1. Tie Breaker… What humanitarian organization did Kennedy found?
10 extra points – who is the last remaining superpower?

2. Rules of Jeopardy Question Category Point value Answer
Everyone will work in pairs or groups of 3, with EVERYONE receiving a recording paper
Your recording paper should have your name at the top and a table that contains , the category of the question, the point value, the answer and the total point for the team. (see example) This table must be turned in at the end of class…
The team with the most points wins…. A fun filled summer
If anyone should shout out an answer then everyone in the class will not be eligible to receive the points for the question And your group will lose 50 points
How the points add up
Correct answers add the assigned point value to your total score, incorrect answer subtract that point value from your score…
Question Category
Point value
Answer
Total Group score

3. Powerpoint Jeopardy 10 20 30 40 50 Unit 4 WW1/20s Unit 5 GD/WW2 Unit 6
Cold War
Unit 7
Mod Amer
Mish Mash 10 20 30 40 50

4. What event(s) prompted US involved in WW1?
Category 1 – 10 points
Sinking of the The Lusitania (unrestricted submarine warfare),
Zimmerman Note
Preexisting relationship with Britain & France
Category

5. What defensive alliance did Wilson believe would help create a lasting peace?
League of Nations
Category 1 – 20 points
Category

6. What two organizations were created to help organize public support and material needs for the war?
-The CPI and WIB
Category 1 – 30 points

7. How were Presidents Harding and Coolidge similar?
- Category 1 – 40 points
Both pursued Laissez Faire Economic policies that aided the growth of business but included none to very little regulation

8. During the 1920s __________, or the driving up of stock with capital and information in order to sell high for a large profit, became common place.
Category 1 – 50 points
Speculation

9. Environmental disaster that impacted millions in the Midwest?
- Dust Bowl
Category 2 – 10 points

10. Hoover proposed _________________ as a way to fix the US economy during the Great Depression.
Category 2 – 20 points
Trickle Down Economics

11. Group of WW1 Veterans who set up a Hooverville in DC to protest not receiving their pensions.
Bonus Army
Category 2 – 30 points

12. Piece of legislation that was passed during Hoover’s administration
Piece of legislation that was passed during Hoover’s administration. Intended to protect American products and improve the economy.
Hawley – Smoot Tariff
Category 2 – 40 points

13. Economist that stated that the government should directly intervene in the economy with public works projects in order to end the Great Depression. FDR agreed.
John Maynard Keynes
Category 2 – 50 points

14. Policy that gave aid to countries willing to resist communism
Truman Doctrine
Category 3 – 10 points

15. Match the correct leader to the civil rights organization that that he is associated with:
A. SNCC 1. Huey Newton
B. Black Panthers 2. MLK
C. Nation of Islam 3. Stokely Carmichael
D. SCLC 4. Malcom X
A – 3/ B – 1/ C – 4/ D – 2
Category 3 – 20 points

16. In an attempt to counter Soviet
Expansion the US created this organization
- NATO
Category 3 – 30 points

17. What did the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution do?
Gave the President the power to send troops overseas without congress declaring war
Category 3 – 40 points

18. Who was the commander of US troops in Vietnam?
William Westmoreland
Category 3 – 50 points

19. Who was Cesar Chavez?
Latino American civil rights leader who founded the United Farm Workers union
Category 4 – 10 points

20. What was the goal of Reagan’s economic policies?
Decrease taxes and regulations on businesses in order to increase profit
Greed is good
Category 4 – 20 points

21. This set of documents provided the truth behind American involvement in Vietnam.
10 bonus points if you can name the other scandal the Nixon administration was involved in
-Pentagon Papers and Watergate
Category 4 – 30 points

22. This organization continues to fight for the rights of all women?
- NOW (National Organization for Women)
Category 4 – 40 points

23. This organization was created by the Nixon administration, even though it was a progressive organization, and sought to increase regulations for the environment.
-EPA (Environmental Protection Agency)
Category 4 – 50 points

24. Define Trickle Down Economics
- The idea that investing in big business and wealthy people would reach the people at the bottom of the economic ladder.
Category 5 – 10 points

25. Who were the plumbers?
- People hired by Nixon to stop the leaks of information
Category 5 – 20 points

26. The rebel leader who demanded independence for Vietnam
- Ho Chi Minh
Category 5 – 30 points

27. After WW1 this president promised a
“return to normalcy’
- Warren G. Harding
Category 5 – 40 points

28. This organization wanted to create grassroots effort to that involved people from every socioeconomic spectrum.
SNCC
Category 5 – 50 points