Unit 4 Quiz Flashcards
Tommy Douglas
Created socialized medicine in Canada
Igor Gozenko
Started the cold war by showing documents about the Soviet Union spying on Canada
Rene Levesque
Founded the Quebec Quebecois party and started the separatist movement
Irene Murdoch (Murdoch Case)
Irene did not get to receive equal amounts of her farm after her divorce, sparked a big women movement
Frank Calder (Calder Case)
Frank Calder sued the BC government and thought that all Aboriginal people still had the right to the title of their land
Viola Desmond
She was not allowed to sit in the theatre in a certain area because she was a woman. She did anyway and went to jail
Suez Crisis
The French and British controlled the Suez canal, but then Egypt tried to take over it. Britain and France decided to attack Egypt. The Soviet Union said they would give Egypt missiles, and the U.S then decided to step in.
Korean War
- North Korea became occupied by the Soviet Union
- South Korea became occupied by America
- June 1950, North Korea invaded South Korea
- UN ordered to send troops to Korea
- Canada sent soldiers, naval destroyers, air transport, and squadron
Cold War
- WW2 ends and tensions resurface as Capitalist vs. Communist countries fight
- S.U establish communism in other countries in Europe
- Allies saw this as a plan for communism to take over the world
- Britain, France, and the U.S occupy West Germany
- Soviet Union occupies East Germany
- NATO and the Warsaw Pact
- the war created tension by propaganda, gossip, distrust, and misunderstandings
How did Canada contribute to NATO?
- founding country of the alliance
- at least 5000 troops in Germany at any given time
- Kosovo War- jets involved
- 2001-2014 Canada in the Afghan war
- political involvement
October Crisis
- FLQ Separatist terrorist group arrests Quebec politicians in October 1970
- Pierre Laporte (assassinated) and James Cross
- ## Led to the controversial War Measures Act that led to many arrests without charges
The sixties Scoop
Policies in Canada wanted to separate Indigenous people from their own children.
- Gov’t said it had something to do with the minimal supervision, under-resourced, and under-serviced
- Gov’t should have sent help to the community instead
Inuit Dog Slaughter
- Dogs were killed because of the disease spreading
- Dogs were often used in hunting and transportation for Indigenous people
- Caused a lot of crisis and hurt within the Indigenous Community
Inuit Relocation
- Inuit were relocated up North and wanted to move back but worried not to challenge in the gov’t
- Asserting Canadian sovereignty
- Wanted to stop Greenlandic hunters who were poaching polar bears
- broken promises (not enough resources, could not return home after 2 years, could not remain in one community were not supplied adequate resources and shelter )
Royal Commission on the Status of Women
Florence Bird and the federal gov’t
- meetings to discuss social issues involving women
- stopped gender discrimination and agreed to pay equal
- maternity leave for up to 25 weeks
- Trudeau gov’t passed a law allowing abortion under strict circumstances, legalized contraceptives, decriminalized homosexual acts
