POLS 2600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Foreign Investment Review Agency, William Lyon Mackenzie King, Cuban Missile Crisis
4 Apr 2018
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Fought for control over canada"s role in ww2. After the war, he and canadians become internationalists he led canada into participating in the world, ex. Most influential p. m for canada"s foreign policy. Promoted peace, expanded trade, distanced canada from gb, allied with the. Canada reacted to internationalism 1) we are too distanced from gb; 2) we shouldn"t have gotten involved in conflicts, ex. Canadians learned from ww2 that we cannot isolate yourself from war need for. American ally; diefenbaker refused to support the us (and the deployment of nuclear weapons) and canadians turned on him. He represented canadians by promising to negotiate with the us about deploying nuclear weapons in canada and to be a good ally of the us nato and deploying nuclear weapons in canada. Canadians are happy except one problem us in vietnam: canadians turn against it (media war) + draft dodgers. Anti-american, anti-vietnam war (like the canadians thought)
