Cold War Canada
Canada
Igor Gouzenko defects
September 5, 1945 - September 6, 1945Soviet government amirs spying on Canada
February 20, 1946Canada Peace Congress founded
May, 1949Founded May 6-8, 1949
Canada sends forces to Korea
August 7, 1950Pontecorvo defection
October, 1950Bruno Pontecorvo, atomic scientist at Chalk River nuclear plan, defects to the Soviet Union
Canada NATO forces to Europe
January 31, 1951Land and air forces
Canadian Communist Party in disarray
April, 1957Mass resignations
AVRO Arrow project cancelled
February 20, 1959Canadian jet fighter
Canada's first wheat sale to China
January 27, 1961Finalized by Diefenbaker government
Munsinger mentioned in House of Commons
March 4, 1966Simon Fraser University students occupy admin building
November 21, 1968 - November 23, 1968George Williams University students occupy computer centre
January 29, 1969 - February 11, 1969Ends with vandalism and the arrest of 91 people
Summit Series
September, 1972Canada won the 8 game hockey series on September 28, 1972
Canadian government
Secret order in council authorizes espionage detention
October 6, 1945Suspects in the Gouzenko affair
Taschereau-Kellock Royal Commission
February 5, 1946 - June 27, 1946Appointed to investigate Gouzenko
Cabinet creates Security Panel
April 16, 1946To advise on internal security
John Grierson testifies before Royal Commission
May 13, 1946Gouzenko Commission
Defence Research Board established
April 7, 1947External Affairs debate on Canada's role in the Cold war
August, 1947 - December, 1947Secret Cabinet directive on security screening
March 5, 1948Secret Cabinet directive on immigration screening
November 20, 1948The Massey Commission
1951Gordon Commission
1955 - 1957Trudeau and Cabinet discuss withdrawing from NATO
July, 1969Can-US
PM King discloses Gouzenko story to US President Truman
September 30, 1945Joint Can-US development of DEW Line
November, 1954Distant Early Warning Line announced
Canada-U.S. Defence Production Sharing Agreement
August 29, 1958Kennedy meets with Diefenbaker in Ottawa
May 16, 1961Secret meeting between Pearson and Johnson
May, 1964Pearson raises no strenuous objections to U.S. proposal to bomb North Vietnam
Pearson's Temple University speech
April 2, 1965Cultural Producers
Oscar Brand blacklisted
1950Symphony Six visa problem
1951Requests for visas to perform in the US were denied
The Moneymakers
1952Ted Allan's production
Reuben Ship deported
1953Reuben Ship's The Investigator airs
1954Charlie Chaplin "banned" from the US
1955Paul Robeson at Massey Hall
1956Canadian anti-communism
RCMP spy suspects interrogated
February 15, 194612 spy suspects for interrogation in RCMP barracks
Canadian Congress of Labour expels 10 unions
June, 1949For communist affiliation
NFB purge
November, 1949National Film Board
First Norman loyalty investigation
October, 1950 - November, 1950Second Norman loyalty investigation
January, 1952 - February, 1952U.S. Anti-communism
HUAC hearings begin in Hollywood
October 1947HUAC Hiss-Chambers hearings
August, 1948Rosenbergs executed for espionage
June 19, 1953Juilius and Ethel Rosenberg executed in the U.S. for atomic espionage despite worldwide protests.
Provinces
Quebec reactivates "Padlock Law"
1948Padlock law unconstitutional
March 7, 1957Ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court of Canada
De Gaulle: "Vive le Québec Libre"
July 25, 1967Diplomatic
Statute of Westminster
1931Ogdensburg Agreement
1940Hyde Park agreement
1941Prompted increased economic cooperation
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
1947North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) formed
April 4, 1949Canada joins ICC
July, 1954International Control Commission in Indo China
North American Air Defence (NORAD) agreement
August 1, 1957Can-US Autopact
1965Operation Rolling Thunder
March 2, 1965 - November, 1968CAN government officials
Only communist MP sentenced
June 20, 1946MP Fred Rose, sentenced to six years for espionage
E. Herbert Norman suicide
April 4, 1957Canada's Ambassador to Egypt
Cabinet resignations over nuclear policy
February, 1963Diefenbaker government
Watkins dies of heart attack during RCMP interrogation
October, 1964Former Ambassador to the Soviet Union, John Watkins was being interrogated by members of the RCMP security service on Thanksgiving weekend
Trudeau visits China
October 10, 1973First Canadian Prime Minister to visit China
General Cold War
Yalta Conference
February 4, 1945 - February 11, 1945Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech
March 5, 1946Britain no longer able to aid anti-communists in Greece and Turkey
February 21, 1947Informs US
George Kennan's 'Mr. X' article in Foreign Affairs
July 1947Communist coup in Czechoslovakia
February 25, 1948Korean War
June 25, 1950 - July 27, 1953British diplomats defect to USSR
May, 1951Guy Burgess and Donald Maclean
Death of Josef Stalin
March 5, 1953Hungarian Revolution
October 23, 1956 - November 10, 1956Suez Crisis
October 29, 1956 - November 7, 1956Construction of Berlin Wall begins
August 13, 1961Cuban Missile Crisis
October 14, 1962 - October 28, 1962Gulf of Tonkin incident
August 2, 1964Prague Spring
January, 1968 - August, 1968Soviet and other Eastern European soldiers crush Czechoslovakia's "Prague Spring" in August
SALT I signed in Moscow
May 22, 1972Brezhnev and Nixon
U.S. Cold War
Both general and governmental
Truman doctrine announced
March 12, 1947Committing the US to combat Communist aggression worldwide
Marshall Plan
June 5, 1947 - 1951US offers Marshall Plan for European economic recovery
President Truman signed the Marshall Plan on April 3, 1948
Taft-Hartley Act
June 18, 1947U.S. Congress passes anti-communist labour law over Truman's veto
Truman introduces peacetime draft
March 17, 1948Bay of Pigs invasion
April 17, 1961CIA-sponsored invasion of Cuba fails
JFK assassinated
November 22, 1963Nixon visits China
February 21, 1972Canadian Prime Ministers
Mackenzie King
October 23, 1935 - November 14, 1948Last term
Louis St-Laurent
November 15, 1948 - June 20, 1957Diefenbaker
June 21, 1957 - April 21, 1963Pearson
April 22, 1963 - April 19, 1968Trudeau
April 20, 1968 - June 3, 1979US Presidents
Franklin D. Roosevelt
1933 - 1945Harry Truman
1945 - 1953Eisenhower
1953 - 1961JFK
1961 - 1963Johnson
1963 - 1969Nixon
1969 - 1974Ford
1974 - 1977Carter
1977 - 1981Cultural Exchange
Cold War
1958 US Cultural Agreement
January 27, 1958Executive agreement, rather than a treaty