HIS311Y1 Lecture : Diefenbaker
Document Summary
By 1949 the soviets had developed the atomic bomb and thus both sides had nuclear capabilities. It could be launched from the us to the ussr and vice versa. The americans perceived there was a missile gap. Race to get functioning satellites up in space and then the race to reach the moon, and then finally to get human beings to the moon. Sputnik, 1957: russians won the first part of the race, first satellite, panic in north america; fear that they were falling behind. As a consequence of defections from east berlin to the democratic west berlin, the communist government erected a wall. Closest that both sides came to actually launching a nuclear attack. In 1957 he won a minority government and in 1958 he won the biggest majority in canadian history. He held the idea of uniting all canadians around one canada", canadians without hyphens. Introduced the bill of rights in 1960, gave aboriginals the vote, etc.
