2nd Semester Final Exam
JEOPARDY REVIEW
ROUND 1
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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
Nixon & Beyond - 100
A. Homeless people
Nixon & Beyond - 200
The stock market crash was a contributing factor to
A. Rapid recovery
B. Prosperity in Europe
C. The Great Depression
C. The Great Depression
Nixon & Beyond - 200
Nixon & Beyond - 300
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
Nixon & Beyond - 300
B. WW I veterans demanding financial
aid from the federal government
Nixon & Beyond - 400
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
Nixon & Beyond - 400
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
Cold War & Post-WWII - 100
A. The use of atomic bombs against
Communist China
Cold War & Post-WWII - 200
Korea was divided along this parallel (it became the cease-fire line in 1953)
A. 38th
B. 17th
C. 49th
Cold War & Post-WWII - 200
A. 38th
Cold War & Post-WWII - 300
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
Cold War & Post-WWII - 300
C. A style that they could call their own
Cold War & Post-WWII - 400
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
Cold War & Post-WWII - 400
B. American Dream
2nd Semester Final Exam
JEOPARDY REVIEW
ROUND 2
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Kennedy& Johnson
Years
Civil Rights& other
movements
Vietnam War&
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
Kennedy/Johnson Years - 600
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
Kennedy/Johnson Years - 600
A. Bay of Pigs Invasion
Kennedy/Johnson Years – 800
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
Kennedy/Johnson Years – 800
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
Civil Rights & othermovements - 200
A. Rosa Parks
Civil Rights & othermovements - 400
Martin Luther King, Jr. is known for urging African
Americans to seek equality throughA. Use of weaponsB. Violent overthrow of the governmentC. Nonviolent demonstrations
Civil Rights & othermovements - 400
C. Nonviolent demonstrations
Civil Rights & othermovements - 600
The Little Rock crisis arose when the federal government tried to enforce a court-ordered
A. Termination policyB. Bus desegregationC. School desegregation
Civil Rights & othermovements - 600
C. School desegregation
Civil Rights & othermovements - 800
Freedom Summer and the Selma March both called attention to African Americans’ lack of
A. FoodB. Voting rightsC. Employment
Civil Rights & othermovements - 800
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
Nixon & Beyond - 200
What was the name of the scandal that eventually caused President Nixon to resign?
A. Watergate
B. The Vietnam War
C. His Personal Finances
Nixon & Beyond - 200
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
Nixon & Beyond - 400
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
Nixon & Beyond - 600
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
Nixon & Beyond - 800
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