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Gina Carlisle
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WWII Results
The 1970s
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This is the reason that the United States used
atomic weapons against Japan.
A 100
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What is the Japanese had attacked us and we
wished to end the war quickly?
A 100
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This was the purpose of the Nuremberg Trials.
A 200
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What is to try war criminals, particularly Nazis?
A 200
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This woman founded a school for the children of
African American railroad workers in Florida,
before going on to found a college.
A 300
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Who is Mary McLeod Bethune?
A 300
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This allowed former soldiers to go to college and
buy homes when they returned from service.
A 400
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What is the GI Bill?
A 400
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This group gained newfound respect in the
workforce because of all the soldiers that had to
go to war in other countries.
A 500
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Who were women?
A 500
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This was the name for the countrys fear of
communism.
B 100
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What is the Red Scare
B 100
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This couple was put on trial for spying for the
Soviets.
B 200
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Who were Julius and Ethel Rosenberg?
B 200
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The policy of preventing the spread of Communism
to other countries was also known as this.
B 300
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What is the Containment Policy?
B 300
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This gave money to struggling countries to
prevent them from turning to Communism to solve
their problems.
B 400
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What is the Marshall Plan?
B 400
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This event was the closest that the world has
ever come to nuclear war.
B 500
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What was the Cuban Missile Crisis?
B 500
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This is the name of the group that rode buses
across the country to protest segregation.
C 100
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Who are the Freedom Riders?
C 100
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One of the ways that southern groups attempted to
keep African Americans from voting.
C 200
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What are poll taxes or literacy tests?
C 200
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This is the name of the movement that empowered
women to work outside the home and try to break
through the glass ceiling.
C 300
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What is Feminism?
C 300
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C 400
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This is the law that makes it so that programs
for women, especially in college sports and
scholarships, must be equal to those for men.
C 400
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What is Title IX?
C 400
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This Supreme Court decision made segregation in
public schools illegal.
C 500
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What is Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka,
KS?
C 500
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This is the name of the theory that if one
country in an area becomes communist, the others
will also.
D 100
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What is the Domino Theory?
D 100
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When this city fell, the French realized they
couldnt handle the war anymore.
D 200
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What is Dien Bien Phu?
D 200
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People who opposed the war were known as
__________, and people who supported the war were
known as _____________. (You MUST name both)
D 300
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What were doves and hawks?
D 300
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One of the two highly destructive weapons used by
Americans to destroy the land in Vietnam.
D 400
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What was Napalm or Agent Orange?
D 400
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This was the name of President Nixons policy of
gradually withdrawing from Vietnam.
D 500
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What is Vietnamization?
D 500
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This was the name of the scandal involving
Richard Nixon and the theft of documents from the
Democratic National Headquarters.
E 100
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What was Watergate?
E 100
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This is the purpose of OPEC.
E 200
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What is to regulate the prices and production of
Middle Eastern Oil.
E 200
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This restricted the rights of the president in
sending troops into battle.
E 300
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What is the War Powers Act?
E 300
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This was the location of a toxic waste dump on
top of which a neighborhood was built.
E 400
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What is Love Canal?
E 400
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This program allowed disadvantaged children to
learn the skills they would need to be successful
in school.
E 500
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What is the Head Start Program?
E 500
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This was the term for the panic that occurred
when the year 2000 commenced because people were
unsure about whether the worlds computers would
be able to calculate a change to a new millennium.
F 100
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What is Y2K?
F 100
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This area of the country has been important to
many national elections.
F 200
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What is the Sun Belt?
F 200
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In this scandal, weapons were secretly sold to
Iran in exchange for the release of Middle East
hostages and the profits went to Nicaraguan
rebels, who Congress had prohibited Americans
from supporting.
F 300
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What is the Iran-Contra Scandal?
F 300
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The purpose of this organization is to allow the
United States, Mexico, and Canada to trade with
each other without high taxes.
F 400
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What is the North American Free Trade Agreement?
F 400
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This allowed the government to secretly spy on
suspected terrorists, among other things.
F 500
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What is the Patriot Act?
F 500
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The United States was interested in preventing
other countries from obtaining weapons of mass
destruction, an idea also known as this.
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What is Nuclear Proliferation?
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