CANA 1F91 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Cuban Missile Crisis, Non-Aligned Movement, Lester B. Pearson

• School: Brock University
• Department: Canadian Studies
• Course: CANA 1F91
• Professor: Maureen Connolly

Document Summary

A war without fighting: canada, the cold war, and the fracturing of national. Violence was interpreted as refining aspects of canadian identity. Youthful nation bravely defending itself from the usa (1812) Laura secord national identity for canadian women. Ww1 many aspects of 1812 continued into this war. Re-interpretation of the war, re-imagined as noble, and does something amazing for the nation. Both conflicts introduce canadian identity, and nationalism is linked to violence and opinions are holistic. The igor gouzenko affair: the origins/revolution of the cold war. Not a violent war, but presented aspects of canadian identity. Soviet espionage in canada: what happened, and why it mattered. Start of cold war was very complicated but happens in canada. Igor needed to send these soviet messages to the soviet embassy in ottawa. After the us drops two atomic bombs in japan, igor tries to get the documents on how the atomic bombs were built.