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FINAL JEOPARDY
Cold
War
Final Jeopardy
As a result of being called soft
on communism President
Truman issued these to
combat that accusation
Depression One - $100
Name given to the makeshift
shantytowns built in vacant lots
during the Depression.
Depression One - $200
Facing the financial crisis of the Depression,
WW I veterans tried to pressure Congress to pay
them their retirement bonuses early. Angry
veterans marched on Washington, D.C., and
Hoover called in the army to get the veterans out
of there.
Depression One - $300
Created in 1932 to make loans to
banks, insurance companies, and
railroads, it was intended to
provide emergency funds to help
businesses overcome the effects
of the Depression
Depression One - $400
Congressional compromise serving
special interest, it raised duties on
agricultural and manufactured
imports. It may have contributed to
the spread of the international
depression.
Depression One - $500
Many of the advisers who helped
Roosevelt during his presidential
candidacy continued to aid him
after he entered the White House
Depression Two - $100
A federal agency which insures
bank deposits, created by the
Glass-Steagall Banking Reform
Act of 1933.
Depression Two - $200
Created to supervise stock
exchanges and to punish fraud in
securities trading
Depression Two - $300
It offered contracts to farmers to reduce
their output of designated products. It
paid farmers for processing taxes on
these products, and made loans to
farmers who stored crops on their
farms. The Supreme Court declared it
unconstitutional.
Depression Two - $400
One of the most important features of
the Second New Deal established a
retirement for persons over 65 funded
by a tax on wages paid equally by
employee and employer
Depression Two - $500
March 11, 1933 - Roosevelt
closed all banks and forbade the
export of gold or redemption of
currency in gold.
Pre - WWII - $100
Japan seized this land from China
to get access to oil fields
in 1931
Pre - WWII - $200
German fascist dictator. Leader of the
National Socialist Workers Party, or
Nazis. Elected Chancellor of Germany
in 1933, he quickly established himself
as an absolute dictator.
Pre - WWII - $300
Authorized the president to transfer, lend,
or lease any article of defense equipment to
any government whose defense was
deemed vital to the defense of the U.S.
Allowed the U.S. to send supplies and
ammunition to the Allies without
technically becoming a co-belligerent.
Pre - WWII - $400
In this speech Franklin D. Roosevelt
compared Fascist aggression to a
contagious disease, saying
democracies must unite to quarantine
aggressor nations.
Pre - WWII - $500
On the Yantze River in China,
Japanese aircraft sank an
American gunboat escorting
tankers. The U.S. accepted
Japan's apologies
WWII - $100
Led by Eisenhower, over a million
troops (the largest invasion force in
history) stormed the beaches at
Normandy and began the process of
re-taking France. The turning point of
World War II.
WWII - $200
A secret U.S. project for the
construction of the atomic bomb.
WWII - $300
Jan. 14-23, 1943 - FDR and Churchill met in
Morocco to settle the future strategy of the
Allies following the success of the North
African campaign. They decided to launch an
attack on Italy through Sicily before initiating an
invasion into France over the English Channel.
Also announced that the Allies would accept
nothing less than Germany's unconditional
surrender to end the war.
WWII - $400
This was the presidential order
that sent Japanese Americans to
internment camps
WWII - $500
Government agency which
successful combated inflation by
fixing price ceilings on
commodities and introducing
rationing programs during World
War II.
Cold War One - $100
Eastern European countries
conquered by the U.S.S.R. during
the Cold War.
Cold War One - $200
A member of the State
Department, George Kennan felt
that the best way to keep
Communism out of Europe was
to hold the Soviets wherever they
tried to spread their power.
Cold War One - $300
Stated that the U.S. would
support any nation threatened by
Communism especially Greece
and Turkey
Cold War One - $400
This proposed massive and
systematic American economic
aid to Europe to revitalize the
European economies after WWII
and help prevent the spread of
Communism
Cold War One - $500
Chartered April, 1949. The 11
member western nations agreed
to fight for each other if attacked.
It is an international military
force for enforcing its charter.
Cold War Two- $100
It was the first hot war in the
Cold War era
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To counter the NATO buildup, the
Soviets formed this military
organization with the nations of
Eastern Europe. Also gave Russia
an excuse for garrisoning troops in
these countries.
Cold War Two- $300
Dulles and Eisenhower warned
the Soviets that if aggression was
undertaken, the U.S. would
retaliate with its full nuclear
arsenal against the Soviet Union
itself. However, the U.S. would
not start conflicts.
