Cold War

Units 4 and 5: 50s to 80s

Outline for the next 3 weeks

Schedule

• Nov 26: The Cold War

• Nov 27: Suburbia

• Nov 28: Quiet Revolution

• Nov 29: Pearson Years

• Nov 30: Expo 67

• December 3: Presentation Workshop

• Dec 4: Trudeaumania

• Dec 5: FLQ Crisis

• Dec 6: Constitution

• Dec 7: Memoirs, by Trudeau

• Dec 10-11: Presentations

• Dec 12: Free Trade and the 1988 election

• Dec 13: Oka Crisis

• Dec 14: Video on the Oka Crisis

• Dec 17: Review

• Dec 18: Test on these units

• Dec 19: Last day of class before break

Key Themes

• Pierre Elliot Trudeau

• Quebec’s place in Canada

• Native peoples in Canada

Readings

• Your books on Jean Chretien and Pierre Trudeau will both be used

• I will also give out some other readings

Group Presentations

• The Group Presentations for this unit will cover topics from all the decades:– Avro Arrow

– Summit Series of 72

– Acid Rain

– Olympic Games in Montreal and Calgary

– National Energy Program

– Newfoundland joins Canada

– St Lawrence Seaway

The Cold War

November 26th

The two sides

• After WW2, the two superpowers remaining were the Soviet Union and the USA

• Allies of both nations take sides

• Europe split

Iron Curtain

• Soviets prevent people from leaving, communicating with free world

• Germany and its capital Berlin are split up

• 1961 – Berlin wall is built

The Cold War spreads

• Both the US and the Soviets seek to make allies with other nations in the world, in particular Africa, Asia and the Americas

• Fidel Castro overthrows a dictatorship in Cuba in 1959, eventually sides with the Soviets

Occasionally it heats up

• Several small wars were fought that involved American and Soviet interests:

• - Greece• - Korea• - Vietnam• Angola and Mozambique• Afghanistan• Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962

Igor Gouzenko

• Soviet spy working in the Soviet embassy in Canada

• Defected to Canada in 1945

• Reveals the Soviets’ spy program in the West

Alliances

• US, Canada, Great Britain and other Western Allies form NATO

• Soviet Union and other Eastern European nations form the Warsaw Pact

• Canada and the US form NORAD

• Debate in Canada over the use of nuclear weapons