1945-1968

Question 1

What does IMF stand for?

Answer 1

International Monetary Fund

Question 2

What is the World Bank?

Answer 2

An international financial institution that provides loans and grants.

Question 3

What does GATT stand for?

Answer 3

General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade

Question 4

What is the WTO?

Answer 4

World Trade Organization

Question 5

What is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?

Answer 5

A milestone document that proclaims the inalienable rights of all human beings.

Question 6

What was the Korean War?

Answer 6

A conflict between North Korea and South Korea from 1950 to 1953.

Question 7

What was the Cold War?

Answer 7

A period of geopolitical tension between the Soviet Union and the United States after World War II.

Question 8

What was the Suez Crisis?

Answer 8

A diplomatic and military confrontation in late 1956 involving Egypt, Israel, France, and the UK.

Question 9

What does NATO stand for?

Answer 9

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

Question 10

Who was Gouzenko?

Answer 10

Igor Gouzenko, a Soviet cipher clerk who defected to Canada in 1945.

Question 11

What is the DEW line?

Answer 11

Distant Early Warning Line, a system of radar stations in the Arctic.

Question 12

What was the Bretton Woods Conference?

Answer 12

A 1944 meeting that established the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.

Question 13

What are Displaced Persons?

Answer 13

Individuals who have been forced to leave their homes due to conflict or persecution.

Question 14

Who was Lester B. Pearson?

Answer 14

A Canadian Prime Minister and Nobel Peace Prize laureate.

Question 15

What was the Avro Arrow?

Answer 15

A Canadian supersonic interceptor aircraft project that was cancelled in 1959.

Question 16

Who was Louis St Laurent?

Answer 16

A Canadian Prime Minister from 1948 to 1957.

Question 17

Who was John Diefenbaker?

Answer 17

A Canadian Prime Minister from 1957 to 1963.

Question 18

What is the Bill of Rights?

Answer 18

A federal statute enacted in 1960 to protect individual rights in Canada.

Question 19

What is the Trans Canada Highway?

Answer 19

A network of highways that spans Canada from coast to coast.

Question 20

What is the St Lawrence Seaway?

Answer 20

A system of locks and canals that allows ships to travel from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes.

Question 21

What is the Trans Canada Pipeline?

Answer 21

A major pipeline system that transports oil and gas across Canada.

Question 22

What is the Canada Pension Plan?

Answer 22

A social insurance program that provides retirement income to Canadians.

Question 23

What is Universal Healthcare?

Answer 23

A healthcare system that provides coverage to all citizens.

Question 24

What was the Flag Debate?

Answer 24

A political controversy in Canada regarding the design of the national flag in the 1960s.

Question 25

What was Newfoundland & Confederation?

Answer 25

The joining of Newfoundland to Canada in 1949.

Question 26

What was the Quiet Revolution?

Answer 26

A period of rapid social and political change in Quebec during the 1960s.

Question 27

What did De Gaulle mean by 'Vive le Quebec Libre'?

Answer 27

A phrase expressing support for Quebec's independence, spoken by French President Charles de Gaulle in 1967.

Question 28

What is Indigenous Enfranchisement?

Answer 28

The process of granting Indigenous peoples the rights of citizenship in Canada.

Question 29

What was the Sixties Scoop?

Answer 29

The practice of removing Indigenous children from their families and placing them in non-Indigenous homes.

Question 30

What was the High Arctic Relocation?

Answer 30

The forced relocation of Inuit families to the High Arctic in the 1950s.

Question 31

Who was Viola Desmond?

Answer 31

A Canadian civil rights activist known for her refusal to leave a whites-only section of a movie theater.

Question 32

Who was Everitt Klippert?

Answer 32

A Canadian man who was convicted for being homosexual and fought for LGBTQ rights.

Question 33

What is the Wolfenden Report?

Answer 33

A 1957 report that recommended decriminalizing homosexual acts in private.

Question 34

Who was Lincoln Alexander?

Answer 34

The first Black Member of Parliament in Canada and later the first Black Lieutenant Governor of Ontario.

Question 35

Who was Hugh Burnett?

Answer 35

A civil rights activist who fought against racial discrimination in Canada.

Question 36

Who was Donald Moore?

Answer 36

A prominent figure in the fight for civil rights for Black Canadians.

Question 37

What is Africville?

Answer 37

A historic Black community in Halifax, Nova Scotia, that was demolished in the 1960s.

Question 38

What was the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters?

Answer 38

The first Black labor union in North America, founded in 1925.

Question 39

What was the Royal Commission on the Status of Women?

Answer 39

A 1970 commission that examined the status of women in Canada and recommended changes.