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Tres Bien! Duplessis-era Quebec got a popular new one of these.
What is a flag?
Where were you July 16, 1969? He was stepping foot where no human had ever been before - the surface of the moon.
Who is Neil Armstrong?
Post-war Jewish immigrants to this region formed the country of Israel. War would soon break out there, between the Israelites and most of their neighbours.
What is Israel?
She refused to sit on the back of the bus, and became one of the most famous faces of the Civil Rights Movement.
Who is Rosa Parks?
Although not IN Europe, Canada joins this military alliance that came about to protect against a Soviet invasion into Europe.
What is NATO?
Just watch him! This Canadian Prime Minister invoked the War Measures Act to stop the FLQ.
Who is Pierre Trudeau?
Who is Yuri Gagarin?
What is the Truman Doctrine?
These segregation laws lasted in the South far longer than Federal laws.
What are Jim Crow Laws?
What are Residential Schools?
This commission looked at how to fix Canada's growing divide between Quebec and the rest.
What is the Bi and Bi Commission?
This shiny 1957 satellite is the first thing humans put into space.
What is Sputnik?
The best of friends? The Soviets and this country break up over de-Stalinization, the Korean War, and... India.
What is China?
This 1950s war ended with two countries instead of one; one thing unified was the American army, which became de-segregated during it.
What is the Korean War?
This period of regular, forced seizure of Indigenous children for adoption into often non-Indigenous households became known, colloquially, as this:
This accord never made it to a referendum - they would've seen Quebec recognized as a distinct society.
What is the Meech Lake Accord?
This popular American president said "we choose to go to the moon, not because it is easy but because it is hard". He also stared down the Soviets in Cuba, and, although he wouldn't be alive to see the worst of it, escalated the Vietnam War.
Who is John F Kennedy?
Don't like it? Stop it! If you're a permanent member of this, you get a veto to do it.
What is the UN Security Council?
This modern-day commission set out to right the wrongs of the Residential Schools system.
What is the Truth and Reconciliation Commission?
DAILY DOUBLE!!!
Bill 101 changed Quebec to have this, and only this official language.
DAILY DOUBLE!!!!!
Don't get too noisy or anything, but this post-Duplessis period saw Quebec strengthen and rid itself of corruption.
This controversial WWII office-supply-themed operation sees former Nazis getting a chance at redemption - through working at NASA.
What is Operation Paperclip?
This shoe-waving politician takes over for Stalin.
Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
Martin Luther King Jr and this man both stood tall as leaders of the Civil Rights movement - and, like Bobby and John Kenneddy, both were assassinated.
Who is Malcolm X?
Charlottetown? Voted down! It would've granted Indigenous self-government, recognized Quebec as a distinct society, and decentralized federal power to this:
What are the provinces?