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Question 1 (1 point)

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The crisis that led to the creation of a UN peacekeeping force occurred in which country?

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	Israel
	Jordan
	Lebanon
	Egypt

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Question 2 (1 point)

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What suggestion did Canada’s Lester Pearson make as a way to settle the Suez Crisis?

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	To stop all Israeli ships from going through the Suez Canal.
	Have the United Nations take control of the Suez Canal.
	Establish a buffer zone between Egyptian and Israeli forces.
	Establish a mulitnational peacekeeping force to maintain ceacefires.

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How did North America become vulnerable to attacks after World War II?

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	The development of nuclear weapons in Canada made North America vulnerable to attack.
	The development of new weapons technologies made North America vulnerable to attack.
	The development of nuclear weapons meant that Europe would not be attacked.
	The development of NATO made Europe less likely to become involved in a war.

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What was the major reason the US built three radar lines across Canada?

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	To help the American military protect the United States.
	To protect against direct Soviet attack from the air.
	To assist with the northern development of Canada.
	To provide jobs for Canadian military personnel.

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What was the major reason for the establishment of NORAD?

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	To place Canadian military forces under the control of the US military.
	To protect North American from a Soviet attack.
	To protect Canada from a Soviet attack.
	To place a protective shield around North America.

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Question 6 (3 points)

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Match the terms in Column I with the definitions in Column II.

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	United Nations Emergency Force
	Lester Bowles Pearson
	Suez Crisis, 1956

1.	In 1956, during the Suez Crisis, it was his work that created a United Nations peacekeeping force which was sent to the Middle East. For this he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1957.
2.	The UN group created and sent to the Suez Canal to separate and mediate between the rival armies involved in the standoff.
3.	An attempt by British and French forces to seize a strategic zone from Egypt after the government of Egypt had nationalized the canal from a British-French company. In an attempt to expand its territory, Israel supported the British-French action. The ensuing world crisis was partially solved at the UN when Canada’s Lester Pearson (Minister of External Affairs) suggested that a UN peacekeeping force be sent to the area. Pearson was awarded the Nobel Prize for Peace in the following year.

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Match the term in Column I with the definition in Column II.

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	Cold War
	North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
	Superpower
	Warsaw Pact
	Iron Curtain

1.	This name refers to the political and military rivalry between the West (USA and allies) and the Communist Bloc (USSR and allies) from the after the Second World War to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. In many ways an ideological conflict between capitalism and communism, the rivalry led to a large-scale nuclear arms race. Canada played an integral part in the conflict in part because of its geographical location between the two super powers.
2.	The division between the democratic countries of Western Europe and the communist countries of Eastern Europe. The movement of information and people across it was tightly restricted.
3.	A military alliance established in 1949 to defend Western Europe against any possible Soviet invasion. Originally, the alliance consisted of ten Eastern European nations plus Canada and the United States. The present alliance consists of 26 nations, including nine countries that formerly belonged to the Warsaw Pact.
4.	Term used to describe both the USA and the USSR between 1945 and 1989 when both countries had military power far in excess of any other nation.
5.	Post second world war military alliance of the Soviet Union and Soviet black countries.

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Question 8 (12 points)

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Match each demographic description in Column I with the correct term in Column II. (Note: not all terms will be used.)

Column I Column II

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	Site of genocide of Tutsis by Hutu majority in 1994.
	Canadian Prime Minister during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
	This status allows Canada to act as a non-threatening mediator in international disputes, building links between East and West and North and South.
	This allows certain UN countries to block UN policies or decisions.
	Alliance of western democratic nations formed after World War II.
	Formed after World War II to promote world peace and economic, social, and humanitarian issues.

1.	United Nations
2.	Rwanda
3.	Middle power
4.	John Diefenbaker
5.	NATO
6.	Veto power

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