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1950s Created by Educational Technology Network
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UN Society Cold War 10 20 30 40 50
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Question When was the UN formed?
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Answer 1 – 10 1945 After WWII
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Question What are four goals of the UN?
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Answer 1 – 20 Increase cooperation Keep the peace between nations
Improve standards of living Defend human rights
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Question 1 - 30 List the permanent members of the Security Council
What do they have?
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Answer 1 – 30 Great Britain, France, Soviet Union/Russia, China and USA Veto power
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Question List agencies of the UN
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Answer 1 – 40 WHO ILO UNICEF UNESCO IMF UNEF
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Question List Canadian contributions to the UN
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Answer 1 – 50 Peacekeeper Aid sent to struggling countries in Asia and Africa Rotating member of Security Council (no veto power)
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Question Give examples of Canadian culture in the 1950s
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Answer 2 – 10 Consumerism Suburbs Baby boomers Teenagers Television
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Question What did the Massey Commission find?
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Answer 2 – 20 Canadian culture needed to be protected from American influence
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Question Mandate of NFB
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Answer 2 – 30 National Film Board Create audiovisual works
“Information about Canada for Canadians”
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Question Mandate of CRTC
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Answer 2 – 40 Canadian-Radio-Television-Communication
Regulates amount of foreign content that can be played on Canadian stations
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Question Mandate of Canada Council for the Arts
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Answer 2 – 50 Provides grants (money that does not have to be paid back) to Canadian artists working on material that benefits/tributes Canada
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Question Purpose of Trans-Canada-Highway
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Answer 3 – 10 Connect Canada from coast to coast
Longest national highway in the world
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Question Purpose of Kemano Project
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Answer 3 – 20 Dam finished completion in 1952
Diverted water from the Nechako River to Kenney Dam Flood First Nations land Hydro-electric power used to support aluminum smelting in Kitimat
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Question Purpose of Trans-Canada Pipeline
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Answer 3 – 30 Finished in 1958 Carried natural gas from Alberta to Quebec
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Question Purpose of St. Lawrence Seaway
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Answer 3 – 40 Allowed large ships to travel from the Atlantic to Lake Superior System of locks Built by USA and Canada
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Question What later became an issue in Canada due to all of the “megaprojects” and industrialization?
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Answer 3 – 50 Pollution Destruction of habitat Loss of habitat
Environmental degradation
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Question Name of Russian clerk who reported a spy ring operating in Canada
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Answer 4 – 10 Igor Gouzenko
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Question Opposing ideologies in the Cold War
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Answer 4 – 20 Communism and democracy Communism and capitalism
East vs. West USSR vs. USA
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Question Purpose of NATO
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Answer 4 – 30 Protect Western Nations against a Soviet attack
Military Alliance
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Question 3 components of NORAD in Canada
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Answer 4 – 40 DEW Line Mid-Canada Line Pine-Tree Line
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Question Military Alliance of East
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Answer 4 – 50 Warsaw Pact
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Question Monetary support given to the West
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Answer 5 – 10 Marshall Plan
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Question Monetary support given to the East
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Answer 5 – 20 COMECON
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Question Name of division between East and West in Europe
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Answer 5 – 30 Iron Curtain
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Question Canada’s role during the Cold War
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Answer 5 – 40 Middle Power
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Question Significance of West Berlin and Berlin Wall in Cold War
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Answer 5 – 50 West Berlin located on Soviet side of Iron Curtain
Allies did not vacate area After Berlin Airlift, East put wall around West Berlin to prevent defectors Berlin Wall became a symbol of Cold War When wall came down in 1989, beginning of end of Cold War
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