African War History

Also, Canada is pressures on the political field by the United States. As a superpower United States is pressuring Canada to support them. During the Cold War Americans moved the nuclear missiles into Canada, even though the majority of Canadians were against it. Canada sends forces to Afghanistan to finish the

Canadians pride themselves on being a “peacekeeping country” and many believe that peacekeeping represents a defining aspect of Canadian identity because it reflects fundamental values, beliefs and interests. Canada has been a leader in peace operations since its development that spearheaded by a Canadian. In fact, Canada’s role as peacekeeper remains the main focus of the Canadian military after its invention around 60 years ago, originally started by a Canadian. Their efforts have gained an international reputation for Canada as a significant contributor to international peace and stability. While Canada has an exemplary history in UN peacekeeping, the current extent of its contribution, both in terms of peacekeeping personnel and percentage of funds to peacekeeping missions, are on a clear decline. The belief that Canada is a peacekeeping country is misguided because recent Canadian commitment shows a sharp decline in Canadian participation in UN peacekeeping. Surprisingly, as of March 2007, Canada ranked 59th out of 114 countries in terms of military and police contributions to UN operations. Despite Canadian declined involvement in peacekeeping during the last decade, it still remains a valuable and important mission that greatly deserves Canadian resources including monetary support, resources and personnel.

Canada has been actively involved with the United Nations since its creation in 1945. Since then, Canadian peacekeepers have participated in almost every single peacekeeping mission. The role of Canadian peacekeeping was to bring peace and stability between countries. However, Canada’s role is slowly starting to diminish because of its failure to prevent conflict in peacekeeping missions. Examples of this instance include the mass genocide in Rwanda, the civil war in Somalia and Yugoslavian crisis.

During the 1950s Canadian lives and history changed forever. The Suez Crisis was a political and military confrontation in Egypt that had a threat on the US and Great Britain. The Crisis brought Canadians together to help produce a large-scale peacemaking mission. Canada’s role in the Korean war was to protect South Korea as part of the United Nations and to work as peacekeepers after the war had ended. This war was the first time that women joined senior military ranks, a huge step for Canada and equal rights.

Finally, Canada helped attempt to rebuild Afghanistan by assisting in the training of Afghanistan’s army and police. “Canada has made training the Afghan army and police forces one of its top priorities in Afghanistan. Despite its obvious challenges, the army remains well ahead of the police in its development. There are currently about 2,4000 Afghan soldiers in Kandahar province, up from 600 in 2006. According to NATO, there are roughly 50,000 ANA soldiers in the country.” (Canada). This quote proves the progress Canada has made in improving Afghanistan’s security. This is important to maintaining world peace because it improves Afghanistan’s security and helps the whole world become stronger in their combined effort to combat terrorism. In conclusion, it was necessary for Canada to go to Afghanistan to maintain world peace by helping to rebuild Afghanistan. They did this through training the country’s defence and security, providing services to the people of Afghanistan, and engaging in operations to clear out

Ever since the end of the Second World War, Canada was not involved in many other issues. After the war Canada assumed a peacekeeping role with the rest of the world. It was only during the first and Second World War Canada was obligated to be involved. Since then Canada has been involved in 14 world conflicts. According to Craig Allen an author at the Canadian encyclopedia, “only 5 of these wars were as part of the British Empire, 3 of them as part of NATO. Of these wars only 1 was initiated by Canada.” The most recent war that was initiated by Canada was the intervention of ISIL. Canada’s military is not as heavily funded in comparison

A country can make quite a name for itself with its military prowess, but when the white flag waves, how can it keep itself relevant? It’s a question that begs answering, and has been answered, correctly and otherwise, in countless ways. In the aftermath of WWII, it was imperative that Canada answer this question for itself. The nation had become a powerful force on the field of battle, but as the war came to its close, Canada had to find a way to keep its status. In this, the country succeeded; with peacekeeping missions around the world, issues addressed at home, and disaster aid for those who needed it, it easily kept its relevance on a global scale. Even with the end

