Chapter 6 – Canada in the Post-War World: The 1950s

Multiple-Choice Questions

1. Area of Canada which experienced a b. movies

population upsurge in the post-war period: c. computer games
a. rural areas d. television
b. downtown cores of major cities
c. farms 9. Which of the following was not a
d. suburbs characteristic of early television sets?
a. they were expensive
2. Automobiles in the 1950s were not: b. transmissions were in black and white
a. large c. most Canadians could not afford one
b. flashy and covered with chrome d. most programming was American
c. fuel-efficient
d. equipped with big engines 10. Television was primarily a vehicle for:
a. news programs
3. Type of transportation which dominated the b. advertising consumer goods
1950s for many Canadians: c. educational programming
a. buses d. sports programming
b. trains
c. planes 11. The purpose of the 1951 Massey
d. automobiles Commission:
a. to investigate wartime profiteering
4. After the war, women who had worked in b. to investigate communist espionage
wartime factories: c. to investigate the state of Canadian culture
a. continued to work in factories d. to investigate the role of the Senate
b. became secretaries
c. went to college 12. Which of the following was a measure taken
d. became homemakers as a result of the findings of the 1951 Massey
Commission?
5. Between 1945 and 1964, the birth rate: a. a stronger National Film Board
a. declined rapidly from the rate between b. a CBC television network
1929–1945 c. the Canada Council for the Arts
b. stayed the same as between 1929–1945 d. all of these
c. rose slightly from the rate between 1929– e. a and b only
1945
d. increased greatly from the rate between 13. The purpose of the Canada Council for the
1929–1945 Arts:
a. to oversee the creative process of artists
6. New social group which appeared in post-war and writers
Canada: b. to establish a governing body for Canadian
a. a large population of old people artists
b. teenagers c. to provide loans to artists and writers
c. youths d. to provide grants to artists and writers
d. young adults
14. The purpose of the CRTC (Canadian Radio-
7. Type of music this group listened to: television and Telecommunications
a. country wwing Commission):
b. jazz a. to censor Canadian radio and television
c. rock ‘n’ roll b. to regulate the amount of foreign material
d. crooners in broadcasts in Canada
c. to ban foreign broadcasts into Canada
8. New form of entertainment in Canada in the d. to fund Canadian television programming
1950s:
a. radio
15. Between 1945 and 1960, most immigrants to d. received a $2000 bonus from the
Canada came from: government
a. Britain
b. Europe 22. Which province benefitted most from the
c. Asia 1950s boom in manufacturing?
d. the United States a. B.C.
b. Québec
16. Until the 1960s, immigrants from which region c. Ontario
were preferred? d. Nova Scotia
a. the United States
b. Southern Europe 23. Between 1945 and 1960, wages in Canada:
c. Asia a. stayed the same
d. Britain and Northern Europe b. dropped
c. rose slightly
17. Most immigrants in the post-war period d. more than doubled
settled:
a. in large cities in central Canada 24. He was elected Prime Minister in 1957:
b. on farms a. William Lyon Mackenzie King
c. in the Maritimes b. Louis St. Laurent
d. in northern Canada c. John Diefenbaker
d. Lester Pearson
18. Which of the following were changes which
took place for Aboriginal peoples in the 25. The primary reason for the Liberal defeat of
1950s? 1957:
a. residential schools were no longer a. their campaign, which was based solely on
compulsory their record
b. the Indian Act was abolished b. their defence policy
c. the federal government began a policy of c. strikes and labour unrest
Aboriginal self-determination d. John Diefenbaker's energetic campaign
d. the federal government agreed to land
claims negotiations 26. Political party which won 208 seats in the
1958 election (the largest majority in
19. Which of the following is not associated with Canadian history):
Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent? a. Liberals
a. the Massey Commission b. Conservatives
b. appointing the first Canadian Governor c. CCF
General d. Social Credit
c. creating an amending formula for the BNA
Act 27. Between 1945 and 1960, the economy of
d. admitting Newfoundland as a province Canada:
a. was depressed
20. Maurice Duplessis was not associated with: b. grew slightly
a. bribery and corruption c. was prosperous
b. unions d. was stagnant
c. traditional Québec culture
d. encouraging foreign investment 28. Economic conditions in the 1950s were
characterized by:
21. Returning veterans from the Second World a. high unemployment
War: b. inflation
a. received no financial assistance from the c. a series of depressions
government d. none of these
b. could choose from a variety of benefit
options 29. Which social development did not take place
c. were not allowed to return to their pre-war during the 1950s?
jobs a. the 'baby boom'
b. increased immigration
 c. political stability a. made the DEW Line obsolete
d. a sharp rise in divorce rates b. forced the superpowers to abandon the
Cold War
30. Which of the following was not a c. was solely for space exploration
technological innovation which affected d. lowered fears of a nuclear war
consumers in the 1950s?
a. television 37. Canada is known as a:
b. computers a. great power
c. transistor radios b. little power
d. vinyl c. middle power
d. moral power
31. An unforeseen consequence of many
industrial processes that developed during 38. International Peace Organization created in
the 1950s: 1945:
a. the need for long term worker training a. League of Nations
b. land and water pollution b. Cooperative Nations
c. resentment in Québec and the Maritimes c. United Nations
d. increased dependency on the United d. British Commonwealth of Nations
States
39. International organization that Canada helped
32. Igor Gouzenko was: found in 1945:
a. a star forward for the Toronto Maples Leafs a. the League of Nations
b. Canada’s most decorated soldier of the b. NATO
Second World War c. The United Nations (UN)
c. the Soviet ambassador to Canada during d. the Organization of American States (OAS)
the 1950s
d. a Soviet embassy clerk who provided 40. Defensive alliance that Canada joined in
evidence of a Soviet spy ring 1949:
a. NORAD
33. The Cold War developed because of: b. NATO
a. an American fear of Soviet plans to take c. UN
over the world d. OAS
b. a Soviet fear of Western invasion
c. the incompatibility of the communist and 41. In which of the following nations did the
capitalist socio-economic systems United States not try to stop the spread of
d. all of these communism?
e. a and b only a. Korea
b. Germany
34. The purpose of the Pinetree Line and the c. Vietnam
DEW Line: d. Mexico
a. to detect communist infiltrators
b. to detect incoming Soviet long range 42. The war that Canadians fought in during the
bombers early 1950s:
c. to detect incoming Soviet missiles a. Korean
d. to provide a Canada-wide system of air b. Chinese
traffic control c. Vietnamese
d. Indonesian
35. Type of weapon which caused great fear and
anxiety during the Cold War: 43. The Korean War began:
a. tanks a. when South Korea invaded North Korea
b. chemical weapons b. when North Korea invaded South Korea
c. nuclear weapons c. when China invaded South Korea
d. space weapons d. when the United States invaded North
Korea
36. The development of ICBMs (Intercontinental
Ballistic Missiles):
44. The UN was able to send troops to intervene c. Hungary
in the Korean War because: d. Vietnam
a. the Soviet Union didn’t control North Korea
b. the Soviet Union feared an American 49. As a result of the Suez Crisis in 1956:
attack if they opposed intervention a. Canada went to war in the Middle East
c. the Soviet Union was boycotting the UN at b. Canadian diplomats helped to solve the
the time crisis peacefully
d. the Soviet Union was opposed to North c. the United States invaded Egypt
Korean aggression d. Egypt attacked Israel

