HIS263Y1 Lecture : Lecture 41 Cold war Canada.docx

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June 1950 north korea invades south korea, so the us government wants un to intervene on south koreas behalf, canada joins this coalition and fits canadian criteria, since. Canadian troops are fighting the battle from 1952 - 53, by late 50s there are crack in the cold war consensus into the 1960s: cracks in the cold war consensus. John diefenbaker and conservative are elected in 1957, diefenbaker ideologically is enthusiastic cold warrior but policies become inconsistent, over time. Ex he promised to deal with the bomarc system, that is an anti nuclear war system where you use to cook incoming nuclear weapons and decides to participates them in 1959 and then by. 1962 he refuses to take the actual warheads. He sis this because he hated john f kennedy. Pearson in office in 1963 takes the war heads but becomes inconsistent because they do not want to participate in the vietnam war.

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