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THIS
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Jeopardy
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With
Your
Host...
Gina Carlisle
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Jeopardy
Vocabulary
The 1970s
Modern America
Cold War
Civil Rights
Court Cases
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These are countries that are formally
independent, but heavily influenced by another
country, like the Soviet Union.
A 100
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What are satellite nations?
A 100
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These were places where people could go to escape
radiation in case of a nuclear explosion.
A 200
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What are fallout shelters?
A 200
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To charge a public official with an offense while
in office.
A 300
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What is impeachment?
A 300
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High inflation combined with high unemployment
and stagnant demand in a country's economy.
A 400
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What is stagflation?
A 400
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Lying under oath.
A 500
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What is perjury?
A 500
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This man was responsible for creating much of the
panic over Communism during the early Cold War.
B 100
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Who was Joseph McCarthy?
B 100
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This was the Congressional committee responsible
for investigating Hollywood elite and others
suspected of Communist ties.
B 200
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What was the HUAC (House Un-American Activities
Committee)?
B 200
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These were lists people could be put on if they
were suspected of having Communist ties.
B 300
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What are blacklists?
B 300
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This plan, which gave money to struggling
countries to prevent them from turning to
Communism, was actually created by Harry Truman.
B 400
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What is the Marshall Plan?
B 400
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This man was fired for publicly criticizing
President Truman.
B 500
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Who was General Douglas MacArthur?
B 500
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One of the other movements that was born out of
the Civil Rights Movement.
C 100
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What is the womens movement, Native American
rights movement, Hispanic rights movement?
(answers will vary)
C 100
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An invisible barrier to advancement in a
profession, especially affecting women and
members of minorities is also known as this.
C 200
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What is the glass ceiling?
C 200
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Southern lawmakers often used this tactic to
prevent Civil Rights legislation from becoming
law.
C 300
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What is filibuster?
C 300
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DAILY DOUBLE
DAILY DOUBLE
Place A Wager
C 400
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Malcolm X believed in equality by __________.
C 400
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What is any means necessary?
C 400
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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, KS did
this.
C 500
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What is to make segregation of public schools
illegal?
C 500
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Roe v. Wade was a famous Supreme Court case about
what?
D 100
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What is abortion?
D 100
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This 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
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What is Miranda v. Arizona?
D 200
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Until the case of Brown v. Board of Education of
Topeka, KS, this case was used as the legal
precedent for segregation.
D 300
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What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
D 300
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In 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
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What is Gideon v. Wainwright?
D 400
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The Supreme Court ruled in this case that busing
was an appropriate remedy for the problem school
segregation.
D 500
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What is Swann v. Board of Education?
D 500
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This was the name for the group of people who
broke in to the Democratic National Headquarters
in the Watergate Complex.
E 100
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Who were the White House Plumbers?
E 100
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Nixon claimed executive privilege to attempt to
prevent this from happening.
E 200
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What is the release of secretly taped White House
conversations?
E 200
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President Ford took a lot of heat for doing this
shortly after taking office.
E 300
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What is pardoning Nixon?
E 300
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Americas involvement with Vietnam ended with the
evacuation of this major South Vietnamese city.
E 400
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What is Saigon?
E 400
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This was the name for people who avoided being
called into military service during the Vietnam
War.
E 500
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Who are draft dodgers?
E 500
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This disease was discovered by scientists during
the 1980s and quickly became an epidemic.
F 100
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What is AIDS?
F 100
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This group of people typically believes in the
idea of limited government control.
F 200
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Who are conservatives?
F 200
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This cabinet department was created as a response
to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.
F 300
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What is the Department of Homeland Security?
F 300
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The 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
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What is Oklahoma City?
F 400
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This 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
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What is perestroika?
F 500
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The Final Jeopardy Category is Literature Please
record your wager.
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This book, by Betty Friedan, is about women who
have become disenchanted with their lives as
housewives and mothers.
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What is The Feminine Mystique?
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