Jeopardy People Events Q $100 Q $100 Q $100 Q $200 Q $200 Q $200 Miscellaneous Q $100 Q $100 Q $100 Q $200 Q $200 Q $200 Q $300 Q $300 Q $300 Q $400 Q $400 Q $400 Q $500 Q $500 Q $500 Final Jeopardy

$100 Question from People This man became the prime minister of Britain during World War II and vowed never to surrender to Hitler and Germany.

$100 Answer from People Who is Winston Churchill?

$200 Question from People This man was the president of the United States at the beginning of World War II.

$200 Answer from People Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?

$300 Question from People This man seized control of the Japanese government in 1941 and persuaded Emperor Hirohito to attack American naval bases in the Pacific.

$300 Answer from People Who is General Hideki Tojo?

$400 Question from People This admiral led the naval fleet that surprised the Japanese and defeated them at the Battle of Midway, a turning point in the war again Japan.

$400 Answer from People Who is Chester Nimitz?

$500 Question from People This general led the Allied forces at the largest amphibious assault in world history on D Day, June 6, 1944.

$500 Answer from People Who is Dwight Eisenhower?

$100 Question from Events This was the German effort during World War II to murder Europe’s Jews, along with other groups deemed “undesirable” by the Nazis.

$100 Answer from Events What is the Holocaust?

$200 Question from Events Known as the “Night of Broken Glass,” this event occurred on November 9-10, 1938, when Nazis destroyed Jewish property.

$200 Answer from Events What is Kristallnacht?

$300 Question from Events This top-secret project of 1942 was authorized by FDR to create an atomic bomb ahead of the Germans. It was located at Los Alamos, New Mexico, and succeeded in July 1945.

$300 Answer from Events What is the Manhattan Project?

$400 Question from Events This World War II campaign in America was geared towards attacking racism at home and abroad. FDR authorized a committee to investigate and prevent racial discrimination in employment.

$400 Answer from Events What was the Double V campaign?

$500 Question from Events This legislation, passed in 1944, authorized the government to provide World War II veterans with funds for education, housing, and health care, as well as loans to start businesses and buy homes.

$500 Answer from Events What is the GI Bill of Rights?

$100 Question from Miscellaneous This was the notion of making accusations of siding with communist ideology and conspiracy. The term became synonymous with the anti-communist crusade.

$100 Answer from Miscellaneous What is McCarthyism?

$200 Question from Miscellaneous This was the name given to the German air force.

$200 Answer from Miscellaneous What is the Luftwaffe?

$300 Question from Miscellaneous Known as the German “war machine.”

$300 Answer from Miscellaneous What is the Wehmacht?

$400 Question from Miscellaneous Passed in 1935 and 1937 to avoid entanglement in foreign wars while protecting trade, it prohibited selling arms to nations at war and required nations to pay cash for nonmilitary goods and to transport them in their own ships.

$400 Answer from Miscellaneous What were the neutrality acts?

$500 Question from Miscellaneous This pilot flew the Enola Gay that dropped the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima.

$500 Answer from Miscellaneous Who is Colonel Paul Tibbets?

Final Jeopardy This man was the prime minister of Britain at the start of World War II.

Final Jeopardy Answer Who is Neville Chamberlain?

Reference Roark, J. L. , Johnson, M. P. , Cohen, P. C. , Stage, S Reference Roark, J. L., Johnson, M. P., Cohen, P. C., Stage, S., & Hartmann, S. M. (2013). The American promise: A concise history (5th ed.). Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martin’s.