HIST 1126 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Nuclear Proliferation, Domino Theory, Douglas Macarthur
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Gouzenko was a low level spy working within the su embassy. Wants to defect to canada in 1945 brings info to canada that su has a massive spy ring implanted everywhere in canada however, every country had spies everywhere, the soviets just got caught and looked like bad guys. Us erupts at the idea that there is a soviet spy everywhere. Us and canada wonder what the soviet union could be up to. Mackenzie king seeks to place canada in geo-specific location, the north-atlantic triangle using the nations in a way os that canada does not descent too far into the influence of the. Canada was moving faster away from great britain at this time. Mackenzie king hopes that the north atlantic triangle keeps canada in the middle so that is doesn"t go too far into great britain or the us. Marshal plan idea that america would help build europe.
