Famous People
"To each according to their abilities, to each according to their needs"
Karl Marx
"Just watch me"
Pierre Trudeau
The refusal of Kennedy and Kruschev to back down during the Cuban Missile Crisis is known as:
Right wing ideology that is heavily nationalistic and race based.
Fascism
9/11
Is credited with starting universal health care in Canada
Tommy Douglas
"Kill the Indian in the Child"
Sir John A. Macdonald
This ideology believes in an elite group of citizens in power with equality for all others
Communism
The Great Depression
1929
Implemented perestroika and glasnost in the Soviet Union
Gorbachev
"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent"
Winston Churchill
SALT is one of the famous treaties signed during this cold war era, marked as a "cooling off period" between the two superpowers
Detente
A commitment to peace and opposition to war
Pacifism
War Measures Act last used
1988
Lenin
"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!"
Ronald Reagan
A doctrine that ensured that if one nuclear power attacked another, both would be completely annihilated in retaliation.
MAD (Mutually Assured Destruction)
This ideology values individual rights, rule of law, constitutional government, and believes that democracy and free markets best protect personal freedom
Liberalism
Emergency Act last used
2021
This British economist argued that during a recession, governments should increase spending to boost demand and pull the economy out of depression
Keynes
"Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas?
Joseph Stalin
A response from the United States and its allies when the Soviet Union blockaded West Berlin in 1948.
Berlin Airlift
This ideology emphasizes maximum individual freedom, minimal government intervention, and a strong belief in free-market capitalism
Libertarianism
The fall of the Berlin Wall
1989