Events
The United Nations was
established on June 26, It will grow to
include all nations on earth. Canada was one
of the founding members.-Soviet spy defected from Canada on september 5
-Canada forced to investigate and detained many
innocents-North American Aerospace Defence established
-To protect Canada and USA from USSR missles/aircrafts-On 1956, Suez crisis led to conflict between
the western alliance and France and Britain
-France and Britain tried to take a canal in Egypt
-Canada played a important role in peace keepingIron curtain was the boundary dividing europe
into two by the two superpower-North Atlantic Treaty Organization formed
-It was the flip side to the warsaw pact
-Canada was a founding member-1958-1960 the distant early warning line was set up
-Made to detect soviet activity over the north pole
-Canada gave USA permission to build on Canadian soilStrategic defense initiative
-USA's plan to make a nuclear defence system
to make Soviet missles useless
-One of the few times Canada declined USA
invitation to work on a projectCuban Missile Crisis
-Soviets built Nuclear platform in Cuba
Capable of hitting USA
-Soviet eventually dismantled the platform
in return for USA promise to not attack Cuba
-Canada played the role of peacekeeper and was
hesitant to fall into line with USAKorean war:
-Communism clashed with Capitalism
-Stalemate at 38th parallel after China and USA intervened
-Canadian supported the war with troopsPeriods
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