COLD WAR Computer Lab Activity

Names: _________&_____________

Use the Internet to help you complete the answers to the following questions.
1.

Find a Cold War map that shows you the two sides and cut and paste it to this sheet.

2.

Find a copy of the United Nations (crest / logo / symbol) cut and paste it in the space
below:
A) What is the United Nations: ____________________
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B)

When was it formed? _________________________

Who is the current head of the United Nations?

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C)

D)

Today, how many countries make up the UN? _____

What was the UN designed to do?

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E)

3.

A) Find a copy of Winston Churchills famous Iron Curtain speech and copy and
paste and link of it below.

B) What did Churchill mean when he used the expression Iron Curtain?
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4. Complete the timeline below by showing how Germany and specifically the city of
Berlin played a role in the Cold War.

5. What was the Marshall Plan? How was this sign that the world had learned its lesson
from the Treaty of Versailles?
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6. Find a picture of Igor Gouzenko and paste it in the space provided.

A)

Who was Igor Gouzenko? _____________________

What did he do? _____________________________

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B)

C)

When did the RCMP question him? ______________

What did the RCMP think of his story at first? _____

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D)

Why was the Gouzenko Affair significant to the Cold

War? ______________________________________
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E)

What eventually happened to Igor Gouzenko? _______

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F)

7. Find a map of Korea and print, cut and paste it in the space provided. (hint! try CNN
Cold War history)
A)
When did the Korean War occur? _______
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Who initiated the Korean War? (With whose

help?) _________________________________
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B)

C)
How did the Western World (UN) respond to the
aggression? ___________________________
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D)
Approximately how many Canadians fought in
Korea ___________
E)
What was the final outcome of the Korean War?
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F)
Using arrows show the military movements on
the map you pasted to this assignment

8.

Find a map showing those countries that belong to NATO and the Warsaw Pact and
print, cut and paste it in the space provided (you may need to print two separate
maps)

What is NATO? (What does it stand for and what was its purpose?)
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B) When was NATO formed?
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A)

C) List those countries that originally belonged to NATO and those that later
joined
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D) What was the Warsaw Pact?
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E) When was the Warsaw Pact formed?
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F)
List those countries that belonged to the Pact?
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9.

A) What is NORAD? (What does it stand for and what was its purpose?)
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B) find a map of North America that shows the DEW line and print, cut and paste it in
the space provided.

Canada and the United States

10. Find a picture of the Avro Arrow and print, cut and paste it in the space provided?

What was the Avro Arrow designed to do?

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A)

B) What major issue arose with the Avro Arrow?

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C) What was the eventual fate of the Avro Arrow?
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D) Why was the Avro Arrow significant? ___________________________________
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11.

What did President Kennedy learn the Soviets were building in Cuba in October
1962? _________________________________________________

12.

Find a map that shows how close Cuba is to North America and print, cut and paste it
in the space provided.

A)

How did the U.S. respond to this threat? What

did Kennedy demand of the Soviets?
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B)

What did Kennedy ask of Canada? _______

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C)

How did Diefenbaker respond Kennedys

Request? ____________________________
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How did Canadians respond the Diefenbakers actions? ________________________

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Canada and Britain
D)

13.

Describe the relationship that existed between Canada and Britain after the War?
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14.

Find a picture of the Suez Canal and print, cut and paste it into the space provided.
A)
What did Gamel Abdul Nasser, president
of Egypt, do in 1956 that triggered the
Suez Crisis? __________________________
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Describe the strategic importance of the Suez

Canal. ________________________________
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B)

C)
What did Britain and France do in response to
Nassers first, nationalization of the canal and second, refusal to withdraw with
Israel? _____________________________________________________________
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How did the USSR respond to what has happening between Britain,
France and Egypt?
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D)

E)
Canada saw herself having to choose between siding with her Western
Allies (U.S.) or with the Commonwealth. Which did she choose and why?
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F)
How did Canadas Lester B. Pearson, with the UN resolve the crisis?
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How does the Suez Crisis help us understand the relationship between
Canada and her Empire (Britain)?
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G)

15) What was Canadas role in the Vietnam War? _____________________________

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