2 nd semester final exam jeopardy review round 1

2nd Semester Final Exam

JEOPARDY REVIEW

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WWI The 20sCrash,

Depression and New Deal

WWIICold War

& Post-WWII

WWI - 100Whose assassination sparked World War I?

A. Woodrow Wilson

B. Adolf Hitler

C. Franz Ferdinand

WWI - 100

C. Franz Ferdinand

WWI - 200What term means “extreme pride in one’s country?”

A. Nationalism

B. Militarism

C. Alliance

WWI – 200

A. Nationalism

WWI - 300Why did a majority of Americans oppose the Versailles Treaty that ended World War I?

A. Most Americans did not want to get involved in the League of Nations

B. Most Americans wanted Hitler to be executed

C. Most Americans wanted Germany to pay off its war debt

WWI - 300

A. Most Americans did not want to get

involved in the League of Nations

WWI – Daily Double

The battlefields in France were known as the

A. Western Front

B. Northern Front

C. Front Door

WWI – Daily Double

A. Western Front

The 20s- 100What was the name given to the intellectual and

cultural revival that took place within the black community during the 1920s?

A. Planned Obsolescence

B. Age of Ballyhoo

C. Harlem Renaissance

The 20s- 100

C. Harlem Renaissance

The 20s– Daily Double

Illegal bars that sold alcohol during Prohibition were called

A. Speakeasies

B. Bootleggers

C. Moonshiners

The 20s– Daily Double

A. Speakeasies

The 20s – 300

In the 1920s, the automobile

A. Was just a fad

B. Had little effect on American life

C. Profoundly changed American life

The 20s - 300

C. Profoundly changed American life

The 20s - 400Why was Charles Lindbergh considered one of the greatest

heroes of the 20th Century?

A. He created the assembly line which allowed for the Model T to be manufactured in only 90 minutes.

B. Lindbergh endlessly worked at trying to convict Al Capone for tax evasion.

C. He was the first to fly nonstop across the Atlantic Ocean.

The 20s - 400

C. He was the first to fly nonstop across the Atlantic

Ocean.

Nixon & Beyond - 100

During the Great Depression, “Hoovervilles” became homes for…

A. Homeless people

B. Displaced Native Americans

C. Government officials


A. Homeless people


The stock market crash was a contributing factor to

A. Rapid recovery

B. Prosperity in Europe

C. The Great Depression

C. The Great Depression



The 1932 demonstration known as the "Bonus March" involved

A. Farmers disgruntled about low prices for meat, grain, and dairy products

B. WW I veterans demanding financial aid from the federal government

C. Migrant farm workers seeking employment in California


B. WW I veterans demanding financial

aid from the federal government


The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), both started under Roosevelt’s administration, are federal

A. Public arts organizations

B. Financial organizations

C. Public works programs


B. Financial organizations

WWII- 100Which was part of American policy during the early years of

World War II?

A. Denouncing Britain and France for declaring war on Germany

B. Following a foreign policy of appeasement

C. Remaining neutral while making war supplies available to Britain

WWII- 100

C. Remaining neutral while making war

supplies available to Britain

WWII- 200In what part of the world were the battles of the Coral Sea, Midway and Guadalcanal fought?

A. The Atlantic

B. The Pacific

C. The Italian peninsula

WWII- 200

B. The Pacific

WWII- Daily Double

The desperate German counterattack in December 1944, at the German-Belgium border which almost

broke the Allied lines was the battle of

A. The Bulge

B. Sitzkrieg

C. Dunkirk

WWII - Daily Double

A. The Bulge

WWII - 400

Which of the following was the MAJOR reason President Truman used to justify his decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima in August 1945?

A. He felt it would eliminate the need for an invasion of Japan thus saving American lives.

B. He wanted to send a strong warning message to the Chinese to watch their step in the Pacific after Japan was defeated.

C. He personally wanted revenge for the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

WWII - 400A. He felt it would eliminate the

need for an invasion of Japan thus saving American lives.

Cold War & Post-WWII - 100

President Truman and General MacArthur disagreed on

A. The use of atomic bombs against Communist China

B. The use of the Communist Chinese Army in the war

C. Bombing the supply lines in South Korea


A. The use of atomic bombs against

Communist China


Korea was divided along this parallel (it became the cease-fire line in 1953)

A. 38th

B. 17th

C. 49th


A. 38th


Rock and Roll gave the young people of the 1950’s

A. A way to conform with their parents’ expectations

B. The values they needed to live through the depression and war

C. A style that they could call their own


C. A style that they could call their own


The decade after World War II is considered one of the most prosperous in American History. Most middle class Americans had a job, a house and a family.

