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A Staple State: Canadian Industrial Resources in Cold War. U. of Toronto Press. 260 pp. Clearwater, John. 1998. Canadian nuclear weapons: the untold story of Canada's Cold War arsenal. Dundurn Press. ISBN 1-55002-299-7; Cuff, R. D. and J. L. Granatstein. 1975. Canadian-American Relations in Wartime: From the Great War to the Cold War.
Questions about loyalty within the civil service began to preoccupy the Canadian government in 1945 following Soviet cipher clerk Igor Gouzenko's defection. The details of the defection revealed that Soviet Union had a large spy network in Canada that compromised the Canadian civil service, military and National Research Council.
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 .
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.
The "Cold War" culminated in 1987 with Rendez-vous '87, as the Soviet national team played a two-game series against the NHL all-stars in place of the NHL All-Star Game. The series was split, with the NHL winning the first game 4–3, and the Soviets the second, 5–3. [ 10 ]
Russia's Cold War: From the October Revolution to the Fall of the Wall (Yale University Press; 2011) 512 pages; Mastny, Vojtech. Russia's Road to the Cold War: Diplomacy, Warfare, and the Politics of Communism, 1941–1945 (1979) Mastny, Vojtech. The Cold War and Soviet Insecurity: The Stalin Years (1998) online edition from ACLS E-Books ...
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.
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 ...