Post War

• war of words
• no deadly weaponary

• soviet union
• us

april-June 1945

representatives from 50 nations met at San Francisco to discuss creation of organized body of nations

• band together to avoid war
• encourage cooperation
• improve living conditions
• defend human rights

• from montreal
• 1946- set up huma rights division
• drafted 1st declaration of human rights (adopted by Un in 1948)

• North Atlantic traty organization
• felt Un not good enough to provide security
• signed by 12 countries
• april 1949
• promise to defend each other if one was attacked

soviet response to NATO

• 1957
• North american air defence command

• 1. mid canada line (55 N parallel)
• 2. pinetree radar system (along Cdn Ame border)
• 3. Distance early warning line (along arctic border)

• occupied by japan b4 WW2
• after ww2 was french colony
• ho chi minh led independace movement in 1954
• divided country in 2

• south was a us backed goverment. supported capitalism
• north was led by Ho Chi Minh as a communist

ho wanted to unify North and south. Ussr and china saw this as an oppurtunity to have an influence. led to proxy war, between us and ussr

was between 2 opposing idealoigies fought in and by a 3rd party

• no official role
• did not send troops
• helped give war supplies

cda's population increased by 50% durin 1946-61

depression didnt encourage big families so when men returned from war, there were new families

• developed suburbia
• more demand for schools and teachers
• rise of the teenager

• job market could not expand fast enough
• so much house buying that prices skyrocketed

• aging population
• lots of ppl taking out of pension plan, but not as much money going towards it

• 1967
• omnibus bill by pierre trudeau
• he said that law should be based on what was criminal, not sinful

• B4 1967 (Que, Nfld) -had to get bill allowing divorce
• B4 1967 elsewhere- had to proves spouse committed adultry, creulty, etc.
• Divorce Act 1968, allowed divorce without a good reason

• Banned at first
• Omnibus bill leagalized the use of BC

FLQ and Quebec Nationalists kidnapped British diplomat James Cross and Quebec provincial cabinet prime minister Pierre Laporte. Later on Prime Minister Tradaeu takes action and introduces the war measures act, giving athorities more power and detention to take down the FLQ.

gaev more control to police to do whatever they pleased, as long as it was for the greater good of the country.

• 1974
• Official Languages made french official topic
• only kdis whose parents went to Eng school were allowed to go too

• Pari Quebicois made stronger law
• 1977- Charter of French Language
• allowed french to be main language in quebec

• 1969
• made french and english main languages of canada

was a federal party dedicated to soverigniy of quebec

• 1987
• attempt to get quebec to sign the constituition
• said that they would preserve the identity of quebec
• was a FAIL

• 1992
• brian mulroney wanted to bring quebec into constitution
• recognized que as a distinct society
• FAIL

• premiers meet to come up with new constituion
• quebec doesnt sign
• april. 1982, queen elizabeth 2 signs consitution

• american culture pours into Canada
• people favour ame music, culture, etc

• stood for front liberation of quebec
• violent group
• believed in quebec sovereignity

• fall of 1944
• location where UN plans were laid

• february 1945
• agreement to replace failed league of nations
• later would be known as UN

• april 1945
• formal UN charter was drafted

• 1945
• 5 big nations- Soviet Union, US, britain, france, china
• wanted peace

• september 1945
• igor gouzenka exposed USSR of spy ring
• made canada feel that they were also involved in the Cold war

• Winston Churchill
• 1946
• indicated the divison between the continent of europe due to the two pacts

• 1947
• were guiding lines
• wanted to stop communism in smaller countries

• 1948
• canada and US gave money to europe to help pay for the repairs of the war

• one in 1980 and 1995.
• both were to decide if quebec should be a separate nation

• 1950-1953
• north was communist, south capitailism
• divided at 38th parallel
• north invaded south, and led to war

• had a significant contribution
• sent alot of troops
• developed a more international status
• helped in emergencies

• 1946-54
• mostly from europe

• 1954-67
• britain and hungarian

• 1978
• wanted to attract more people from other places
• reunite families
• accept displaced and persecuted ppl