Many believe that people were fulfilling the …A. New WealthB. American DreamC. Golden Age of Television


B. American Dream

2nd Semester Final Exam

JEOPARDY REVIEW

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AmericanSociety

Nixon & beyond

GrabBag

Kennedy/Johnson Years– Daily Double

President Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society represented

A. Extensive tax cuts and defense spending cuts.

B. Long-awaited reforms in health care, federal aid to education, and promotion of civil rights.

C. A protection of American businesses.

Kennedy/Johnson Years– Daily Double

B. Long-awaited reforms in health care, federal aid to

education, and promotion of civil rights.

Kennedy/Johnson Years - 400

In 1962, which of the following brought the United States and the Soviet Union to the brink of nuclear war? The..

A. Cuban Missile Crisis

B. Panamanian riot

C. The Bay of Pigs invasion

Kennedy/Johnson Years – 400

A. Cuban Missile Crisis


In 1961, the incident known as the _______ became Kennedy’s most obvious foreign policy disaster.

A. Bay of Pigs Invasion

B. Cuban Missile Crisis

C. Vietnam War


A. Bay of Pigs Invasion


The Soviet leader with whom both Dwight Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy had to deal was …

A. Nikita Khrushchev

B. Leonid Brezhnev

C. Gamel Nasser


A. Nikita Khrushchev

Civil Rights & othermovements - 200

Refusing to give up a bus seat to a white person resulted in the arrest of________in Montgomery, Alabama. A. Rosa Parks

B. Diane Nash

C. James Meredith


A. Rosa Parks


Martin Luther King, Jr. is known for urging African

Americans to seek equality throughA. Use of weaponsB. Violent overthrow of the governmentC. Nonviolent demonstrations


C. Nonviolent demonstrations


The Little Rock crisis arose when the federal government tried to enforce a court-ordered

A. Termination policyB. Bus desegregationC. School desegregation


C. School desegregation


Freedom Summer and the Selma March both called attention to African Americans’ lack of

A. FoodB. Voting rightsC. Employment


B. Voting rights

Vietnam - 200 Which BEST describes the Viet Cong?

A. The American military

B. Communist guerrillas in South Vietnam.

C. French soldiers that remained in Vietnam.

Vietnam - 200

B. Communist guerrillas in South

Vietnam.

Vietnam – DAILY DOUBLEThe surprise attacks on major cities, towns, and American military bases in Southern Vietnam in January 1968 was known as the …

A. Battle of Pieiku

B. Battle of Saigon

C. Tet Offensive

Vietnam – DAILY DOUBLE

C. Tet Offensive

Vietnam - 600President Nixon broke his campaign promise by widening the Vietnam War when he authorized the

invasion of the country of_____in 1970.

A. China

B. Cambodia

C. North Korea

Vietnam - 600

B. Cambodia

Vietnam - 800What type of reception did American soldiers receive upon returning home from Vietnam?

A. Parades and heroes welcome

B. Presidential recognition for their success

C. Unappreciative welcome

Vietnam - 800

C. Unappreciative welcome


What was the name of the scandal that eventually caused President Nixon to resign?

A. Watergate

B. The Vietnam War

C. His Personal Finances


A. Watergate

Nixon & Beyond - 400Due to the intense fear and hatred of communism in America during Ronald Reagan’s presidency,

federal spending increased in which area?

A. Job training and school loans

B. Urban mass transit in major cities

C. National defense and the military


C. National defense and the military

Nixon & Beyond - 600During President Richard Nixon’s tenure, Apollo 11 astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first man to

A. Orbit the earth

B. Fly a space shuttle

C. Walk on the moon


C. Walk on the moon

Nixon & Beyond - 800One of President Jimmy Carter’s great foreign policy

successes was helping to negotiate a peace treaty

between …

A. Soviet Union and Afghanistan

B. Israel and Egypt

C. China and Japan


B. Israel and Egypt

Grab Bag – Daily Double

During World War II, which group was discriminated against the MOST within America?

A. Russian Americans

B. German Americans

C. Japanese Americans

C. Japanese Americans

Grab Bag– Daily Double

Grab Bag - 400The U.S. involvement in World War II was mainly financed through a tax hike and

A. Selling war bonds

B. Rationing

C. Selling munitions to the Allies

Grab Bag - 400

A. Selling war bonds

Grab Bag - 600

A lasting result of World War II, still functioning to this day, was the formation of the

A. United NationsB. League of Nations

C. Iron Bloc

Grab Bag - 600

B. League of Nations

Grab Bag - 800The ___ was founded in Oakland, CA in

1966 for self-defense and the goal of leading their own communities.

A. Civil Rights Movement

B. Woodstock

C. Black Panther Party

Grab Bag - 800

C. Black Panther Party

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