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Canada emerged from the Second World War as a world power, radically transforming a principally agricultural and rural dominion of a dying empire into a truly sovereign nation, with a market economy focused on a combination of resource extraction and refinement, heavy manufacturing, and high-technology research and development.
Canada remained a close ally of the United States throughout the Cold War. When Igor Gouzenko , a cipher clerk for the Soviet Embassy to Canada in Ottawa , defected in 1945, fears of Soviet espionage led to a red scare and the arrest and conviction of 18 people, including Labor-Progressive Party (Communist) Member of Parliament Fred Rose .
The 1987 Defence White Paper "Challenge and Commitment" called for an expansion of the reserve forces to approximately 90,000 troops, however with the end of the Cold War this plan was shelved. [2] The article is based on the Canadian government's 1987 White Paper "A Defence Policy for Canada" , which was published at the end of 1987. The White ...
Canada: Métis: Victory. Red River Rebellion defeated; The legislature passes the Manitoba Act in 1870; Red River Colony enters Canada as the province of Manitoba; None: None: Mahdist War (1881–1899) United Kingdom Canada Egypt: Sudan: Victory. Sudan becomes the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan, a condominium of the British Empire; 16 [1] Unknown: North ...
Cold War history of Canada (1945−1992). Subcategories. This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total. C. Canada and the Vietnam War (7 P) Cold War ...
The Gouzenko Affair was the name given to events in Canada surrounding the defection of Igor Gouzenko, a GRU cipher clerk stationed at the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa, from the Soviet Union in 1945 and his allegations regarding the existence of a Soviet spy ring of Canadian communists.
The Cold War was a period of global geopolitical tension and struggle for ideological and economic influence between the United States and the Soviet Union (USSR) and their respective allies, the Western Bloc and the Eastern Bloc, that started in 1947, two years after the end of World War II, and lasted until the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991.
While the Cold War itself never escalated into direct confrontation, there were a number of conflicts and revolutions related to the Cold War around the globe, spanning the entirety of the period usually prescribed to it (March 12, 1947 to December 26, 1991, a total of 44 years, 9 months, and 2 weeks).