Cold War terms and concepts
Cold War Canada
People to Know
Dates and timelines
Policies
100
Theory adopted in U.S. foreign policy after World War II according to which the “fall” of a noncommunist state to communism would precipitate the fall of noncommunist governments in neighbouring states.
What is "domino theory"?
100
True or false: Canada was a founding member of NATO?
What is True?
100
Secretary of State under Dwight Eisenhower, advocated an aggressive stance against communism throughout the world. 
Who is John Foster Dulles?
100
What was first: the Cuban Missile Crisis or the Suez Crisis?
What is the Suez Crisis?
100
This was a foreign policy strategy followed by the United States during the Cold War. First laid out by George F. Kennan in 1947, the policy stated that communism needed to be contained and isolated, or else it would spread to neighboring countries.
What is "containment"?
200
This is the strategy of forcing a change in the major policies of a state, usually by replacing its ruling regime. It contrasts with containment. 
What is "rollback"?
200
These long range, nuclear capable, ground to air missiles were bought by Canada in 1958, causing a controversy around Canadian sovereignty and Canada's role in the Cold War.
What are Bomarc Missiles?
200
He was the Prime Minister of Canada when Kennedy was President.
Who was John Diefenbaker? (or Lester Pearson)
200
True or false: Jimmy Carter and Richard Nixon were president in the same decade.
What is True?
200
The foreign policy of Eisenhower and Dulles was know as this.
What is the "New Look"?
300
A period of the Cold War marked by the relaxation of strained relations, roughly lasted throughout the 70's until the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
What is "détente"?
300
True or False: Canada didn't fight in either Korea or Vietnam.
What is False? Canada sent troops to Korea; not to Vietnam.
300
He led the communist witch hunt in the early Cold War in the USA.
Who is Senator Joseph McCarthy?
300
True or false: St. Laurent and Eisenhower were contemporaries?
What is True?
300
Johnson's domestic policies were called this.
What is the Great Society?
400
The practice of forcing a confrontation in order to achieve a desired out-come; in the Cold War, this meant using nuclear weapons as a deterrent to communist expansion around the world.
What is "brinkmanship"?
400
This was a law in Quebec that allowed the Attorney General of Quebec to close off access to property suspected of being used to propagate or disseminate communist propaganda.
What is the Padlock Law? (officially called "Act to Protect the Province Against Communistic Propaganda")
400
Name one of the two foreign policy advisor's in Carter's cabinet (that gave out mixed messages).
Who are Zbigniew Brzezinski and Cyrus Vance? (Brzezinski, more of a 'hard liner' was national security advisor, and Vance, who took a more patient and intellectual stance, was secretary of state.)
400
True or false: the Iran Hostage Crisis, Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, Helsinki Accords and the SALT II treaty all happened during the Carter administration.
What is False? (not the Helsinki Accords)
400
JFK's policy towards Latin America was called this.
What is the "Alliance for Progress"?
500
Belief that global dominance depends on control of a series of regional powers running from Indochina to Southern Africa, such as Iran and Afghanstan (proposed by Brzezinski under Carter).
What is the "Arc or Crisis"?
500
This was a top secret Government of Canada project to identify and observe suspected Canadian communists and crypto-communists during the height of the Cold War.
What is Profunc? (stands for "PROminent FUNCtionaries of the communist party")
500
He was impeached in the Watergate scandal. 
Who was Richard Nixon? 
500
Put these Presidents in order: Nixon, Eisenhower, Johnson, Kennedy.
What is: Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon?
500
Trudeau's foreign policy, which tried to expand and strengthen Canada's foreign partnerships with Latin America, Japan and the EEC (European Economic Community) as a way of forging independence from the United States, was know as this.
What is the "Third Option"?