Title: Jeopardy!
1Jeopardy!
2Great Depression/New Deal
3World War II
4Cold War
5Vietnam War
6 Civil Rights
7Grab Bag
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9This was the name of the homeless encampments
during the Great Depression .
What are Hoovervilles?
10Name of Midwestern farmers who moved to CA.
Who are Oakies?
11These are 3 causes of the Great Depression.
What are speculation, buying on margin, monetary
policy, distribution of wealth, agricultural
overproduction, low demand for industrial
productions, bank closures, high tariffs?
12This caused the Great Dust Bowl.
What is a drought?
13This was the purpose of the FDIC and SEC.
What is bank insurance policy and regulate stock
market fraud?
14This event brought the US into the War.
What is the attack on Pearl Harbor?
15This pre-war policy of giving into Hitler to keep
the peace.
What is appeasement?
16Two cities that the US dropped nuclear bombs on
during WWII.
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
17The last German offensive.
What is the Battle of Bulge?
18Name of the secret US plan to develop the bomb.
What is the Manhattan Project?
19Current Communist leader in Cuba.
Who is Raul Castro?
20The War ended in a stalemate.
What is the Korean War?
21In this plan, the US gave money to Greece and
Turkey to fight against communism.
What is the Truman Doctrine?
22This US President attempted to ease tensions
during the Cold War.
Who is Dwight Eisenhower?
23Secret US invasion of Cuba, failed, embarrassed
the Kennedy administration.
What is the Bay of Pigs?
24US supported leader in South Vietnam.
Who is Ngo Dinh Diem?
25Approximate of US soldiers killed in the War.
What is 58,000?
26This event gave Pres. Johnson the opportunity to
escalate the War falsely claiming 2 gunboats
were attacked.
What is the Gulf of Tonkin incident?
27Last French defeat in Vietnam in 1954.
What is the Battle of Diem Bien Phu?
28These are 3 ways to avoid the draft during the
Vietnam War.
What is medical exemption, enrolled in college,
being an only son, conscientious objector, etc?
29Supreme Court case that desegregated schools.
What Brown v. Board of Education?
30The Amendment that gave African-American males
the right to vote.
What is the 15th Amendment?
31This event prompted Pres. Johnson to sign the
Voting Rights Act of 1965.
What is March on Selma, AL?
32Daily Double!!
33This group wanted to pass the ERA.
What is the Womens Movement?
34Leader of the United Farm Workers Union.
Who is Cesar Chavez?
35His trickle down theory did not stop the Great
Depression.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
36These countries made up the Axis Powers during
WWII.
What are Germany, Italy, and Japan?
37The year the USSR detonated their first atomic
bomb.
What is 1949?
38Three ways that Blacks were prevented from voting.
What are poll taxes, literacy test and
fear/intimitation?
39This US President appointed the first Native
American in the Government.
Who is Jimmy Carter?
40Final Jeopardy!!
41- Put these events in the correct chronological
order - Korean War
- Stock Market Crash
- March on Washington
- Operation Rolling Thunder
- Invasion of Poland
- Cuban Missile Crisis
- Dust Bowl
- Brown v. Board of Education
42- What is
- Stock Market Crash (1929)
- Dust Bowl (1931-41)
- Invasion of Poland (1939)
- Korean War (1950-53)
- Brown v. Board of Education (1954)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- March on Washington (1963)
- Operation Rolling Thunder (1965-68)