What does it mean?
FOREIGN POLICY?
How a country interacts with other countries to achieve its own goals.
This can be based in conflict (e.g., war) or cooperation (e.g., foreign aid)
FORCED ASSIMILATION + CULTURE GENOCIDE
Espionage is the practice of spying to obtain secret or confidential information, which was popular during the Cold War.
Who was the Soviet espionage who lived and eventually died in Mississauga?
Igor Gouzenko
What changed as a result of the Korean war?
The destruction of nearly all of Korea’s major cities and around 3 million deaths (mostly civilians)
The borders ending up the same as they were when the war started
The community of Africville was happy about their living spaces, church, and schools being demolished in the 1960s.
FAUX
forcibly demolished by the city in the 1960s under the guise of urban renewal, a deeply racist act that displaced hundreds and became a national symbol of systemic racism and struggle.
NATO?
NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization) is a large military alliance of North American and European countries focused on collective defense against threats to any member
3 SOCIAL PROGRAMS introduced in Canada during the 50s & 60s
Old Age Security (1951)
Canada Pension Plan (1965)
Medicare (1966)
The United Nations goal is
“collective security” - resolving conflicts through negotiation rather than war
The response to the Berlin Blockade was
the Airlift.
U.S. and UK forces flew over 270,000 flights, delivering over 1.5 million tons of supplies, keeping West Berlin alive for nearly a year.
ONE important feature of the 1950s and 1960s in Canada was unprecedented economic growth.
VRAI
This was influenced by:
manufacturing developed during World War II
population growth & demand for consumer products
the development of industries like oil, forestry and mining
American investment/buying Canadian natural resources
NORAD?
North American Aerospace Defense Command) is a US-Canada pact for continental aerospace defense
FOREIGN POLICY by Brian Mulroney
Signing of NAFTA (the North American Free Trade Agreement).
Created stronger links between Canada and the USA.
Although Canada did not officially participate in the Vietnam War, 500 Canadian companies supplied weapons including ___________ and ______ ________.
napalm and Agent Orange
Lester B. Pearson suggested a peacekeeping force when Britain and France invaded Egypt. He even won a Nobel Peace Prize for his efforts.
What was the crisis called?
THE SUEZ CRISIS
The move to a "points" system for immigrants shows how racism continued during the postwar period.
FAUX
Race, nationality and religion no longer decided who got in--but economic class still did!
OCTOBER CRISIS?
The Front de Liberation du Quebec (FLQ) carried out two political kidnappings — something never before seen in North America.
As a result, the federal government invoked the War Measures Act for the third time in Canadian history, and the first in peacetime.
FOREIGN POLICY by Pierre Trudeau
Improving relations with Cuba
Removing missile bases in Canada
Cutting military spending (including contributions to NATO)
Wanted Canada to be less dependent on the USA and more internationalist (diversify).
ONE reason the Soviets didn't trust the Americans was
because the other Allies refused to open a second front in WWII.
The Berlin Wall was symbolic of
the tensions dividing the world during the cold war.
John Diefenbaker was the force behind universal health care in Canada.
FAUX
Tommy Douglas was.
WARSAW PACT?
A military alliance formed in 1955 by the Soviet Union and its Eastern European satellite states as a Cold War counterbalance to NATO.
COLD WAR PROPAGANDA by Canada
CBC’s International Service (“Voice of Canada”)
Who's the hamburger-looking-man who said "An Iron Curtain has descended upon Europe" in 1946?
Winston Churchill
What is BRINKMANSHIP and what Cold War Event could you speak about pertaining it?
THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS
The world held its breath as the Soviet ships approached the blockade.
Many feared that this was "it," the long awaited and much feared nuclear war.
ONE important feature of the 1970s and 1980s in Canada was economic instability and austerity policies.
VRAI
There was a recession, the government moved away from the welfare state and brought in austerity measures (i.e., he cut social programs including old-age security and unemployment insurance)