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What UN force did Canada help establish during the Suez Crisis?
Answer: UN Emergency Force (UNEF)
This Cold War conflict began soon after the end of WW2, characterized by a stalemate at the 38th parallel.
The Korean War
The Canada Act included THIS important document outlining ______s and _________s.
Answer: The Charter of Rights and Freedoms
Rights, Freedoms
The term for destroying a group’s culture, as seen in residential schools.
Answer: What is cultural genocide?
Which 50's popularized innovation accelerated the development of mass culture and transformed advertising?
Answer: Television
Which Canadian diplomat and later PM, won the Nobel Peace Prize for resolving the Suez Crisis?
(Answer: Lester B. Pearson)
THIS PM responded to the October crisis (FLQ) with the _______ __________ Act
Pierre Trudeau
War Measures Act
This French Canadian party represents separatist pursuits for Quebec.
Parti Quebecois
What post-WW2 policy removed thousands of Indigenous children from their families, in the name of misguided saviorism?
(Answer: The Sixties Scoop)
THIS term for a young person entered popular usage in the 1950s, reflecting new tech and culture inspired marketing strategies.
Answer: Teenager
300: What Cold War defense organization did Canada and the U.S. establish?
(Answer: NORAD, North American Aerospace Defense Command)
THIS 1956 Cold War event demonstrated the Soviet Union’s policy toward revolts in satellite states.
Hungarian Uprising
Nickname for the late-night deal integral to the patriation of the constitution from Britain to Canada that excluded Quebec.
Answer: What is the Kitchen Accord or the Night of the Long Knives?
Historically a limited ability to exercise ________
has reduced the effectiveness of UN __________ operations.
force, peacekeeping
___________ in service/offering, is a characteristic of emergent business practices in the 50's, exemplified by American companies like McDonalds and Holiday Inn.
Standardization
Most Canadians opposed the BOMARC deal because they feared it made Canada a _______ and could contribute to a loss of _______ over our national defense.
Answer: target, control
After Charlottetown failed, THIS Western Canadian party gained popularity.
Answer: What is the Reform Party?
THIS Quebec premier represented traditional, conservative values until 1959.
Answer: Who is Maurice Duplessis?
Residential schools were meant to _______ and _______ Indigenous children.
Assimilate and "civilize"
400:How has the birth control pill affected society? (2)
Supported family planning
Supported women in their career pursuits
Supported gender parity
Deterred domestic violence and promoted healthy pregnancy and delivery
DAILY DOUBLE
What 3 major developments took place between the time of the Yalta and Potsdam conferences?
Churchill loses election in GBR
Roosevelt passes
US confirms nuclear weapon capability
Gorbachev's mid 80's policies of Glasnost and ____________ , translating to ___________ and restructuring signalled the beginning of the end for the Soviet Union.
Perestroika, Openness
DAILY DOUBLE
THIS clause in Meech Lake caused backlash for giving Quebec special status and led Manitoba MLA Elijah Harper to vote against the accord, because??
Answer: What is the Distinct Society Clause?
Answer: Indigenous peoples had not been given the same status as distinct societies
500: What post-WWII phenomenon led to urban sprawl in Canada? (2)
(Answer: Suburbanization, baby boom, automobiles and automobile culture)