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Chapter 6 Timeline
Canada in the Post-War World
Question | Answer |
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united Nations is created | 1945 |
US, Canada, and 10 Western countries form NATO | 1949 |
Communists take over China | 1949 |
North Korea invades South Korea (Korean War begins) | 1950 |
Soviet Union and many Eastern European countries form Warsaw Pact | 1955 |
Lester Pearson, as Canada;s Minister of External Affairs, works to defuse the Suez crisis | 1956 |
Progressive Conservatives leader John Diefenbaker becomes PM | 1957 |
Vietnam War is fought | 1961~1975 |
Berlin Wall is built, dividing Berlin into east and west | 1961 |
Cuban missile crisis | 1962 |
Lester Pearson becomes PM | 1963 |
USSR invades Afghanistan | 1979 |
Berlin Wall is destroyed (symbolic end of Cold War) | 1989 |
Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement | 1989 |
Canada participates in the Gulf War | 1991 |
Canada joins NAFTA | 1994 |
Canadian air force joins NATO ataacks on Yugoslavia | 1999 |