What was the biggest selling household item in the 1950's?
100
Mikhail Gorbachev
What is Who was the man responsible for the end of the Cold War?
200
People who are left homeless from war
Refugee
200
38th
On June 25, 1950, North Korea crossed this parallel on the globe to enter South Korea?
200
The iron curtain was this imaginary line drawn between Eastern and Western Germany where people could not cross.
What is the iron curtain?
200
Hockey Night in Canada
What did CBC Television offer?
200
Glasnost and Perestroika
What was Gorbachev's two policies?
300
Someone who stops a war/fight in progress
Peacemaker
300
Egypt
What country wanted to nationalize the canal?
300
Igor Gouzenko
Who was a Soviet Spy in Canada?
300
3.5 million
How many cars were bought in the 1950's?
300
Cross into neighbouring borders
Under Gorbachev's rule, what were Eastern European countries allowing their people to do?
400
Soviet Union and the US built more powerful nuclear weapons to try to have the most effective weapons of mass destruction
Arms Race
400
Canada’s neutral stance allowed Pearson to present proposals to the Arab States without arousing their suspicion
Name one of Canada's contributions.
400
Begun June 1948 – Cargo planes dropped food, fuel and supplies all day, every day.
In 1949, Russians called off the blockade
1961 Berlin wall is built!
What is the Berlin Airlift?
400
The baby boom is the period between 1946 – 1965 when there was a rapid increase in the number of babies born
What is the baby boom?
400
The Berlin Wall
What was torn down in 1961?
500
Long range rocket with a bomb
Ballistic Missile
500
North American Air Defense Command. It is between Canada and the United States.
What is NORAD? Who is it between?
500
Stalin, Churchill, Roosevelt
Who were the three leaders that emerged from the Yalta Conference after WWII?
500
2 million
How many immigrants came to Canada between 1945 - 1960?
500
15
In the early 1990's, the Soviet Union had broken into how many countries?