Canada Post War Essay

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After the Second World War, there were other wars fought. These wars are called post wars because unlike the two World Wars, it didn’t involve many countries to take action. Canada’s role has been changing when it comes to war as time goes by. In World War one, Canada was forced to go to war because its “mother country”, Great Britain, had joined the war. In World War two, Canada chose to go to war since Canada was granted the power to choose which war to fight without being forced by the British Empire (H.S 2016). During the post war period, Canada has taken action in many wars to help other countries. Canada was more of a peacekeeper than a warrior during the post war period because Canada helped other countries recover from damage and try to come up with …show more content…

The Suez Crisis started in 1956 and ended in 1957. Lester B. Pearson (he is Canadian) won a Nobel peace prize for thinking of making the world’s first, large-scale U.N peacekeeping force to cool down the situation in this conflict (JON TATTRIE, 2016). This conflict was between Great Britain, France and Egypt. The British and French soon teamed up and started bombing the Suez Canal. This is when Pearson developed the idea of the first large-scale peacekeeping force. The United States pressured the British Government to agree on a seize fire, and they did. Canadian supply and logistics contingent was in place by late November (JON TATTRIE, 2016). The peacekeeping force came in and helped civilians away from danger. Lester B. Pearson’s plan stopped another world war from happening. All these examples puzzle up to show that Canadian Lester B. Pearson took great initiative e in showing what kind of leader and peacekeeper Canadians really are by coming up with a solution which stopped a third World War from happening (JON TATTRIE,

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