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The Cold War

The Boom Years

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CATEGORY 1100 QUESTION

This granted veterans loans for school, housing, and business

CATEGORY 1100 ANSWER

What is the GI Bill?


This system provided soldiers through the implementation of the draft


What is the Selective Service System?


V-E Day marked the end of the War in Europe and Allied Victory after this group

surrendered.


What is The Third Reich (Germany)?


This is the group that distributed raw materials to key industries during the war


What is the War Production Board?


Radar, Sonar, and Vaccines were all created by this group


What is the Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD)?


South Korea appeared to be winning the Korean War until this country intervened


What is China?


The practice of making accusations without evidence is named after this Senator


Who is Joseph McCarthy?


Truman lacked this when he first took over as President of the United States


What is experience?


This stated that the United States would aid the Middle East against Communism


What was the Eisenhower Doctrine?


This was the plan to rebuild Europe after World War II


What was the Marshall Plan?


The Checkers Speech was given by this man


Who was Richard Nixon?


This person discovered a vaccine for Polio


Who was Dr. Jonas Salk?


This is the term for designing products that will become outdated


What is planned obsolescence?


This person ordered the Integration of the Armed Forces


Who was Harry S. Truman?


This was Truman’s response to a Labor Strike in 1946


He threatened to draft the workers into the military


This is the location where Kennedy was assassinated


What is Dallas?


This is the name for the failed invasion of Cuba


What is the Bay of Pigs?


Kennedy Administration policy to prepare a variety of military responses to crises


What is flexible response?


Lyndon B. Johnson declared a “war” on this


What is poverty?


The Cuban Missile Crisis ended in part because the U.S. agreed to remove

weapons from this country


What is Turkey?


He is considered the “King of Rock n Roll”


Who is Elvis?


This was a non-conformist movement of the 1950s


What is the Beat Movement?


This group was created by JFK to aid Third World Countries


What is the Peace Corps?


The 1960 presidential election is important because it was the first to be on this new

technology


What is Television?


The economic system used by the United States


What is capitalism?

FINAL JEOPARDY QUESTION

His plan was known as “The Great Society”

FINAL JEOPARDY ANSWER

Who was Lyndon B. Johnson?

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The Cold War

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DOUBLE JEOPARDYCATEGORY 1 200 QUESTION

He led the Allied Forces in Europe during World War II

DOUBLE JEOPARDYCATEGORY 1 200 ANSWER

Who was General Dwight D. Eisenhower?


This was the name for the Allied Invasion of France


What is D-Day?


This is the location in France that the Allied Forces invaded


What is Normandy?


This was the #2 World Superpower after World War II


What is the Soviet Union?


This is the term for the research and development for the first Atomic Bomb


What is the Manhattan Project?


This was built in Germany after World War II


What was the Berlin Wall?


This group felt that it was against their constitutional rights to testify in front of

HUAC


Who were the Hollywood Ten?


President Truman built this in response to the Soviet Union developing an Atomic

Bomb


What is the Hydrogen Bomb?


This is the name of the first satellite in space


What is Sputnik?


He was accused of being a communist spy


Who was Alger Hiss?


These towns, named after their inventor, had uniform homes and were criticized for

their encouraging of conformity


What are Levittowns?


McDonald’s is an example of this


What is a Franchise?


The term for a large corporation that owns smaller corporations in different businesses


What is a Conglomerate?


Eisenhower signed this into law in 1956 authorizing the building of a nationwide

road system


What was the Interstate Highway Act?


This person wrote a widely popular book on infant and child care


Who was Dr. Benjamin Spock?


He assassinated JFK


Who was Lee Harvey Oswald?


He killed JFK’s assassin


Who was Jack Ruby?


This group investigated the JFK assassination


Who were the Warren Commission?


This was the name given to JFK’s presidency


What was Camelot?


A court case in Arizona stated that the accused must be read these when charged

with a crime


What are the Miranda Rights?


He integrated baseball


Who was Jackie Robinson?


Women felt limited by this role glorified in the 1950s


What is Domestic Homemaker?


He was the first person in space


Who was Yuri Gagarin?


This was the name of Truman’s economic program


What was the Fair Deal?


This policy marked the end of support for Native American Tribes


What was Termination Policy?

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