Chap 6 Key Terms

Question 1

Massey Commission

Answer 1

a body set up by the federal government to study the state of Canadian culture

Question 2

Canada Council for the Arts

Answer 2

the group that funds Canadian artists and supports the arts in Canada

Question 3

Canada Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC)

Answer 3

the agency that regulates the amount of foreign material broadcast over the airwaves in Canada and imposes rules requiring Canadian content

Question 4

Cold War

Answer 4

a period lasting approximately from 1945 to 1989 when there was tension and hostility between the communist Soviet Union and its allies and the capitalist United States and its allies

Question 5

Communist

Answer 5

one who believes that property and the production and distribution of goods and services should be owned by the public and that the labour force should be organized for the benefit of all; the application of the theory in the Soviet Union, China, Cuba, and other countries resulted in dictatorships by leaders of communist parties

Question 6

Capitalist

Answer 6

one who believes in an economic system in which the production and distribution of goods are owned privately or by shareholders in corporations that have invested money in the hope of making a profit

Question 7

Superpowers

Answer 7

the term used to refer to the United States and Soviet Union in the post Second World War period when both were engaged in building up powerful arsenals of weapons of mass destruction as elements against aggression

Question 8

Middle Power

Answer 8

a nation that is not a superpower but has international influence

Question 9

North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)

Answer 9

the mutual defence organization set up to protect several Western European countries, Canada, and the U.S. from possible aggression from the U.S.S.R. after the Second World War

Question 10

Warsaw Pact

Answer 10

a post-Second World War military alliance established in 1955 involving the Soviet Union and the Soviet-bloc countries of Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania

Question 11

North American Aerospace Defence Command (NORAD)

Answer 11

a defence agreement signed in 1958 between Canada and the United States

Question 12

Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line

Answer 12

radar stations in northern Canada set up between 1958 and 1960 to detect Soviet activity over the North Pole

Question 13

United Nations (UN)

Answer 13

an organization established in 1945 to bring peace and security to the world