and china for a little while
After south korea was invaded by north korea the united nations sent trops (mostly american) to help the south korean people
After some back and forth the old border was reastablished and a DMZ was created
26 000 canadian troops were sent to korea -
Dew Line
The Distant Early Warning line was a series of radars in northern Canada Alaska that were put there by canada and the states
It was made to detect incoming soviet bombers and detect if a land invasion was coming -
Warsaw pact
It was a mutual defense treaty between 8 communist states in central and eastern europe
essentialy it was opposite to NATO -
UN Peacekeeping
UN peacekeeping is used "to help countries torn by conflict to create conditions for lasting peace"
The suez crisis was a war with egypt on one side and Isreal, France and Britain on the other side
The UN tried to get Isreal france and britain to withdrawel from egypt.
Canadian Lester Pearson won the nobel peace prize for his idea of "Peacekeepers" he wanted to deploy troops to keep peace between countries -
Vietnam War and Draft Dogers
An awful war between The states and north vietnam erupted
Many americans that did not want to be drafted fled to canada
Its estimated that around 50 000 to 125 000 men immigrated to canada from the us to avoid the draft -
Diefenbaker and bombs
Diefenbaker agreed to share bomarc ground to air missiles with the states after cancelling the avro arrow
Also SAGE missiles were placed in canada
The bobarc missiles had nuclear warheads -
NORAD
North American Aerospace Defense Command is a combined organization between the United States and Canada
It was made to warn about incoming soviet missiles and planes -
Sputnik and Canada's space program
Sputnik was the first artificial earth satelite and it was launched by the soviets
Essentialy the soviets won the space race -
Avro Arrow
The avro arrow was a Canadian "delta-winged interceptor aircraft"
It was very technically and aerodynamicly advanced
Although with political controversey it was cancelled and it put avro out of buisness -
Cuban Missile crisis
The Soiets were building nuclear missile on cuba aimed at the states
The states built a blockade and ordered that the missiles be dismantled and sent back tothe soviet union
This was the closest it got to nuclear anihilation
The crisis was resolved by Kennedy and the soviet leader -
Summit Series
A series of eight games played between canada and the soviet union
Canada barely won in the last game with 24 seconds left with a goal scored by Paul Henderson
Games were tense because of the cold war -
Fall of the berlin Wall
The borders were opened and east Berliners could visist west berlin
On this day a city that had been divided for 30 years was now unified -
Fall of the soviet union
December 26 was the official end of the soviet union
This date also marked the end of the cold war
The Soviet president handed all of their nuclear launch codes over to the russian president
