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$100 $500 $400 $200 $300 $200 $300 $500 $400 Post WWII50s CultureKorea /CubaPeoplePot Luck CLICK HERE FOR FINAL JEOPARDY
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Democratic countries formed this organization to support each other economically.
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What is NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)? $100
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Following this concept meant keeping Soviet influence within existing borders.
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What is containment ? $200
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Under this policy, the US supported any nations threatened by communism using $ or any other means possible.
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What is the Truman Doctrine? $300
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The crisis in Berlin evolved when this occurred.
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What is when the countries controlling the zones in western Germany decided to unite them? $400
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A nation with the ability to influence economic and political events around the world is called this.
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What is a “superpower” ? $???
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In 1950 3,548,000 of these contributed to the youth culture.
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What is a “babyboomer” ? $100
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These homes were mass produced utilizing building strategies used in WWII.
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What are Levittown homes? $200
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The suburbs grew for these two reasons.
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What are the need for space and A-bomb fears of city life ? $300
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The growth of automobiles affected society in these three ways.
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What are drive-ins and diners as well as the Interstate Highway Act? $400
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For returning soldiers this provided Federal funds for education, businesses and new homes.
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$500 What is the GI Bill?
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The Korean War ended right where it began at this location.
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$100 What is the 38 th parallel?
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This is the art of pushing a dangerous situation to the limit of safety to get a more favorable outcome.
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$200 What is brinksmanship?
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This post Bay of Pigs plan included using the CIA to disrupt Cuba’s economy and assassinate Castro.
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$300 What is Operation Mongoose?
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This general questioned Truman’s plans in Korea and was fired as a result.
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$400 Who is Douglas MacArthur?
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This South Korean leader was an US ally during the Korean War.
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$??? Who is Syngman Rhee?
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This was the Soviet leader during the 1950s and Cuban Missile Crisis.
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$100 Who is Nikita Khrushchev?
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This man was found guilty of giving the USSR A-bomb secrets; he received 14 years.
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$200 Who is Klaus Fuchs?
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This person led a successful communist revolution in China in 1949.
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$300 Who is Mao Zedong?
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This man created a plan to rebuild Europe after WWII using $17 billion in aid.
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$400 Who is George Marshall?
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This U-2 pilot claimed to be a weather man when he crashed in the USSR.
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$500 Who was Gary Powers?
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The successful launch of this satellite put fear in the hearts of Americans.
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$100 What is Sputnik?
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This man started “witch hunts” in America, ruining the lives of many with false accusations.
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$200 Who is Joe McCarthy?
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The conference at Yalta contributed to the Cold War in this manner.
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$300 What is by allowing Stalin to keep all territory his troops had recovered during the war.
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The 1960 presidential election is historic for this reason.
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$400 What is the influence of the TV debates and voter fraud in Texas and Illinois?
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The A-bomb affected average American life in the 1950s this way.
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$500 What is bomb shelters, suburbs, and/or “duck and cover” ?
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Cuba
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These three results were outcomes of the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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What are: 1.a “hotline” is set up between the US and USSR. 2. Khrushchev loses power in USSR 3. Missiles out of Cuba-US takes away missiles in Turkey 4. Castro separates himself from US/USSR 4. the “ wet foot dry foot ” policy and the embargo of Cuba still exist today
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