Question

Communist party leader Manuel Figueroa won a landmark court case in this country that smoothed the pathway for small electoral parties to stand in federal elections. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this country that Soviet Embassy clerk Igor Gouzenko defected to in 1945, three days after the end of World War II.
ANSWER: Canada [accept Figueroa v Canada (AG)]
[10e] The Gouzenko defection is sometimes considered the first action of this period of geopolitical posturing between the Western and Eastern Blocs characterized by a nuclear arms race.
ANSWER: Cold War
[10m] Upon defecting, Gouzenko offered proof of a Soviet spy ring in Canada that prompted the government to deploy an inquiry empowered by this statute, which was invoked again a couple decades later by Pierre Trudeau during the October Crisis.
ANSWER: War Measures Act
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Georgia Tech CEmory A010010
Georgia Tech AGeorgia A1010020
Georgia BTennessee A010010
Georgia Tech BGeorgia Tech D010010
BirminghamEdinburgh010010
Cambridge AWarwick010010
DurhamImperial B0101020
Imperial ACambridge B0101020
BristolOxford010010
George Washington AGeorge Washington B010010
Maryland AJohns Hopkins0101020
GeorgetownMaryland B010010
Kenyon BMichigan B010010
Ohio State A Michigan A 010010
Ohio State BKenyon A 010010
Arizona StateBoston College010010
FarrellmagnetismZen and the Art of Buzzing0101020
MSU A and FriendGanon Evans Fan Club010010
TAG Magnet: Taylor's VersionHCC010010
Texas ATAMU0101020
Texas BTexas C010010
South Carolina BDuke010010
North Carolina AJames Madison A010010
North Carolina BJames Madison B010010
South Carolina ANC State10101030