Cold War Two- $400
The principle of not backing
down in a crisis, even if it meant
taking the country to the brink of
war. Policy of both the U.S. and
U.S.S.R. during the Cold War.
Cold War Two- $500
Eisenhower proposed and obtained a
joint resolution from Congress
authorizing the use of U.S. military
forces to intervene in any country that
appeared likely to fall to communism.
Used in the Middle East.
WWII TWO- $200
Who were the two main
allies of the United
States during WWII?
WWII TWO- $400
This was the military strategy
in the Pacific Theater to
defeat the Japanese
WWII TWO- $600
This congressional action not
only raised money for World
War II but also contributed to
the national debt
WWII TWO- $800
Which WWII Conference did
Stalin agree to hold free
elections in the countries of
Eastern Europe?
WWII TWO- $1000
The following four characterize which group
of people
• worked in factories.
• established themselves as a vital part of
the economy.
• participated in the war effort.
• defined a new role in society
WWII THREE - $200
One of the most important
domestic results of the
war effort was the swift
end of the
WWII THREE - $400
This 1941 statement that declared that
both Britain and America would
support self-determination, freedom of
the seas, joint disarmament, and
territorial integrity for all after World
War II ended
WWII THREE - $600
This declined as a result of
mobilization of industry for
WWII
WWII THREE - $800
This Executive Order required
defense industries to make
jobs available without
discrimination based on race,
creed, color, or national origin
WWII THREE - $1000
This African-American labor
leader demanded equal
employment opportunities for
blacks during World War II.
Harry S Truman - $200
The main reason for the defeat of
most of Truman’s Fair Deal
programs was opposition of the
________________ in Congress.
Harry S Truman - $400
The following four deals with what
event
• the surrender of Japan
• the end of WWII
• destruction of two Japanese cities
• the deaths of thousands of civilians
Harry S Truman - $600
Truman’s foreign policy
revolved around the concept
of
Harry S Truman - $800
During Truman’s presidency these four issues
dealt with what nation
• establishment in Communist governments
in Eastern Europe
• access to Berlin
• Marshall Plan aid
• Development and control of atomic
weapons
Harry S Truman - $1000
The following four issues deal with what event
• whether to expand the war by attacking China
• whether Congress should have declared war
• the removal of General Douglass MacArthur
• the policies of containment and “limited war”
Dwight D. Eisenhower - $200
“We declare that however acute the two
systems – the socialist and the capitalist –
we must solve questions in dispute among
states not by war, but by diplomatic
negotiation.” This statement by Nikita
Khrushchev in 1957 expressed the idea of
Dwight D. Eisenhower - $400
U.S. intervention in Iran in
1953 and Guatemala in
1954 are examples of the
use of covert action by the
Dwight D. Eisenhower - $600
In a farewell message to the American
public, President Eisenhower warned
of the growth of the _____________.
This term refers to the influence of
defense contractors on Congress
Dwight D. Eisenhower - $800
Under Eisenhower, a general
acceptance of the New Deal
programs and a balanced
budget was known as
Dwight D. Eisenhower - $1000
Whose New Look policy do the following ideas refer
to?
• taking Communist nations to brink of war to
force them to back down
• threatening massive retaliation with nuclear
weapons to prevent Soviet aggression
• supporting the liberation of captive” nations
• reducing conventional forces of the U.S. Army
and Navy
Jazz Age - $200
To the people living in the
decade of the 1920s, which
supreme court case
symbolized immoral
decadence
Jazz Age - $400
This Tennessee court case
represented a dispute between
modernists and traditionalist in
the 1920s
Jazz Age - $600
The first talking
motion picture was
Jazz Age - $800
During the 1920s, the main goal
of this group was to promote
white supremacy
Jazz Age - $1000
The rise of organized
crime was a result of
this nationwide law
Roaring 20s - $200
In 1919, the Communist Party was
gaining strength in the U.S., and
Americans feared Communism. In
January, 1920, Palmer raids in 33
cities broke into meeting halls and
homes without warrants. 4,000
"Communists" were jailed, some were
deported.
Roaring 20s - $400
He was the founder of the
Universal Negro Improvement
Association (UNIA) and Backto-Africa movement
Roaring 20s - $600
Langston Hughes, "Song to A Negro
Wash Woman" and The Negro
Artist and the Racial Mountain“
represented this literary period
Roaring 20s - $800
They demonstrated that
individualism was still alive in a
modern American dominated by
corporations and team players.
Name one of these two heroes
Roaring 20s - $1000
White Anglo-Saxon Protestants
wanted to bar immigrants of
different racial, ethnic, and
religious backgrounds caused the
passage of this law