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Question Answer World War II-100 These two alliances were on opposite sides of the Second World War. What are the Allied and Axis Powers?

Question Answer World War II The systemic murder of twelve million people in Germany during World War II. What was the Holocaust?

Question Answer World War II FDR ordered Japanese Americans to leave their homes and businesses and go to one of these during World War II. What were internment camps?

Question Answer World War II-400 The names of the two Japanese cities that were destroyed by atomic bombs at the end World War II. What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?

Question Answer World War II- 500 At these trials, Nazis were tried for war crimes and as a result, twelve were executed. What were the Nuremberg Trials?

Question Answer The United States policy to stop the spread of Communism. What is containment? The Cold War - 100

Question Answer The Cold War The United States response to the Soviet Blockade of around West Berlin. What was the Berlin Airlift?

Question Answer The Cold War Puppet governments of the Soviet Union to spread Communism. What is a satellite nation?

Question Answer The Cold War These two countries were given over $400 million in aid by the United States to prevent the spread of Communism. Who are Greece and Turkey?

Question Answer The Cold War The meeting of the Big Three (FDR, Stalin and Churchill) to decide what would happen after World War II. What was the Yalta Conference?

Question Answer Cold War Events Senator Joseph McCarthy started this hysteria that swept the United States – people were scared of Communism spreading to our shores. What was the Red Scare?

Question Answer Cold War Events Crisis in 1962 when the US ordered a blockade of Cuba after discovering that the Soviet Union had missile bases there. What was the Cuban Missile Crisis?

Question Answer Cold War Events American President who escalated the United States’ involvement in the Vietnam War. Who was Lyndon B. Johnson?

Question Answer Cold War Events The two sides of the antiwar movement in the United States. Who were the Doves and the Hawks?

Question Answer Cold War Events Name of the event when US trained Cuban exiles invaded Cuba, with the expected help of US air support – JFK cancelled the air support at the last minute and the exiles were defeated. What was the Bay of Pigs Invasion?

Question Answer The Civil Rights Movement Name of the woman who refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus, igniting a boycott of the city’s buses. Who was Rosa Parks?

Question Answer The Civil Rights Movement Another name for peaceful protest What is civil disobedience?

Question Answer The Civil Rights Movement Name of the court case declaring that segregation in public places is unconstitutional. What is Brown vs. the Board of Education?

Question Answer The Civil Rights Movement Act that prohibited practices that prevented African Americans from voting, such as poll taxes and literacy tests. What is the Voting Rights Act?

Question Answer The Civil Rights Movement The National Guard was sent to Central High School in this town because the Governor tried to prevent African American students from attending school? What is Little Rock, Arkansas?

Question Answer Misc -100 The name of the scandal that forced President Richard Nixon to resign, instead of being impeached. What is Watergate?

Question Answer Misc Conservative President who cut taxes, deregulated businesses and was unable to balance the federal budget. Who was President Ronald Reagan?

Question Answer Misc The name of President Johnson’s plan which created social reforms, such as Medicare, Medicaid and low income housing. What is the Great Society?

Question Answer Misc War in which the United States participated to protect its oil interests in Kuwait? What is the Persian Gulf War?

Question Answer Misc The name of the treaty between the United States, Mexico and Canada reducing trade tariffs. What is NAFTA?

Question Answer Final Jeopardy This alliance was created by Communist countries during the Cold War in response to NATO. What is the Warsaw Pact?