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Question 1

NATO

Answer 1

1949 North Atlantic Treaty Organization

Question 2

Warsaw Pact:

Question 3

It was a defense treaty between eight communist countries in Central and Eastern Europe. It allowed the Soviet Union to control the region with military forces and was their answer to NATO.

Question 4

A collective defense treaty among eight communist countries of Central and Eastern Europe. A means for Soviet communists to control Central and Eastern Europe with military forces. A Soviet military-based reaction to NATO

Question 5

Massey Commission

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Canada Council for the Arts:

Answer 6

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

Question 7

Canada Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC):

Answer 7

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

Question 8

Cold war:

Answer 8

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 9

Communist: One who believes that property and the production and distribution of goods and services should be owned by the public and that the labor force should be organized for the benefit of all; the application of the theory in the Soviet Union

Answer 9

China

Question 10

Capitalist: 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 11

Superpowers: 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 and mass destruction as deterrents against aggression

Question 12

Middle power: a nation that is not a superpower but has international influence

Question 13

North American Aerospace Defence Command (NORAD): the mutual defence organization set up to protect several Western European countries

Answer 13

Canada

Question 14

Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line: radar stations in northern Canada set up between 1958 and 1960 to detect Soviet activity over the North Pole

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United Nations:

Answer 15

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