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Title: Double Jeopardy


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Double Jeopardy
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CREDITS
Double Jeopardy
WWI
WWII
The 20s
The Cold War
Principles of the Constitution
The American Revolution
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Major allies of the United States in World War I
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Who were the French, the British, and the
Russians?
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The British ocean liner torpedoed and sunk by a
German sub in 1915 1198 people, including 128
Americans were killed
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What was the Lusitania?
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The two major reasons the United States
eventually declared war on Germany and the
other Central powers
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What was Germanys continued use of
unrestricted submarine warfare, and the Zimmerman
note instructing Mexico what they would receive
if they would attack the U.S.?
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Open diplomacy between countries, freedom of
the seas, removal of tariffs, reduction of
armaments, an end to the policies of imperialism,
and a creation of a general association of
nations to keep peace
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What was Wilsons plan for world peace, called
the Fourteen Points?
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Battle in the Pacific that blocked the southern
plan of the Japanese to invade the United
States-served to begin to turn the tide in the
Pacific front in favor of the United States
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What was the Battle of Midway?
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WACS, Rosie the Riveter, and rationing
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What were some of the roles women played in the
war effort?
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Two reasons Truman decided to drop the atomic
bomb on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and
Nagasaki
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What were the refusal of the Japanese to
immediately surrender andthe projected loss of
lives if the U.S. had to invade the Japanese
islands?
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Executive Order 9066-later challenged in the
Supreme Court as a violation of the rights of
Japanese American citizens
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What was the order that relocated all Japanese
living on the West Coast of the U.S. into
internment camps in the interior of the United
States?
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The plane flown by Charles Lindbergh when he
made the first solo, nonstop flight from New York
to Paris in 1927
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What was the Spirit of St. Louis?
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The man responsible for developing the
assembly line production of automobiles and the
introduction of a minimum wage for an 8 hour day
for factory workers
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Who was Henry Ford?
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The attorneys for the 1925 Scopes trial that
challenged the Tennessee law forbidding the
teaching of evolution in the public schools
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Who were William Jennings Bryan for the
prosecution and Clarence Darrow for the defense??
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The 1919-20 nationwide anti-Communist crusade
against left-wing Americans whose patriotism was
suspect
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What was the Red Scare?
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The doctrine adopted in 1947 that promised U.S.
support for any nation that was threatened by
Communism-later led to involvement in both Korea
and Vietnam
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What was the Truman Doctrine?
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The six day crisis in 1962 when the U.S.
discovered the Soviets were building nuclear
missile launch sites in Cuba the U.S. then
ordered a blockade until the Soviets dismantled
the sites.
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What was the Cuban Missile Crisis?
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Draft card burning, draft dodging, and the
incident at Kent State
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What are examples of protests against continued
military involvement by the U.S. in Vietnam?
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Daily Double
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The formal name of the organization made up
of eleven nations that joined together after
World War II (primarily in response to the
aggression of the Soviet Union) pledged to fight
for each other if attacked
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What is the North American Treaty Organization
(NATO)?
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The principle in the Constitution that divides
the functions of government into legislative,
executive, and judicial and the reason for its use
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What are separation of powers and to keep any
one part of the government from gaining too much
power?
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Veto, Senate approval of Presidential
appointments, and declaring a law unconstitutional
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What are examples of the checks and balance
system?
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Type of government where the ultimate power
rests in all the citizens entitled to vote for
representatives who exercise that power
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What is a republic?
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Daily Double
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The principle that divides the powers and
responsibilities of government between the nation
and the state
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What is federalism?
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Battle known as the Shot Heard Round the
World because it began the American Revolution
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What was the Battle of Lexington?
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July 4, 1776
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What was the date of the adoption of the
Declaration of Independence?
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The battle fought in Virginia resulting in the
British surrender and the independence of the
American colonies
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What was the Battle of Yorktown?
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A decisive turning point victory for the
Americans because it brought the French in to aid
the American cause for independence
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What was the Battle of Saratoga?
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FINAL JEOPARDY
  • Post World War II

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Granted 13 billion in aid for former
servicemen-aid ranged from educational grants, to
housing, and other services to assist them with
the readjustment to society after World War II
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What was the G.I. Bill of Rights?
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