Jeopardy

Question 1

What period of time did FDR pass 15 pieces of legislation?

Answer 1

100 days

Question 2

What government program put men ages 18 - 25 to work?

Answer 2

CCC

Question 3

What series of dams was built to control flooding and provide jobs?

Answer 3

TVA

Question 4

What did the National Labor Relations Act ensure for workers?

Answer 4

Collective Barg.

Question 5

What did Charles Coughlin and Huey Long have in common?

Answer 5

Critics of New Deal

Question 6

What was the first minimum wage?

Answer 6

$.25/hr.

Question 7

What act provided money and weapons to allies before 1941?

Answer 7

Lend-Lease Act

Question 8

What was the agreement between the US and Great Britain in summer 1941?

Answer 8

Atlantic Charter

Question 9

What did Executive Order 9066 authorize?

Answer 9

Japanese camps

Question 10

What economic policy did Norman Thomas criticize?

Answer 10

New Deal

Question 11

Which nation sent 300,000 troops to Manchuria in 1931?

Answer 11

Japan

Question 12

What date did Germany and the USSR invade Poland?

Answer 12

Sept. 1, 1939

Question 13

Who was the President of Vichy France?

Answer 13

Henri Petain

Question 14

Where did Nevil Chamberlain sign a peace treaty with Hitler?

Answer 14

Munich Conference

Question 15

In which nation’s civil war did the Lincoln Brigade fight?

Answer 15

Spain

Question 16

What plan gave money and materials to Europe to prevent communism?

Answer 16

Marshall Plan

Question 17

In what year did the USSR test the A-bomb and China go Communist?

Answer 17

1949

Question 18

What is the defensive alliance of the US and democracies against the USSR?

Answer 18

NATO

Question 19

What is the US support for free peoples against aggression called?

Answer 19

Truman Doctrine

Question 20

What are the two cities destroyed by A-bombs in Japan?

Answer 20

Hiroshima, Nagasaki

Question 21

What did FDR use to speak directly to the American people?

Answer 21

Fireside chats

Question 22

What did Eric Loomis say the auto industry was the first to experience?

Answer 22

Sit down strike

Question 23

Who did FDR ask for broad executive power?

Answer 23

Congress

Question 24

What is the air war over Great Britain by RAF fighter pilots called?

Answer 24

The Battle of Britain

Question 25

What is the name of the invasion of the Soviet Union by Germany?

Answer 25

Operation Barbarossa

Question 26

What Soviet satellite changed US education?

Answer 26

Sputnik

Question 27

What was the ideological struggle during the Cold War?

Answer 27

Communism vs. Capitalism

Question 28

Who led the movement to stay out of war?

Answer 28

Charles Lindburgh

Question 29

Name one of the three movies that helped Americans escape the Great Depression.

Answer 29

SW, GWW, WO

Question 30

What did James J. Braddock take advantage of?

Answer 30

FERA which provided direct relief to families

Question 31

What did President Eisenhower and the Dept. of Defense build in 1956?

Answer 31

Interstate Highway System

Question 32

What does Harrington discuss in 'The Other America'?

Answer 32

Poverty

Question 33

What was the map for bankers indicating risky mortgages called?

Answer 33

Red-lining

Question 34

Who participated in the Kitchen Debates?

Answer 34

VP Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev

Question 35

What was the post-WWII suburban housing development called?

Answer 35

Green Acres

Question 36

What Supreme Court case integrated public schools?

Answer 36

Brown v. Topeka

Question 37

What colorful organization had a 10-point plan to improve civil rights?

Answer 37

Black Panthers

Question 38

What act struck down Jim Crow and prohibited public discrimination?

Answer 38

Civil Rights Act of 64

Question 39

Which amendment did Jim Crow clearly violate?

Answer 39

14th Amendment

Question 40

What act made poll taxes and literacy tests illegal?

Answer 40

Voting Rights Act of 65

Question 41

What was the focus of the Second Wave Feminism?

Answer 41

Birth control, education and harassment

Question 42

What is the title of Betty Friedan’s book about suburban housewives?

Answer 42

The Feminine Mystique

Question 43

What federal law outlaws sex-based discrimination?

Answer 43

Title IX

Question 44

What is the oldest form of domination and power?

Answer 44

Male Supremacy

Question 45

Who was the first openly gay elected politician?

Answer 45

Harvey Milk

Question 46

What are small, mobile attacks and ambushes called in Vietnam?

Answer 46

Guerilla Warfare

Question 47

What incident allowed combat troops to go to Vietnam?

Answer 47

Gulf of Tonkin incident

Question 48

Who leaked the Pentagon papers?

Answer 48

Daniel Elsberg

Question 49

Who was the communist leader of North Vietnam?

Answer 49

Ho Chi Minh

Question 50

Who assassinated Ngo Dinh Diem?

Answer 50

His own generals

Question 51

Who was the most notable feminist that started the Eagle Forum?

Answer 51

Phillis Schlafley

Question 52

Who founded the Moral Majority?

Answer 52

Jerry Falwell

Question 53

Who said people on welfare surrender their freedom?

Answer 53

Ronald Reagan

Question 54

Which court decided Brown v. Topeka and Griswold v. Connecticut?

Answer 54

Warren Court

Question 55

Who was the only President never elected as President or Vice President?

Answer 55

Gerald R. Ford

Question 56

What was the name of the boy from Chicago who was murdered in MS in 1954?

Answer 56

Emmitt Till

Question 57

What is breaking the law to get attention for your cause called?

Answer 57

Civil Disobedience

Question 58

What was the supply line through Laos and Cambodia for VC?

Answer 58

Ho Chi Minh Trail

Question 59

What did the War Powers Act limit?

Answer 59

The President - Executive Branch

Question 60

What are missions where troops are dropped into hostile areas called?

Answer 60

Search and Destroy missions

Question 61

What is the defoliant herbicide used in Vietnam that contained dioxin?

Answer 61

Agent Orange