45. The purpose of the UN Security Council: 50. The Suez Crisis developed in 1956:
a. to maintain world peace and security a. when Egypt nationalized the Suez Canal
b. to oversee UN humanitarian activities b. when the Soviet Union made an alliance
c. to condemn the acts of aggressor nations with Egypt
d. to consider the admission of new nations c. when Israel invaded the Sinai peninsula
into the UN d. when the United States took over the Suez
Canal
46. Which of the following is not a mission of the
United Nations? 51. Nations which objected to Egypt’s
a. to promote collective security nationalization of the Suez Canal:
b. to assist nations financially a. the United States and Canada
c. to provide humanitarian assistance b. Britain and France
d. to impose democracy on member nations c. the Soviet Union and the United States
d. Britain and the United States
47. The Korean War ended:
a. when the North surrendered in 1951 52. The innovative solution of Lester Pearson to
b. with a peace treaty in 1952 the Suez Crisis:
c. with a ceasefire in 1953 a. the UN to take over control of the Suez
d. when the Americans used atomic weapons Canal
in 1950 b. a UN peacekeeping force to prevent a
resumption of hostilities
48. International crisis which was resolved by the c. UN involvement on the side of Egypt
actions of Lester Pearson of Canada: d. a UN Commission of Inquiry to find a
a. Panama permanent solution to the conflict
b. Suez