HIST 1126 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Distant Early Warning Line, John Diefenbaker, Middle Power
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Canada and the cold war world 1950s-1970s. Britain, france and israel invade egypt in a secret pact to maintain the suez canal. The us is angered, goes against the whole reason they went to the united nations. Us thinks of this as british and french imperialism, us and su condemn this. Lester b. pearson proposes a canadian peacekeeping sanction to go to the suez canal goes on to win the nobel peace prize sets model for un peacekeeping missions. Distant early warning line big chain of radar stations up in the north, northern parts of provinces up into territories and back down again. When the soviets attacks, the dew line will warn canada and the us. Avro left with an arrow with limited arrows longer the plane sits in the shop, longer the blueprints will sit there for opportunities for the. Diefenbaker under pressure by americans to destroy it.
