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The 1970s
Modern America
Cold War
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5These are countries that are formally
independent, but heavily influenced by another
country, like the Soviet Union.
A 100
6What are satellite nations?
A 100
7These were places where people could go to escape
radiation in case of a nuclear explosion.
A 200
8What are fallout shelters?
A 200
9To charge a public official with an offense while
in office.
A 300
10What is impeachment?
A 300
11High inflation combined with high unemployment
and stagnant demand in a country's economy.
A 400
12What is stagflation?
A 400
13Lying under oath.
A 500
14What is perjury?
A 500
15This man was responsible for creating much of the
panic over Communism during the early Cold War.
B 100
16Who was Joseph McCarthy?
B 100
17This was the Congressional committee responsible
for investigating Hollywood elite and others
suspected of Communist ties.
B 200
18What was the HUAC (House Un-American Activities
Committee)?
B 200
19These were lists people could be put on if they
were suspected of having Communist ties.
B 300
20What are blacklists?
B 300
21This plan, which gave money to struggling
countries to prevent them from turning to
Communism, was actually created by Harry Truman.
B 400
22What is the Marshall Plan?
B 400
23This man was fired for publicly criticizing
President Truman.
B 500
24Who was General Douglas MacArthur?
B 500
25One of the other movements that was born out of
the Civil Rights Movement.
C 100
26What is the womens movement, Native American
rights movement, Hispanic rights movement?
(answers will vary)
C 100
27An invisible barrier to advancement in a
profession, especially affecting women and
members of minorities is also known as this.
C 200
28What is the glass ceiling?
C 200
29Southern lawmakers often used this tactic to
prevent Civil Rights legislation from becoming
law.
C 300
30What is filibuster?
C 300
31DAILY DOUBLE
DAILY DOUBLE
Place A Wager
C 400
32Malcolm X believed in equality by __________.
C 400
33What is any means necessary?
C 400
34Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, KS did
this.
C 500
35What is to make segregation of public schools
illegal?
C 500
36Roe v. Wade was a famous Supreme Court case about
what?
D 100
37What is abortion?
D 100
38This court case made it so that people under
arrest are informed of their right to remain
silent, not to incriminate themselves, and so on.
D 200
39What is Miranda v. Arizona?
D 200
40Until the case of Brown v. Board of Education of
Topeka, KS, this case was used as the legal
precedent for segregation.
D 300
41What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
D 300
42In this case, the Supreme Court ruled that a
person has the right to have an attorney
appointed by the state if he cannot afford one of
his own.
D 400
43What is Gideon v. Wainwright?
D 400
44The Supreme Court ruled in this case that busing
was an appropriate remedy for the problem school
segregation.
D 500
45What is Swann v. Board of Education?
D 500
46This was the name for the group of people who
broke in to the Democratic National Headquarters
in the Watergate Complex.
E 100
47Who were the White House Plumbers?
E 100
48Nixon claimed executive privilege to attempt to
prevent this from happening.
E 200
49What is the release of secretly taped White House
conversations?
E 200
50President Ford took a lot of heat for doing this
shortly after taking office.
E 300
51What is pardoning Nixon?
E 300
52Americas involvement with Vietnam ended with the
evacuation of this major South Vietnamese city.
E 400
53What is Saigon?
E 400
54This was the name for people who avoided being
called into military service during the Vietnam
War.
E 500
55Who are draft dodgers?
E 500
56This disease was discovered by scientists during
the 1980s and quickly became an epidemic.
F 100
57What is AIDS?
F 100
58This group of people typically believes in the
idea of limited government control.
F 200
59Who are conservatives?
F 200
60This cabinet department was created as a response
to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
F 300
61What is the Department of Homeland Security?
F 300
62The United States experienced terrorism from
within on April 19, 1995 when Timothy McVeigh and
his co-conspirators bombed a Federal Building in
this city.
F 400
63What is Oklahoma City?
F 400
64This Russian policy literally means
restructuring and is often credited for the
dissolution of the Soviet Union because it
introduced economic and political reforms.
F 500
65What is perestroika?
F 500
66The Final Jeopardy Category is Literature Please
record your wager.
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67This book, by Betty Friedan, is about women who
have become disenchanted with their lives as
housewives and mothers.
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68What is The Feminine Mystique?
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