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| A body set up by the federal government to study the state of Canadian culture |
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| Canadian Council for the Arts |
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| The group that funds Canadian artists and supports the arts in Canada |
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| Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commisions (CRTC) |
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| The agency that regulates the amount of foreign material broadcast over the airwaves in Canada and imposes rules requiring Canadian content |
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| A period lasting approximately from 1945 to 1989 when there was tension and hostility between the communist Soviet Union and its allies and the capitalist United States and its allies |
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| One who believes that property and the production and distribution of goods and services should be owned by the public and that the labour force should be organized for the benefit of all; the application of the theory in the Soviet Union, China, Cuba, and other countries resulted in dictatorships by leaders of communist parties |
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| One who believes in an economic system in which the production and distribution of goods are owned privately or by shareholders in corporations that have invested money in the hope of making a profit |
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| The term used to refer to the United States and Soviet Union in the post–Second World War period when both were engaged in building up powerful arsenals of weapons of mass destruction as deterrents against aggression |
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| A nation that is not a superpower but has international influence |
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| North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) |
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| The mutual defence organization set up to protect several Western European countries, Canada, and the U.S. from possible aggression from the U.S.S.R. after the Second World War |
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| A post–Second World War military alliance established in 1955 involving the Soviet Union and the Soviet block countries of Albania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania |
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| North American Aerospace Defence Command (NORAD) |
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| A defence agreement signed in 1958 between Canada and the United States (known as the North American Air Defence Agreement until 1981) |
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| Distant Early Warning (DEW) Line |
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| Radar stations in northern Canada set up between 1958 and 1960 to detect Soviet activity over the North Pole |
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| An organization established in 1945 to bring peace and security to the world. |
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| The Korean War was a military conflict between the Republic of Korea, supported by the United Nations, and the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, supported by the People's Republic of China and the Soviet Union. The war began on 25 June 1950 and an armistice was signed on 27 July 1953. |
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| The Avro Canada CF-105 Arrow was a delta-winged interceptor aircraft, designed and built by Avro Aircraft Limited (Canada) in Malton, Ontario, Canada, as the culmination of a design study that began in 1953 |
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| Started in 1956 when Egypt nationalized the Suez Canal. Shortly thereafter Israel, supported by France and Great Britain, invaded the Sinai Peninsula. Special peacekeeping forces, from neutral member nations, under UN command, brought an end to the hostilities |
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