Cold War

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Cold War 1950sJeopardy!
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Answer 1-100

• Who was the leader of the Soviet Union in the
  early part of the Cold War?
• Joseph Stalin

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Answer 1-200

• What city did the Soviets try to cut off from all
  supplies, that the U.S. decided to create an
  emergency airlift for?
• Berlin, Germany

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Answer 1-300

• British Prime Minister Winston Churchill gave
  this name to the line through Europe that divided
  the free West from Soviet controlled communist
  Eastern Europe
• Iron Curtain

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Answer 1-400

• What is the name of the military alliance between
  the U.S., Canada and Western Europe pledging a
  common defense against (Soviet) aggression?
• NATO
• (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)

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Answer 1-500

• What was the name of the military alliance
  between the Soviet Union and its satellite
  communist nations in Eastern Europe?
• Warsaw Pact

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• The first invasion of the Korean War was
  performed by who?
• North Korea
• (communists)

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Answer 2-200

• What international organization made the decision
  to take action to settle the problem on the
  Korean Peninsula?
• U.N.
• (United Nations)

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• Who was the U.S. Commander at the start of the
  conflict in Korea?
• General Douglas MacArthur

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Answer 2-400

• Why did President Truman fire his commander in
  Korea?
• MacArthur wanted to use atomic weapons against
  China and criticized Truman

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Answer 2-500

• Which side won the Korean War?
• Neither, it ended in stalemate with the border
  exactly were it had been before

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Answer 3-100

• What was the name given to the U.S. policy that
  we would try to keep communism from spreading
  from wherever it was already in the late 1940s?
• containment

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Answer 3-200

• Which president created a policy that stated that
  America would assist all free peoples under
  threat from Communism?
• Harry Truman
• (Truman Doctrine)

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Answer 3-300

• Name the American plan to provide economic aid
  () to help rebuild destroyed European nations
  after WWII.
• Marshall Plan

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Answer 3-400

• Name the U.S. Senator who guided a witch-hunt in
  the government and the nation for suspected
  communists (Red Scare).
• Joseph McCarthy

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Answer 3-500
Daily Double!!!

• What was the new American motto in the 1950s,
  chosen to separate America from the Communist
  Sovet Union that promoted atheism?
• In God We Trust

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• What do we call the competition between the
  United States and the Soviet Union to create more
  powerful weapons (and more of them)?
• the Arms Race

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Daily Double!!!

• What was the name of the satellite launched by
  the Soviets in 1957, that made many Americans
  afraid we were then more vulnerable to attack?
• Sputnik

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Answer 4-300

• What do we call the competition between the
  United States and the Soviet Union to create
  rockets, satellites and missions both in and
  beyond Earths orbit?
• the Space Race

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Answer 4-400

• How did American agriculture change in the 1950s
  that allowed it to feed the booming population?
• Better farm machinery and fertilizers

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Answer 4-500

• What was the main medical advancement in the
  1950s that led to more people surviving infancy
  and early childhood?
• vaccines
• (Jonas Salk)

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• What was the name given to the generation of
  Americans born between 1946 and 1964?
• Baby Boomers

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• What was the name of the American legislation
  that gave returning veterans from WWII and Korea
  access to for college tuition and home loans?
• G.I. Bill

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• What new invention started to become the main
  form of entertainment for Americans in the 1950s?
• television

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• This is the word used to describe where many
  Americans began moving when the wanted a house
  with a white picket fence and they moved out of
  American cities.
• suburbs

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• Name the group of people in America who began to
  create a counterculture movement in the 1950s.
  The were sort of like early version of Hippies,
  but less political and more poetic.
• Beatniks

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• Who is considered to be the central leader of the
  African-American Civil Rights Movement?
• Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

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• In 1957, a city in the South refused to integrate
  its schools, despite a Supreme court ruling
  requiring it. President Eisenhower sent in U.S.
  troops to keep the nine African-American students
  safe. What city?
• Little Rock, Arkansas

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• In what city was MLK jailed for his marching and
  civil disobedience?
• Birmingham, Alabama

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• In what American city did Americans march in 1963
  in favor of a federal Civil Rights Bill, making
  it the largest demonstration for human rights in
  U.S. history?
• Washington, D.C.

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• What American President helped pass legislation
  making racial discrimination illegal in the U.S.
  in public places, businesses, etc.?
• LBJ
• (Lyndon Baines Johnson)