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Final Ideas/Test Prep

+Evolution of Peacekeeping

UN peacekeeping missions:

Soldiers in blue helmets and white vehicles Non-aggressive

Suez UNEF (1956-67)

Cyprus UNFICYP (1964-94)

Yugoslavia UNPROFOR (1992-95) Ineffective, unable to protect civilians, a failure?

+Evolution of Peacekeeping

UN/NATO peacemaking missions

Green helmets, green tanks, able to enforce peace

Bosnia IFOR/NATO (1995-96)

Kosovo KFOR/NATO (1996-98)

Rwanda (1994)

Afghanistan/NATO (2001) Is this peacekeeping?

+Evolution of Peacekeeping:Key points

Passive peacekeeping becomes active peacemaking beginning in Yugoslavia

NATO forces as opposed to UN forces Different implication A fighting force versus an observer force Keep in mind, these are the SAME soldiers

Why didn’t Canada enter the Iraq war like other NATO countries (USA/UK)? It was NOT UN sanctioned (allowed)

+League of Nations vs United Nations intervention

League of Nations failed to do anything in Manchuria or Abyssinia (Ethiopia)

United Nations dealt with the conflict in North Korea in a very different way Allowed a US General to organize a force and fight

back against the aggressor Canada sent 26,000 troops to Korea

Key Idea:

The United Nations accomplished in Korea what the League of Nations never would have done.

+Chronology(order of events)The Cold War

1946 – Soviet spies discovered in Canada

1947-48 – Berlin Blockade and Airlift

1948 – The creation of NATO

North American Defense

1955-57 – The DEW line is built

1958 – Canada and America sing an air defense pact

1958-59 – Canada buys BOMARC missiles

+Chronology(order of events)The UN:

1945 – Canada joins the UN

1956 – Peacekeepers are deployed to the Suez Canal

1990 – Canada’s NATO troops are relocated from Germany to UNPROFOR (Yugoslavia)