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Units 4 and 5: 50s to 80s
Outline for the next 3 weeks
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Schedule
• Nov 26: The Cold War
• Nov 27: Suburbia
• Nov 28: Quiet Revolution
• Nov 29: Pearson Years
• Nov 30: Expo 67
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• December 3: Presentation Workshop
• Dec 4: Trudeaumania
• Dec 5: FLQ Crisis
• Dec 6: Constitution
• Dec 7: Memoirs, by Trudeau
• Dec 10-11: Presentations
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• Dec 12: Free Trade and the 1988 election
• Dec 13: Oka Crisis
• Dec 14: Video on the Oka Crisis
• Dec 17: Review
• Dec 18: Test on these units
• Dec 19: Last day of class before break
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Key Themes
• Pierre Elliot Trudeau
• Quebec’s place in Canada
• Native peoples in Canada
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Readings
• Your books on Jean Chretien and Pierre Trudeau will both be used
• I will also give out some other readings
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Group Presentations
• The Group Presentations for this unit will cover topics from all the decades:– Avro Arrow
– Summit Series of 72
– Acid Rain
– Olympic Games in Montreal and Calgary
– National Energy Program
– Newfoundland joins Canada
– St Lawrence Seaway
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The Cold War
November 26th
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The two sides
• After WW2, the two superpowers remaining were the Soviet Union and the USA
• Allies of both nations take sides
• Europe split
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Iron Curtain
• Soviets prevent people from leaving, communicating with free world
• Germany and its capital Berlin are split up
• 1961 – Berlin wall is built
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The Cold War spreads
• Both the US and the Soviets seek to make allies with other nations in the world, in particular Africa, Asia and the Americas
• Fidel Castro overthrows a dictatorship in Cuba in 1959, eventually sides with the Soviets
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Occasionally it heats up
• Several small wars were fought that involved American and Soviet interests:
• - Greece• - Korea• - Vietnam• Angola and Mozambique• Afghanistan• Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962
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Igor Gouzenko
• Soviet spy working in the Soviet embassy in Canada
• Defected to Canada in 1945
• Reveals the Soviets’ spy program in the West
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Alliances
• US, Canada, Great Britain and other Western Allies form NATO
• Soviet Union and other Eastern European nations form the Warsaw Pact
• Canada and the US form NORAD
• Debate in Canada over the use of nuclear weapons