Cold War - Timeline

Yalta Conference Occurs - Germany is divided into four occupation zones - Canada opts out and accepts UK territory Igour Gozenko Defects - A Soviet defector provides evidence for a Soviet spy ring inside the US. - Brought Canadian Police to high alert

US Implements Marshal Plan - In total gave 21.4 Billion Communism in Europe - Czechoslovakia, Malaya, and others become communist Berlin Blockade - Stalin's USSR blockades Berlin to starve Allied troops out - Plan fails as the Berlin Airlift gives supplies to US soldiers and citizens - Canada provides supplies and other resources

NATO is Created by 12 Countries - Founding members found NATO to resist USSSR and Communist expansion - Canada is one of the founding Signatories Soviet Union Tests Nuclear Bomb - Known to the US as Joe 1, the USSR tests their first succesful Nuclear bomb. - The world is impacted as a second Nuclear Power is born

There's a New China in China - The People's Republic of China is recognized as the government of China by the UN - The Republic of China officially surrenders to the PLC - Canada immediately starts diplomatic relations with the PRC even with US resistance Korean War - Pyongyang is taken by UN forces - The new China sends 300 thousand troops to help N. Korea, drawing war to a stalemate - Canada loses many troo

Korean War Continues - Chinese soldiers retake Seoul - Chinese soldiers lose Seoul - Chinese soldiers retake Seoul - Chinese soldiers lose Seoul - Chinese soldiers retake Seoul - Chinese soldiers lose Seoul - This goes on for a while - Canada loses more soldiers

Marshal Plan Ends - US ends period of contribution

Joseph Stalin Dies RIP

Baghdad Pact Signed - Middle-East middle powers sign a pact to resist USSR Warsaw Pact SIgned - The NATO of Communist countries - Canada is drawn into more tension

Suez Canal Crisis in Egypt - Egypt takes the Suez Canal - French and British mobilize army - Canada is key in making peace, and Lester B Pearson is influential enough to stop the militirization Vietnam Crisis - Communist uprising in Vietnam

Sputnik Launched in USSR - The Soviet Union launch first satellite, sparking space race Avro Arrow - On same day, the Avro Arrow is revealed, fastest aircraft to be ever built - Great Canadian aircraft

Second Berlin Crisis - USSR tells the west to leave Berlin - Tensions continue Space Race Continues - US forms NASA, and starts research on satelites

Cuban Missile Crisis - The USSR secretly installs missiles in Cuba - Brings the world to the brink of Nuclear War - Canada immediately pulls out of talks