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SS 11 Ch 6 Canada Cold War
Canada during the cold war
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History
11th Grade
10/25/2008

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Term

NATO

(North Atlantic Treaty Organization)

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Definition

-defense organization designed to prevent Soviet expansion into Western Europe

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Padlock Law

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-Quebec legislation that allowed police to shut down communist organizations
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NORAD

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-defense system between US and Canada to protect against Soviet air attack

-including radar stations in Canada's North

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SALT

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American-Soviet pact to reduce the number of nuclear weapons

 

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Kuwait

 

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-country invaded by Iraq that started the Persian Gulf War

 

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Somalia

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Canadian peacekeepers harmed the reputation of Canada's armed forces by killing a teenage boy in this country
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Cuban Missile Crisis

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-incident that nearly caused war between the US and the Soviet Union in 1962
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Berlin Wall  [image]

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-built between East and West Berlin to keep people from leaving Soviet control
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Avro Arrow

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Canadian airplane cancelled by Diefenbaker Government
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Bomarc Missile

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weapon that required nuclear warheads

-Diefenbaker refused to allow them in Canada

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Lester B. Pearson

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Won the 1957 Nobel Peace Prize for resolving the Suez Crisis
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Igor Gouzenko

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Soviet clerk who exposed a spy ring operating in Canada
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Rwanda

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-close to a million people died in a brutal civil war in this country
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Louis St. Laurent

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Oh NO!!!!!

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Canadian Prime Minister who worried about Communism but refused to outlaw it.

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Warsaw Pact

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Defense alliance formed by the Soviet Union

-included Hungary,

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Glasnost

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Gorbachev's policy of "openness"

-allowed freedom of speech & criticism of the government

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Fidel Castro

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Definition

Leader of Cuba

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Communism

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Definition
System that has public ( government) ownership of business and Industry.
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Mikhail Gorbachev

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Definition

-Soviet leader who helped end Cold War

-brought down Berlin Wall

-introduced Glasnost

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Fraklin D. Roosevelt    [image]
Definition
-American President
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Suez Crisis

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Definition

-conflict in Egypt resolved when UN sent peacekeepersto the region.

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satellite states

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term given to countries

controlled by the Soviet Union

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Capitalism

 

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system that has business for profit & individual (private) ownership of industry
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red menace

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- negative term given to communism
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superpowers
Definition
an extremely powerful nation: during the Cold War, the United States and Soviet Union were the world's two superpowers
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United Nations General Assembly
Definition
body of the United Nations where all the member countries have one seat
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United Nations Security Council
Definition
smaller body of the United Nations that deals with collective security: consists of five permanent members (China, US, Russia, Britain, and France) and 10 rotating members
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Bay of Pigs
Definition
site of the American-supported invasion to try to overthrow Fidel Castro's new Cuban government
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draft dodgers or draft resistors
Definition
Americans who fled to Canada during the Vietnam War to avoid military service
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CIDA
Definition
Canadian International Development Agency that provides assistance to developing nations
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Star Wars
Definition
nickname given to the American plan to build an anti-missile defence system
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Operation Desert Storm
Definition
code name for the UN military operation to remove Saddam Hussein's troops from Iraq
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Romeo Dallaire
Definition
Canadian general in charge of the United Nations peacekeepers in Rwanda; he urged the UN to send more troops to prevent the massacre of Rwandans
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