Cold War student handout

Source
Record Evidence here / Change
What is different from today? / Continuity
What is the same as today?
Diefenbunker video
Duck and Cover
Survival Under Atomic Attack
Calgary Evacuates
Life in a Fallout Shelter
Basement Fallout Shelter - pamphlet
1917
The Russian Revolution creates the world’s first communist state The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics / 1919
The Winnipeg General Strike is feared to be the beginning of a potential communist revolution in Canada / 1939-1935
Canada and the Soviets are allies during the war / 1941-1946
The United States develops the first nuclear bomb in “The Manhattan Project” in an attempt to defeat Germany / 1941-1946
Canadians produce uranium for the Manhattan Project
August 1945
The U.S. drops nuclear bombs on Japan at Hiroshima and Nagasaki / Sept. 1945
Igor Gouzenko reveals that Russian spies have been operating in Canada / Oct. 1945 The United Nations is formed to promote diplomacy and peace and to prevent another world war / 1949
The USSR
reveals that they possess nuclear weapons by testing its first nuclear bomb / 1949
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is formed to try to protect Canada, U.S. and western Europe from communist aggression
1950
Communist North Korea tries to expand its territory through war and aggression / 1952
Canadian school children are taught to Duck and Cover in the event of a nuclear threat / 1953 Canada begins to develop a powerful supersonic jet called the Avro Arrow / 1955 The Warsaw Pact is formed to protect the USSR, East Germany and other communist nations from western aggression / 1955 Calgary residents practice evacuation in the case of a nuclear threat
1956 Canada proposes peacekeeping after the Suez Crisis in Egypt / 1960 The Canadian government encourages Canadians to build fallout shelters / 1959-61 The Canadian government builds a government and military nuclear blast and fallout shelter outside Ottawa / 1962 Soviets threaten the US with nuclear weapons in communist Cuba / 1964/65 The U.S. declares war in Vietnam to prevent communist aggression
1968ish
Peace activists oppose American involvement in Vietnam and nuclear weapons / 1985 Soviet leader and US president meet to discuss reduction of nuclear weapons / 1986
There are 70000 nuclear weapons in the world / 1989 The Berlin wall comes down allowing free movement between communist East and democratic West / 2009
There are 23000 nuclear weapons in the world