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21 st Century Jeopardy Russia Eastern Europe France and Britain US and Canada Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Final Jeopardy
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$100 Question from Russia In political history, the term “détente” refers to?
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$100 Answer from Russia Improved relations between the US and the Soviet Union in the 1970s
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$200 Question from Russia The Russian word perestroika, used to describe the reform movement led by Mikhail Gorbachev, means?
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$200 Answer from Russia Restructuring
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$300 Question from Russia The policy that the Soviet Union had a right to intervene if communism was threatened in another communist nation was known as the?
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$300 Answer from Russia Brezhnev Doctrine
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$400 Question from Russia One of the most serious problems facing Gorbachev’s reforms was what?
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$400 Answer from Russia The multiethnic republics
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$500 Question from Russia By the 1980s, the Soviet Union was ailing from a declining economy. What were the causes?
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$500 Answer from Russia Declining economy Rising infant mortality Poor working conditions
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$100 Question from Eastern Europe The Polish national trade union Solidarity was founded by?
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$100 Answer from Eastern Europe Lech Walesa
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$200 Question from Eastern Europe Attacks on foreigners became common in Germany during the 1990s, partly because?
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$200 Answer from Eastern Europe Increased unemployment made many German angry that foreigners were taking jobs
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$300 Question from Eastern Europe In 1989, the government of East Germany ordered the tearing down of one of the last symbols of the Cold War, the?
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$300 Answer from Eastern Europe Berlin Wall
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$400 Question from Eastern Europe In 1974, Tito had designated which region an autonomous or self- governing province within Yugoslavia?
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$400 Answer from Eastern Europe Kosovo
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$500 Question from Eastern Europe Reforms began in Romania after who was removed from power?
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$500 Answer from Eastern Europe Nicolae Ceausescu
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$100 Question from France and Great Britain One of the European Union’s first goals was the establishment of?
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$100 Answer from France and Great Britain A common European currency
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$200 Question from France and Great Britain Throughout the 1960s and 1970s, the British government struggled to address fighting in Northern Ireland between?
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$200 Answer from France and Great Britain Catholics and Protestants
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$300 Question from France and Great Britain Who was the Socialist president that nationalized major banks and industries in France in the 1980s?
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$300 Answer from France and Great Britain Francois Mitterand
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$400 Question from France and Great Britain Margaret Thatcher resigned after her plan to what was rejected?
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$400 Answer from France and Great Britain Replace local property taxes with a national flat-rate tax
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$500 Question from France and Great Britain What were the economic policies of the Thatcher government in the 1980s?
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$500 Answer from France and Great Britain Restrictions on union power Preserving local property taxes Controls on inflation
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$100 Question from US and Canada Who was the US president who was forced to resign to avoid impeachment for his involvement in the Watergate scandal?
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$100 Answer from US and Canada Nixon
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$200 Question from US and Canada US president Jimmy Carter faced serious international crisis when 52 Americans were held hostage in?
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$200 Answer from US and Canada Iran
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$300 Question from US and Canada The US was inclined to sign a nuclear weapons treaty in 1990 because it need to?
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$300 Answer from US and Canada Reduce military spending
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$400 Question from US and Canada Voters were choose not to secede from the Canadian union in 1995?
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$400 Answer from US and Canada Quebec
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$500 Question from US and Canada In the 1990s, some women and men rejected or attempted to redefine the concept of “feminism” to mean what?
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$500 Answer from End Balancing career, family, and leisure time
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Final Jeopardy In the 1960s, as television spread around the world, US television programs became what?
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Final Jeopardy Answer Popular in Europe and non- Western nations
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