Approximently at least 5% of high school students smoked
The tensions between the French speaking,Catholic descendants of French colonists and the English speaking,Protestant British population and government.
Ideas that the USA was planning any invasion of Canada in 1865 or just after are nonsense - Britain had sold far more war materiel to the Union than the Confederacy during the Civil War,the Union army was needed to enforce Reconstruction on US citizens in the South,and any war with Britain would have seen the huge British navy establish a blockade of the US coast and cripple the US economy - as it had done in the War of !812.President Johnson was aware of all of this,so had no intention - or desire to - attack Canada.
The main point of the Warsaw pact was to ally the countries of Eastern Europe against NATO. The Warsaw pact was seen as a counterbalanced political move which would bring stability to Europe through it in a way.
