Events
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 alertUS 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 resourcesNATO 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
bornThere'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 trooKorean 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
soldiersMarshal Plan Ends
- US ends period
of contributionJoseph Stalin Dies
RIPBaghdad 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 tensionSuez 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 VietnamSputnik 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 aircraftSecond Berlin Crisis
- USSR tells the west
to leave Berlin
- Tensions continue
Space Race Continues
- US forms NASA, and
starts research on
satelitesCuban Missile Crisis
- The USSR secretly
installs missiles in
Cuba
- Brings the world to
the brink of Nuclear
War
- Canada immediately
pulls out of talks
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