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NATO
(North Atlantic Treaty Organization)
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-defense organization designed to prevent Soviet expansion into Western Europe
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| -Quebec legislation that allowed police to shut down communist organizations |
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-defense system between US and Canada to protect against Soviet air attack
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American-Soviet pact to reduce the number of nuclear weapons
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-country invaded by Iraq that started the Persian Gulf War
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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 [image] |
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| -incident that nearly caused war between the US and the Soviet Union in 1962 |
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| -built between East and West Berlin to keep people from leaving Soviet control |
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| Canadian airplane cancelled by Diefenbaker Government |
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weapon that required nuclear warheads -Diefenbaker refused to allow them in Canada |
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| Won the 1957 Nobel Peace Prize for resolving the Suez Crisis |
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| Soviet clerk who exposed a spy ring operating in Canada |
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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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Canadian Prime Minister who worried about Communism but refused to outlaw it.
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Defense alliance formed by the Soviet Union
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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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Leader of Cuba
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| System that has public ( government) ownership of business and Industry. |
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Mikhail Gorbachev
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-Soviet leader who helped end Cold War
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Suez Crisis
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-conflict in Egypt resolved when UN sent peacekeepersto the region.
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term given to countries
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Capitalism
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| system that has business for profit & individual (private) ownership of industry |
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| - negative term given to communism |
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| 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 |
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| body of the United Nations where all the member countries have one seat |
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| United Nations Security Council |
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| 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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| 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 |
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| Americans who fled to Canada during the Vietnam War to avoid military service |
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| Canadian International Development Agency that provides assistance to developing nations |
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| nickname given to the American plan to build an anti-missile defence system |
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| code name for the UN military operation to remove Saddam Hussein's troops from Iraq |
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| 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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