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Cold War
Conflict between the USA and USSR that lasted until the 1990s. It was about comunism,where USA tried stopping it from spreading while the USSR helped speard it. It was never a physical war, although they were often very close to war.
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Human Rights
The UN took a leading role in the cause of human rights. Also a Canadian lawyer, John Humphrey, set up a Human Rights division of the UN Secretariate. With the help of other people he wrote the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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Palestine Israel conflict
Isreal seized into palestine in 1948. Thay were looking for a new 'home' after the Hitler crisis.
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Colombo Plan
Canada helped develope the Colombo Plan. It was set up to give technical and financial support to developing countries in Asia.
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Korean War 1950-1953
The Korean war was based on comunism. Where the North part was ocuppied by the soviets who established a comunist government, while the USA occupied the South Korea. The 38°N parallel was the border. Meanwhile the UN was trying to reunite both sideswith no success.
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Suez Crisis
Egypt's President Nasser, decided to take over the Suez Canal form the British and French. The Canal was the essntial trade trade route to the east.
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FLQ
FLQ was a radical group with no leader. Their idea was to use terrorism as a weapon to gain independence for Quebec.
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Auto Pact
Canada signed an agreement that boosted their trade in 1965. The Auto Pact allowed freetrade in Automobiles between Canada and the USA.
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Multiculturalism and Canada
Many communities had wanted full recognition as a Canadian, while keeping their individual cultural identities, In 1971 Canada became the First country to adopt multiculturalism as an official govrnment policy
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Kurds vs Iraqi government War
The 1974 war was the kurdish attempt to establish ' Kurdistan' in Northern Iraq. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/country_profiles/2893067.stm -
Canada's Immigration Act
The Immigration Act 3 main objectives. First was to bring people who would "promote the domestic and international needs of Canada. The second was to runite families who had been seperated. And the third was to accept " the displaced and the persecuted" for humanitarian reasons.
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Turkish vs PKK
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Saddam Hussein
He imposed his authority through terror to control all three sides of Iraq, the kurds in the north, sunni in the centre and shi'a in the South. After all the terror my parents had experienced they were forced to leave Iraq and go to Turkey. http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/IRQsaddam.htm -
Iraq vs Iran War
After Iran tried assassinatingt he Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz on April 1,1980. Saddam's response was to exeute on of the shiite cleric who led a regime. Then a war broke out. Between June and September 1980,193 clashes occured around the Iran-Iraq border. During the time my Parents were running away from iraq and had to go through Iran to get to Turkey. http://www.war-memorial.net/Iran-vs-Iraq-3.183 -
Conscription in Iraq
Males that were 18 years and older and healthy were forced to go to war. My father and uncles' names were put down for war. http://www.mongabay.com/history/iraq/iraq-manpower_and_training.html
