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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.
Hayes, Geoffrey et al. eds. Canada and the Second World War: Essays in Honour of Terry Copp (2012) specialized essays by scholars excerpt; Bernd Horn (2010). Men of Steel: Canadian Paratroopers in Normandy, 1944. Dundurn Press Ltd. ISBN 978-1-55488-708-8. Keshen, Jeffrey A. Saints, Sinners, and Soldiers: Canada's Second World War (2004)
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 ...
Pages in category "Works about Canada and the Cold War" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. I.
During the cold war, the RCMP’s Directorate of Security and Intelligence had a subdivision called “Character Weakness” which had the task of rooting out homosexual men and women working for the government. [7] By the late 1960s, the RCMP had created a list of thousands of suspected and confirmed homosexuals including 9 thousand in Ottawa ...
The war's impact led to the construction of war memorials in Canada. The Canadian National War Memorial was unveiled in 1939 and has since been used to honour Canadian war dead for other conflicts. [252] There are also eight memorials in France and Belgium to honour Canada's war dead from the war, like the Canadian National Vimy Memorial. [253]
The Cold War: An International History, 1947–1991 (1998), British perspective; short summary Boyle Peter G. American-Soviet Relations: From the Russian Revolution to the Fall of Communism. 1993. The Cambridge History of the Cold War (3 vol. 2010) online Archived 2016-08-20 at the Wayback Machine
The Cold War was a period of global geopolitical tension and struggle for ideological dominance 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.