2. LET’S PLAY JEOPARDY!!

3. VocabularyPeopleEventsTrivia Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Jeopardy

4. $100 Question from Category 1 A ___________ is a conflict without any direct warfare between two nations.

5. $100 Answer from Category 1 a Cold War

6. $200 Question from Category 1 __________ is the system of government in which the government has total control of the economy.

7. $200 Answer from Category 1 Communism

8. $300 Question from Category 3 If you were placed on this, no one would want to hire you, since you had been labeled a “communist.”

9. $300 Answer from Category 1 Blacklist

10. $400 Question from Category 1 The _____________________ is the idea that if one nation comes under Communist control, then neighboring nations will also come under Communist control.

11. $400 Answer from Category 1 The Domino Theory

12. $500 Question from Category 1 _____________ is the movement of the 1950’s opposed to Communism. Innocent people were subjected to unfair investigations. This term is used to label someone who makes accusations without real evidence.

13. $500 Answer from Category 1 McCarthyism

14. $100 Question from Category 2 He was a Senator in the 1950’s; he wanted to find Communists in the U.S.; his work was part of the Red Scare and his ideas became unpopular.

15. $100 Answer from Category 2 Joseph McCarthy

16. $200 Question from Category 2 He was born in1894; he was the leader of the U.S.S.R.; he wanted to put nuclear missiles on Cuba and he served as a leader until 1964.

17. $200 Answer from Category 2 Nikita Khrushchev

18. $300 Question from Category 2 He was the president during the Cuban Missile Crisis.

19. $300 Answer from Category 2 President John F. Kennedy

20. $400 Question from Category 2 What was the Truman Doctrine?

21. $400 Answer from Category 2 President Harry S. Truman’s policy to contain the spread of communism.

22. $500 Question from Category 2 Who is a ruler with absolute power that rules their country with the support of a strong military?

23. $500 Answer from Category 2 A dictator

24. $100 Question from Category 3 Why were the United States and the U.S.S.R. (Soviet Union) on opposite sides of the Cold War?

25. $100 Answer from Category 3 they believed in different systems of government and economy

26. $200 Question from Category 3 The United States, the countries of Europe, and many other countries around the world wanted to make sure that communism did not spread. What organization was formed to stop the spread of communism?

27. $200 Answer from Category 3 NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)

28. $300 Question from Category 3 In 1946, Winston Churchill declared that an “Iron Curtain” has descended across Europe. What was Churchill referring to?

29. $300 Answer from Category 3 The separation of the communist countries in Eastern Europe and the democratic nations in the West

30. $400 Question from Category 3 Why was the Berlin Airlift necessary and how successful was it?

31. $400 Answer from Category 3 The Berlin Airlift was necessary because the Soviets had set up a blockade to stop all food and supplies from getting into West Berlin in an effort to make them communism.

32. $500 Question from Category 3 In the 1950’s, Korea fought a civil war over the spread of communism. Communists from the north tried to take over the south. What role did the U.S. play in this war?

33. $500 Answer from Category 3 the U.S. and its allies joined the fight to keep communism from spreading.

34. $100 Question from Category 4 Why was the Berlin Wall built?

35. $100 Answer from Category 4 To keep East Germans from entering West Germany.

36. $200 Question from Category 4 The ______________ between the U.S. and U.S.S.R was the rush to build thousands of atomic bombs.

37. $200 Answer from Category 4 The “arms race.”

38. $300 Question from Category 4 What was the result of the Korean War?

39. $300 Answer from Category 4 North Korea and South Korea remain two independent nations still today

40. $400 Question from Category 4 The Cold War between the US and USSR was a rivalry between what two forms of government?

41. $400 Answer from Category 4 Democracy and Communism

42. $500 Question from Category 4 What was the Cuban Missile Crises and what was the result?

43. $500 Answer from Category 4 The Cuban Missile Crises was when the USSR put missile bases in Cuba putting fear in Americans that a nuclear war would break out. JFK launched a blockade on all ships entering Cuba which resulted in the USSR taking their bases down.