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The Cold War in Canada came to an end during the period of 1990–1995 as the traditional mission to contain Soviet expansion faded into the new realities of warfare. The Cold War required permanent foreign deployments to Western Europe, something which was no longer necessary, and as such bases closed down.
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 .
Manitoba’s history with nuclear weapons peaks between 1953 and 1960 during the Cold War when the Canadian government was willing to form a partnership with the British when they proposed to establish Churchill by Hudson Bay in Manitoba to be a testing and detonation site for nuclear weapons. [85]
From 1969 to 1970 the Canadian Army lists 77 tanks based in Germany (mostly Mk 5 and Mk 11's) and the remainder in Canada (60 at CFB Wainwright AB, 59 at CFSD Longpointe PQ, 46 at CFB Gagetown NB, 30 at CFB Borden, 29 at CFB Meaford ON, 27 at CFB Calgary AB, 12 at CFB Petawawa ON, 6 at RCEME School Kingston ON and 1 at the LETE Test ...
Canadian anti-war activists encouraged American draftees to head north, offering them extensive counsel and assistance. Draft dodgers were generally accepted as immigrants by Canadian authorities, and as many as 125,000 Americans moved to Canada due to their opposition to the War. At least half of them are believed to have stayed permanently.
The shortest, or great circle, route for a Soviet air attack on North America was through the Arctic, across the area around the North Pole.The DEW Line was built during the Cold War to give early warning of a Soviet nuclear strike, to allow time for United States bombers to get off the ground and land-based intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBMs) to be launched, to reduce the chances that ...
Cold War history of Canada (5 C, 15 P) Pages in category "History of Canada (1945–1960)" The following 13 pages are in this category, out of 13 total.
(1960–1963) Congo-Léopoldville UNOC Katanga South Kasai: Victory: Unknown: Unknown: Insurgency in Quebec (1962–1973) Canada: Front de libération du Québec: Victory. FLQ guerrillas are disbanded in 1973, after collapse in 1971. Unknown: Unknown: Whisky War (1973–2022) Canada Denmark: Agreement • Treaty was sighted, splitting the ...