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CATEGORY QUESTION This granted veterans loans for school, housing, and business
CATEGORY ANSWER What is the GI Bill?
CATEGORY QUESTION This system provided soldiers through the implementation of the draft
CATEGORY ANSWER What is the Selective Service System?
CATEGORY QUESTION V-E Day marked the end of the War in Europe and Allied Victory after this group surrendered.
CATEGORY ANSWER What is The Third Reich (Germany)?
CATEGORY QUESTION This is the group that distributed raw materials to key industries during the war
CATEGORY ANSWER What is the War Production Board?
CATEGORY QUESTION Radar, Sonar, and Vaccines were all created by this group
CATEGORY ANSWER What is the Office of Scientific Research and Development (OSRD)?
CATEGORY QUESTION South Korea appeared to be winning the Korean War until this country intervened
CATEGORY ANSWER What is China?
CATEGORY QUESTION The practice of making accusations without evidence is named after this Senator
CATEGORY ANSWER Who is Joseph McCarthy?
CATEGORY QUESTION Truman lacked this when he first took over as President of the United States
CATEGORY ANSWER What is experience?
CATEGORY QUESTION This stated that the United States would aid the Middle East against Communism
CATEGORY ANSWER What was the Eisenhower Doctrine?
CATEGORY QUESTION This was the plan to rebuild Europe after World War II
CATEGORY ANSWER What was the Marshall Plan?
CATEGORY QUESTION The Checkers Speech was given by this man
CATEGORY ANSWER Who was Richard Nixon?
CATEGORY QUESTION This person discovered a vaccine for Polio
CATEGORY ANSWER Who was Dr. Jonas Salk?
CATEGORY QUESTION This is the term for designing products that will become outdated
CATEGORY ANSWER What is planned obsolescence?
CATEGORY QUESTION This person ordered the Integration of the Armed Forces
CATEGORY ANSWER Who was Harry S. Truman?
CATEGORY QUESTION This was Truman’s response to a Labor Strike in 1946
CATEGORY ANSWER He threatened to draft the workers into the military
CATEGORY QUESTION This is the location where Kennedy was assassinated
CATEGORY ANSWER What is Dallas?
CATEGORY QUESTION This is the name for the failed invasion of Cuba
CATEGORY ANSWER What is the Bay of Pigs?
CATEGORY QUESTION Kennedy Administration policy to prepare a variety of military responses to crises
CATEGORY ANSWER What is flexible response?
CATEGORY QUESTION Lyndon B. Johnson declared a “war” on this
CATEGORY ANSWER What is poverty?
CATEGORY QUESTION The Cuban Missile Crisis ended in part because the U.S. agreed to remove weapons from this country
CATEGORY ANSWER What is Turkey?
CATEGORY QUESTION He is considered the “King of Rock n Roll”
CATEGORY ANSWER Who is Elvis?
CATEGORY QUESTION This was a non-conformist movement of the 1950s
CATEGORY ANSWER What is the Beat Movement?
CATEGORY QUESTION This group was created by JFK to aid Third World Countries
CATEGORY ANSWER What is the Peace Corps?
CATEGORY QUESTION The 1960 presidential election is important because it was the first to be on this new technology
CATEGORY ANSWER What is Television?
CATEGORY QUESTION The economic system used by the United States
CATEGORY ANSWER 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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DOUBLE JEOPARDY CATEGORY QUESTION He led the Allied Forces in Europe during World War II
DOUBLE JEOPARDY CATEGORY ANSWER Who was General Dwight D. Eisenhower?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY CATEGORY QUESTION This was the name for the Allied Invasion of France
DOUBLE JEOPARDY CATEGORY ANSWER What is D-Day?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY CATEGORY QUESTION This is the location in France that the Allied Forces invaded
DOUBLE JEOPARDY CATEGORY ANSWER What is Normandy?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY CATEGORY QUESTION This was the #2 World Superpower after World War II
DOUBLE JEOPARDY CATEGORY ANSWER What is the Soviet Union?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY CATEGORY QUESTION This is the term for the research and development for the first Atomic Bomb
DOUBLE JEOPARDY CATEGORY ANSWER What is the Manhattan Project?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY CATEGORY QUESTION This was built in Germany after World War II
DOUBLE JEOPARDY CATEGORY QUESTION What was the Berlin Wall?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY CATEGORY QUESTION This group felt that it was against their constitutional rights to testify in front of HUAC
DOUBLE JEOPARDY CATEGORY ANSWER Who were the Hollywood Ten?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY CATEGORY QUESTION President Truman built this in response to the Soviet Union developing an Atomic Bomb
DOUBLE JEOPARDY CATEGORY ANSWER What is the Hydrogen Bomb?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY CATEGORY QUESTION This is the name of the first satellite in space
DOUBLE JEOPARDY CATEGORY ANSWER What is Sputnik?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY CATEGORY QUESTION He was accused of being a communist spy
DOUBLE JEOPARDY CATEGORY ANSWER Who was Alger Hiss?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY CATEGORY QUESTION These towns, named after their inventor, had uniform homes and were criticized for their encouraging of conformity
DOUBLE JEOPARDY CATEGORY ANSWER What are Levittowns?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY CATEGORY QUESTION McDonald’s is an example of this
DOUBLE JEOPARDY CATEGORY ANSWER What is a Franchise?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY CATEGORY QUESTION The term for a large corporation that owns smaller corporations in different businesses
DOUBLE JEOPARDY CATEGORY ANSWER What is a Conglomerate?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY CATEGORY QUESTION Eisenhower signed this into law in 1956 authorizing the building of a nationwide road system
DOUBLE JEOPARDY CATEGORY ANSWER What was the Interstate Highway Act?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY CATEGORY QUESTION This person wrote a widely popular book on infant and child care
DOUBLE JEOPARDY CATEGORY ANSWER Who was Dr. Benjamin Spock?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY CATEGORY QUESTION He assassinated JFK
DOUBLE JEOPARDY CATEGORY ANSWER Who was Lee Harvey Oswald?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY CATEGORY QUESTION He killed JFK’s assassin
DOUBLE JEOPARDY CATEGORY ANSWER Who was Jack Ruby?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY CATEGORY QUESTION This group investigated the JFK assassination
DOUBLE JEOPARDY CATEGORY ANSWER Who were the Warren Commission?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY CATEGORY QUESTION This was the name given to JFK’s presidency
DOUBLE JEOPARDY CATEGORY ANSWER What was Camelot?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY CATEGORY QUESTION A court case in Arizona stated that the accused must be read these when charged with a crime
DOUBLE JEOPARDY CATEGORY ANSWER What are the Miranda Rights?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY CATEGORY QUESTION He integrated baseball
DOUBLE JEOPARDY CATEGORY ANSWER Who was Jackie Robinson?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY CATEGORY QUESTION Women felt limited by this role glorified in the 1950s
DOUBLE JEOPARDY CATEGORY ANSWER What is Domestic Homemaker?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY CATEGORY QUESTION He was the first person in space
DOUBLE JEOPARDY CATEGORY ANSWER Who was Yuri Gagarin?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY CATEGORY QUESTION This was the name of Truman’s economic program
DOUBLE JEOPARDY CATEGORY ANSWER What was the Fair Deal?
DOUBLE JEOPARDY CATEGORY QUESTION This policy marked the end of support for Native American Tribes
DOUBLE JEOPARDY CATEGORY ANSWER What was Termination Policy?