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Type: Document
Description: Best suited for senior students, this task involves developing a timeline of some of the major events of the Cold War and indicating how Canada was involved or affected by them. May be modified for younger students.
Site: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
 
 
Type: Sound
Description: Radio clip recalls Korean War battle in which two battalions of men, Canadian and Australian, halted a massive drive by Communist troops to capture the city of Seoul. Veterans who were there discuss their experiences.
Site: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
 
 
Type: Sound
Description: CBC report on civilian victims of government nuclear war emergency preparedness exercises conducted during the Cold War.
Site: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
 
 
Type: Sound
Description: Interview with young soldier from Delburne, Alberta who has just received a gallantry award for his service in the Korean War.
Site: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
 
 
Type: Document Film and Video Sound
Description: A look at Canada's history of diplomacy and peacekeeping, including Canadian involvement in human rights issues, nuclear disarmament and the International Criminal Court.
Site: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
 
 
Type: Film and Video
Description: Television clip presents a reunion of Korean War veterans as they reminisce about their experiences and recall fellow soldiers, some of the 516 Canadians killed in that war, who did not return.
Site: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
 
 
Type: Document Film and Video Sound
Description: During the Second World War, roughly 22,000 Japanese Canadians were forcibly evacuated from the west coast and resettled in other parts of the country. Their struggle for redress and apologies continued after the war.
Site: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
 
 
Type: Film and Video
Description: Debunking of myth of threat posed by Japanese-Canadians during the Second World War, through interviews with both government officials and victims of internment. Argument that it was in fact the very act of resettling and interning Japanese-Canadians that could have alienated them enough to pose a threat in case of Japanese invasion of the Pacific coast.
Site: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
 
 
Type: Document Film and Video Sound
Description: It is called Canada's "Forgotten War." Over 500 Canadians died in the United Nations' struggle to repel the communist forces that invaded South Korea on June 25, 1950. To the people they helped liberate, the Canadians were heroes. Yet those who made it home returned to an indifferent country and a government that took 40 years to officially acknowledge their sacrifice. These CBC news stories report and comment on these issues.
Site: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
 
 
Type: Film and Video
Description: David Halton, son of war correspondent Matthew Halton, and a group of Canadian veterans write a final epilogue to the Battle of Ortona.
Site: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
 
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