Dec 10, 2012 Small Group Work (DI)

The following information was gathered by each group regarding Chapter 12 of CHC2P's textbook.

Group 1:  James, Jhomar and Kimberly

Igor Gouzenko
-Igor worked for the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa;
-Once Igor determined that he was going to be sent home to Russia, he gave up away Soviet Spy names and locations;
-Everytime Igor spoke in public he wore a mask so he would not be identified;
-Canada protected Igor from the Soviet spies that tried to kill him.

Warsaw Pact
-countries involved in the Warsaw Pact:
Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Soviet Union and Albania

-The Warsaw Pact was a defense treaty between eight communist states in Eastern Europe during the Cold War.

-The Warsaw Pact was created because the United Nations created NATO-North American Treaty Organization)

-Soviet Union tried to spread their communist beliefs across Europe especially in countries under the Iron Curtain

-The Treaty was signed in Warsaw Poland

Group 2: Gsenia and Machalia

-Norad agreement was singned in 1958. Canada and the United States helped defend one another;
-The DEW or Distant Early Warning system was able to pick up approaching enemy air crafts and missiles from 4800 km away;
-NORAD headquarters is located under 400 m of solid granite close to Colorado
-The first  Sputnik satelite was launched in 1957;
-Sputnik was used to deliver nuclear war head anywhere in North America.  The Soviets responded by building longrange missiles;

-Cuba's Missiles could easily hit any major city in North America.  United States made a blockade around Cuba so no more delivery rockets and nuclear bombs could easily be delivered into the island;
-Soviet Ships turned back and the Cuba Missile Crisis was over.

Group 3: Matthew and Anthony

After WW2 Canada's birth rate increased;

After the war men and women returned home from the war and reunited with their families.  This resulted in an increase in the live birth rate;

Inquiry
What provinces in Canada had the highest birth rate?

What year did the birth rate in Canada reach it's highest peak?

Where was the birth rate the highest? In urban or rural Canada?

Group 4- Kevin and Monique

Orgins of the Cold War

Joseph Stalin had promised the United States and England that he would allow free elections in these countries, but he did not deliver his promise.  In 1948, Stalin had forced Communist governments on these countries.  Stalin's actions infuriated the United States and its allies.  The world had been rid of one powerful dictator, but had been replaced by another.  After six years of terrible fighting during the WW2, neither side wanted more casulaities, therefore they resorted to the Cold War.

NATO
In order to protect the democratic governments of the West against Soviet expansion.  Canda and the United States joined with 10 European countries to form the military alliance known as NATO in 1949.  The member countries pledged to protect each other from enemy attack.

The Avro Arrow
The CF-105 or Avro Arrow was a supersonic jet developed by the Canadian Government.  Faster than any other aircraft the Arrow was designed to carry nuclear-tipped missiles to destroy soviet bomb attacks in the Canadian North.