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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)