Canada A People's History Episode 15 Cold War Questions

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CHC2D Canada: A People’s History Cold War Canada - “Comfort and Fear - 1946-1964” Opening Vignette – Igor Gouzenko (to 3:41) 1. What did Igor Gouzenko’s defection and the information he carried reveal to the West? 2. The night editor of the Ottawa Journal claims Gouzenko declared “It’s war. It’s Russia” as he walked into the news room. Why were these words unexpected yet prophetic? 3. What were the Soviets after? Seeing Red (32:06) 4. Lester Pearson, Minister of External Affairs, saw Canada as “an independent force for international peace and goodwill”. What difficulties did the Cold War present to Pearson’s vision of Canada’s international role? 5. Why did the West fear communism? 6. What is NATO and what was its purpose? 7. What were Pearson’s contributions to the treaty and what was the American response? 8. Describe the Korean War and Canada’s contribution to it. 9. How did Pearson and the American government again differ – this time over the Korean War? 10. This fear of communism came to be known as the “Red Scare” and in the United States it was manifested in McCarthyism - Junior Senator Joseph McCarthy’s hunt for communists and communist sympathizers in America. What were McCarthy’s goals? 11. To what extent did the “Red Scare” emerge in Canada? 12. What was Pearson’s response to the phenomenon? “On Guard for Thee” (45:22) 13. On August 29, 1949 the Soviets exploded their first atomic bomb. How did this development make the 1950s a new stage in the Cold War? How did the United States and Canada utilize Canada’s far north to respond to this threat? 14. How did Canada use Inuit families to assert its northern sovereignty? 15. Describe the challenges faced by the Inuit on Ellesmere and Cornwallis Islands? 16. What threat to global peace and security emerged in the Middle East? Available: https://curio.ca/en/video/canada-a-peoples-history-episode-15-comfort-and-fear- 1750/

CHC2D 17. How were Canada and Pearson able to move to fulfill Pearson’s vision of Canada as a ‘middle power’ in addressing this challenge? 18. How did McCarthy’s witch-hunt destroy lives in the US and in Canada too? What was Pearson’s stand on the persecution? 19. How did Canadian sentiment change in the aftermath of Herbert Norman’s suicide? The Shadow of Nuclear War (1:34:29) 20. How was the “peace and prosperity” of the 1950s a thinly veiled façade? The fear of a nuclear attack, and people were still afraid of the atomic bomb 21. In 1957 Canada joined NORAD – What is NORAD and how does it represent a continental defence strategy? NORAD is America’s continental air defense plan, it protects America from attacks 22. What was the DEW Line? The Distant Early Warning Line, or DEW Line, was a series of radar stations across the arctic, from Alaska through Canada over Greenland to Iceland 23. How did John Diefenbaker’s decision to scrap the Avro Arrow and replace its intended role with BOMARC missiles spark a decade’s long debate over Canada’s nuclear role? The public were deeply skeptical about the wisdom of Canada becoming a nuclear power 24. Who were the Voice of Women and what was their perspective and their mandate? What is Marion Pearson’s role in Voice of Women? The Voice of Women was a Canadian anti-nuclear group. Marian Pearon’s role in Voice of Women was that she was an honorary member. 25. Outline the positions of Prime Ministers Diefenbaker and Pearson on the nuclear issue. Pearson was against the nuclear weapons in Canada. He thought it was both unnecessary and undesirable for Canada to become a nuclear power. 26. What development sparked what came to be known as the Cuban Missile Crisis? In October 1962, the US revealed that the soviet union had secretly introduced offensive missiles into Cuba, 90 miles from the American coast. 27. How did Canada respond – consider both our Prime Minister’s response and the response of the Canadian Military. 28. What was Diefenbaker’s response to Canada’s crisis regarding its nuclear role? 29. How did Pearson’s change in strategy reflect changing public opinion? How did his decision leave his wife in an awkward position? Canada would not rid itself of nuclear weapons until 1984 though it continues to cooperate with the United States in testing delivery systems and welcoming nuclear armed ships in its ports and allows access to its airspace with permission of the Government of Canada. Available: https://curio.ca/en/video/canada-a-peoples-history-episode-15-comfort-and-fear- 1750/

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