Canada In The Cold War
Canada played the role of a middle power, and occasionally, an important role in the Cold War. Throughout the US/Soviet rivalry, Canada was normally on the side of the United States. However its opposition to the Vietnam War and Canada's relationship with China and Cuba, along with the Prime Ministership of Pierre Trudeau often had Canada at odds with its southern neighbors.
Read more about Canada In The Cold War: Early Cold War, Fears of Communist Subversion, Peacekeeping, Canada-U.S. Tensions, End of The Cold War
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“This universal exhibition in Canada of the tools and sinews of war reminded me of the keeper of a menagerie showing his animals’ claws. It was the English leopard showing his claws.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Hate California—it’s cold and it’s damp.”
—Lorenz Hart (1895–1943)
“Testimony of all ages forces us to admit that war is among the most dangerous enemies to liberty, and that the executive is the branch most favored by it of all the branches of Power.”
—James Madison (1751–1836)