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Canada and the Red Scare

Canada and the Red Scare. By: Amanda Tajik & Tanisha Shekdar. Focus Question:. What was the impact of the red scare on the citizens of Canada?. The Gouzenko Affair. On September 5 th , 1945, Igor Gouzenko revealed to the world proof of a Soviet spy ring in Canada. Igor gouzenko.

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Canada and the Red Scare

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  1. Canada and the Red Scare By: Amanda Tajik & Tanisha Shekdar

  2. Focus Question: What was the impact of the red scare on the citizens of Canada?

  3. The Gouzenko Affair • On September 5th, 1945, Igor Gouzenko revealed to the world proof of a Soviet spy ring in Canada.

  4. Igor gouzenko • The Soviet Spy Ring was working in multiple Canadian • governments and in British High Commission in • Ottawa • Also had been created to obtain classified atomic • intelligence

  5. Communist Paranoia • During the Cold War, Canada joined USA to find communists on home soil

  6. Communist Paranoia • Ottawa: set up system of security checks • Quebec: set up a Padlock Law

  7. Lester B. Pearson • Minister of External Affairs • Let us by all means remove the traitors from positions of trust, but in doing so, I hope we may never succumb to the black madness of the witch hunt

  8. Red Scare's Impact on Canada • Made Canada Paranoid • Did not go to the extent that Americans did • Even though Communism did not directly impact Canada, it still impacted Democratic lives of the Canadians

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