2. Standard 20 Standard 19 Standard 18 Standard 17 Standard 16 100 200 300 400 500 Final Jeopardy

3. What was the key foreign policy program of the US until the downfall of the Soviet Union in 1991? Check Your Answer

4.  Containment Back to Game Board

5.  What was the economic recovery plan for Europe following WWII? Check Your Answer

6. Marshall Plan Back to Game Board

7.  Why did the change in governments in China and North Korea concern many Americans? Check Your Answer

8. Because the new governments were communists Back to Game Board

9.  During the Korean War, the UN forces led by the U.S. succeeded in their primary goal of _______________. Check Your Answer

10.  Preserving an anti communist government in South Korea Back to Game Board

11. Why was the Cuban Missile Crisis significant? Check Your Answer

12.  It was the closest the US and the Soviet Union came to nuclear war. Back to Game Board

13.  Who proposed a march on Washington to force President Roosevelt to end discrimination in the defense industry? Check Your Answer

14.  A. Philip Randolph Back to Game Board

15.  What event brought the US into World War II? Check Your Answer

16.  The bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941 Back to Game Board

17.  What group of Americans were removed from California, Oregon, and Washington under Executive Order 9066? Check Your Answer

18.  Japanese Americans Back to Game Board

19. In WWII, D-Day refers to the ________________. Check Your Answer

20.  Allied invasion of France Back to Game Board

21.  what was the purpose of the Manhattan Project? Check Your Answer

22.  to develop atomic weapons for military use Back to Game Board

23.  What was the effect of the Wagner Act? Check Your Answer

24.  protected the workers right to unionize  As a result, labor union membership grew Back to Game Board

25.  What was the purpose of the TVA? Check Your Answer

26.  to improve navigation on the Tennessee River  Provide flood control  Assist in agricultural and industrial development  Provide electricity and employment to one of the poorest regions in the country Back to Game Board

27.  What act was passed to provide for old age pensions, unemployment insurance and aid to the disabled? Check Your Answer

28.  Social Security Act Back to Game Board

29.  Who was a symbol of social progress and women’s activism during the 1930’s and 1940’s? Check Your Answer

30.  Eleanor Roosevelt Back to Game Board

31.  What did Roosevelt try to do in response to pieces of his first New Deal being declared unconstitutional? Check Your Answer

32.  Created a plan to add more justices to the Supreme Court… this would be called the “court packing plan” and was highly criticized Back to Game Board

33.  What were four causes of the Great Depression ? Check Your Answer

34.  Overproduction  Underconsumption  Stock market speculation  Disparity in the wealth of the nation Back to Game Board

35.  What was one cause of the Dust Bowl? Check Your Answer

36.  Overworking for farm lands in the Great Plains Back to Game Board

37.  What does the term Hooverville mean? Check Your Answer

38. The popular name of shanty towns common during the Great Depression. The name was used to mock President Hoover. Back to Game Board

39.  When did the stock market crash beginning the Great Depression? Check Your Answer

40.  October 1929 Back to Game Board

41.  What President did people criticize for not doing enough to help the people during the Great Depression? Check Your Answer

42.  President Herbert Hoover Back to Game Board

43.  What was the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920’s? Check Your Answer

44.  A period of musical, artistic, and literary productivity among African Americans in New York City Back to Game Board

45.  Who was one of the famous composers associated with Tin Pan Alley? Check Your Answer

46.  Irving Berlin Back to Game Board

47.  Who developed the first mass produced automobile? Check Your Answer

48.  Henry Ford Back to Game Board

49. What was one result of the Red Scare? Check Your Answer

50.  Restrictions on immigration Back to Game Board

51.  What led to the Red Scare? Check Your Answer

52.  The overthrow of the czar of Russia by communist revolutionaries Back to Game Board

54.  The Coercive Acts were known in the colonies as ______________________. Check Your Answer

55.  The Intolerable Acts