Founded May 6-8, 1949
Bruno Pontecorvo, atomic scientist at Chalk River nuclear plan, defects to the Soviet Union
Land and air forces
Mass resignations
Canadian jet fighter
Finalized by Diefenbaker government
Ends with vandalism and the arrest of 91 people
Canada won the 8 game hockey series on September 28, 1972
Suspects in the Gouzenko affair
Appointed to investigate Gouzenko
To advise on internal security
Gouzenko Commission
Distant Early Warning Line announced
Pearson raises no strenuous objections to U.S. proposal to bomb North Vietnam
Requests for visas to perform in the US were denied
Ted Allan's production
12 spy suspects for interrogation in RCMP barracks
For communist affiliation
National Film Board
Juilius and Ethel Rosenberg executed in the U.S. for atomic espionage despite worldwide protests.
Ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of Canada
Prompted increased economic cooperation
International Control Commission in Indo China
MP Fred Rose, sentenced to six years for espionage
Canada's Ambassador to Egypt
Diefenbaker government
Former Ambassador to the Soviet Union, John Watkins was being interrogated by members of the RCMP security service on Thanksgiving weekend
First Canadian Prime Minister to visit China
Informs US
Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean
Soviet and other Eastern European soldiers crush Czechoslovakia's "Prague Spring" in August
Brezhnev and Nixon
Both general and governmental
Committing the US to combat Communist aggression worldwide
US offers Marshall Plan for European economic recovery
President Truman signed the Marshall Plan on April 3, 1948
U.S. Congress passes anti-communist labour law over Truman's veto
CIA-sponsored invasion of Cuba fails
Last term
Cold War
Executive agreement, rather than a treaty