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Round 2

Final

Jeopardy

Scores

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$100

U.S. and British planes carried in

food and supplies when Soviet

forces blockaded access to this

city.


$100

What is Berlin?

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$200 A period of mistrust and bad

feeling between the United States

and Soviet Union lasting from the

end of WWII (1945) until collapse of

Soviet Union (1991); although the

two nations never directly met on

the battlefield, the threat of deadly

conflict lasted for decades.


$200

What was the Cold War?

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$300

This promised aid to people

fighting to maintain democracy.


$300

What is the Truman Doctrine?

Scores


$400

Hiss and these trials increased

Americans’ fears of spies and

communism within the U.S. Two

people were convicted of passing

on nuclear secrets to the Soviets.


$400

What are the Rosenberg Trials?

Scores


$500

During Truman’s presidency,

congress blocked many of these

reforms, which were built on

Roosevelt’s New Deal .


$500

What is the Fair Deal?

Scores


$100

The launch of Sputnik began this

between the U.S. and the Soviet

Union.


$100

What is the space race?

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$200

In contrast to Truman,

Eisenhower favored this policy

where the United States would go

to the brink of war to combat

communism.


$200

What is brinkmanship?

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$300

UN forces moved into stop the

North Korean forces when they

crossed the border into this

region.


$300

What is the 38th parallel of South

Korea?

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$400

In 1949, Communists defeated

the Nationalists in a civil war of

this country.


$400

What is China?

Scores


$500

This term refers to reckless

charges against innocent

civilians.


$500

What is McCarthyism?

Scores


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Workers wanted higher wages to help deal with rising prices.


$100

Why did labor unions go on strike

in 1946?

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This resulted as white Americans

headed for the suburbs, and

shops and businesses moved

with them. Fewer people

remained in the city to pay taxes

for services (garbage collection,

firefighting, road repair, etc.).


$200

What caused urban decay?

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Many Americans wanted to buy

the consumer goods they had

been putting off buying during

the war. This caused a boost in

the American___________.


$300

What is the economy?

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$400

During the 1950s many

Americans moved away from

these places and into the

suburbs.


$400

What are urban areas of cities?

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$500

A group of poets and writers who

resisted the conformity of 1950’s

American society.


$500

Who are beatniks?

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$100

A surge of Americans moved from

the north and east to states in this

area.


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What is the Sunbelt?

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A policy to stop the spread of

communism through military and

nonmilitary ways.


$200

What is containment?

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$300

To agree with the beliefs and

ideas of the majority.


$300

What is to conform?

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$400

This group of people returned to

more traditional jobs after

WWII.


$400

Who are women?

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$500

Post-WWII prosperity, the baby boom, and government loans for veterans led to the demand for this. ..


$500

As a result, many people bought homes and moved to the suburbs.

Scores


This country remained split at

the 38th parallel as s result of

this war.

$100


$100

What is the Korean War?

Scores


$200

This was created to prevent the

spread of communism by giving

$13 billion to revive the war-torn

economies of Europe.


$200

What is the Marshall Plan?

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It was built 1961to prevent East

Germans from fleeing to West

Germany.

It was torn down when

Communism began to fall in

1989.


$300

Why was the Berlin Wall built?

Why was it torn down?

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$400

Alarm over Communist control of

Eastern Europe led to the formation

of this Organization.


$400

What is the NATO?

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$500

The counter act of NATO formed

by the Soviet Union and Eastern

European nations.


$500

What is the Warsaw Pact?

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The House of Un-American

Activities Committee and this

man both launched hunts against

suspected Communists.


$100

Who is McCarthy?

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$200

Truman refused MacArthur’s

request to bomb China during the

Korean War because he feared

doing so might draw this country

into the war.


$200

What is the Soviet Union?

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$300

The Berlin airlift was launched

when the Soviets did this to the

city.


$300

What is blockade?

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$400

During Eisenhower’s presidency,

this incident ruined efforts to

ease Cold War tensions.


$400

What is the U-2 incident?

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$500

These are two ways the U.S. and

Soviet Union competed during

the Cold War.


$500

What are arms race and space

race?

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$500

In all three incidents the U.S. became

involved in foreign countries

because they thought they might be

in favor of Communism or because

they had ties to the Soviet Union in

some way.

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$500

How is U.S. involvement in Iran,

Guatemala, and Egypt (Suez

Canal incident) similar?

Scores


$500

He participated in the first televised

presidential debate against Vice

President Richard Nixon.

Compared to his opponent he

appeared energetic and confident

on TV, looking directly into the

camera.

Scores


$500

How did television help Senator

John F. Kennedy win the

Presidency?

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