“We are not there to do traditional peacekeeping. We are there to combat terrorism and promote human rights.” The image of the twin towers coming down on September 11, 2001 shook the entire world. Since the Suez Crisis of 1956, Canadian soldiers had served as peacekeepers in Cyprus, Somalia, and many other war-torn countries. However, Canada's reputation changed when the Canadian Armed Forces joined the United States' war against Afghanistan. Although many argue that Canada entered the war to only fulfill NATO obligations, Canada's participation in Afghanistan was part of a larger mission; to combat global terrorism and save the oppressed citizens of Afghanistan. Canada's participation in the war in Afghanistan brought Canada world recognition for being more than

The 9/11 is a historically significant event because Canada enters the war, new laws were made and there were a lot of discrimination against Muslims. To begin with, 9/11 has a great impact on Canada entering the war. According to Dubreuil, by the time the Canada's elite Joint Task Force 2 operation ended, 40,000 Canadian Armed Forces members had served in Afghanistan and 158 soldiers had lost their lives. (Dubreuil, 2015). Canada played an important role in conducting peacemaking operations of the removal of the Taliban regime. The operations included providing political and strategic advice to the civilians of Afghanistan, promoting human rights, reconstruction, health care systems and development missions with Afghan Government. Additionally,

Canada, the peace making country participated in the war against terrorism in Afghanistan. Post 9/11 Canada had to change its focus from anti-military to aggressive military action. Canada had to take a stand against the terrorist in order stop another 9/11 like terror attack in Canada. Canada first contributed its campaign as a naval force in October 2001. The boots were deployed later that year in December. Fighting side by side against the United States and British soldiers, it did not take long for the Taliban to fall. Canada later switched their focus from offensive attack and started working towards stabilizing the country. As much as Canada wanted to help the United States and British soldiers, they also wanted to stay true to their

The American government, and people, have benefited from Canadian defence assistance in a number of ways. First, Canada and the United States have the world’s largest trade relationship between any two countries and this alliance generates revenue where 85% of Canadian exports go to the U.S.A. The Canadian Department of National Defence team with the U.S. Department of Defence as well, but the real benefit is that which Canada garners from the United States.

Canada was well known to be a part of the world forum predecessor of The League of Nations before The United Nations. The League of Nations, created after the Treaty of Versailles, was purposed to ensure that no wars of global scale will be fought. However, they lacked any dedicated military to enforce these laws.1 As World War Two broke out as the Axis Powers sought for a new world order against the Allied Forces, Canada would participate in many various battles, especially in D-Day. It was clear that the League of Nations had to be rebuilt to become a better world organization. Due to public out lash, The organization was overshadowed by The United Nations.2 Although the organization failed as a world security, Canada and its representatives were a leading force in the League of Nations. For example, Canadian official Walter A. Riddell help slow the rise of Fascist Italy by imposing sanctions on essential exports like steel and fuel.3 Raoul Dandurand was also

Canadian forces at war in Afghanistan is one of the event that have shaped modern Canadian history in international. Canada’s role in the development of and participation in peacekeeping during the 20th century led to the establishment of Canada as a prominent world power. A month after the 9/11 attacks, the United States, with the support

Freedom is defined as the power or right to act, speak, or think as one wants without hindrance or restraint, and this idea of freedom is arguably one of the most sought after privileges throughout the history of human existence. Wars have been fought over it, lives have been lost, song and poems and works of literature have been written about it. Freedom is what defines our country here in America today and it is the desire of the entirety of the human race. Although we may desire freedom and we may take it for granted in today’s society, it hasn't always been so easy to come by. The Indian freedom movement and the African freedom movement both had their fair share of struggles before achieving their desired state of freedom. Some of these struggles were common to both countries but each also experienced difficulties unique to their own country as well.

In the recent decades, West Africa has been studied and analyzed by multiple geographers and historians. Combined with history of the rise of early civilizations, religious influences and conquests, this region continues to open more dialogue on how these events from its past took place. One subject in particular has also become part of that discussion. That subject happens to deal with the rise and creation of West African states. In this essay, I will discuss how these states were created as well as the multiple ways in which the use of both inside and outside influences helped to shape these various states.