Key Terms Pt.1
The act of reducing, limiting, or abolishing weapons.
What is Disarmament
The name given to a period of improved relations between the United States and the Soviet Union
What is Detente
The prime minister in office the same time the cold war ended
What is B.Mulroney
The two major powers in the cold war
What is the United States and the Soviet Union
The name for a person the purposely avoids being drafted for a war
What is a Draft Dodger
The barrier made by the Soviet Union to seal off itself and its eastern and central European allies from open contact with the West.
What is the Iron Curtain
The youngest prime minister in Canadian history, also one of the shortest time served as prime minister
What is Joe Clark
The country that played a major part in WW2 but took the backseat in the Cold War
What is Great Britain
The Canadian and Americans had this in there home, regularly to avoid being bombed
What is a Bomb Shelter
The United States policy using numerous strategies to prevent the spread of communism abroad.
What is Containment
The Prime minister that was known for removing nuclear weapons from Canadian soil, and establishing a friendship with Castro
What is P. Trudeau
The Eastern Europe socialist nation ruled by Joseph Stalin, and Gheorghiu Dej at the beginning of the cold war
What is Romania
The democratic countries were fighting against what system of government
What is Totalitarianism
Provided WWII veterans with money to attend college or technical school, low-interest loans to buy homes, farms, or start a business
What is the Bill Of Rights
The Prime minister that approved and carried out the Bill of Rights.
What is J. Diefenbaker
The Soviet Union invaded what country on November 4 to stop their revolution?
What is Hungary
The military strategy in which a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two or more opposing sides
What is MAD (Mutually assured destruction)
US, Britain and France organized this huge effort to get an average of 7,000 tons of supplies into the capital of Germany each day.
What is the Berlin Airlift/Berlin Blockade
The prime minister that brought in many of Canada's major updated social programs, including universal health care
What is L.Pearson
The Western and Central country was the centre for the conflict between Communism and Democracy.
What is Germany