US History Double Jeopardy
Review Game – 2nd Semester
Economics
Great
Depression
Cold War
LBJ & Vietnam
Potpourri
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Economics for 200
Borrowing money to help pay for
stocks.
What is Buying On-Margin?
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Economics for 400
The belief that men and women should be
paid equally for equal work
What is Pay Equity?
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Economics for 600
Extra money to spend and an increased
number of products to buy led to this
American way of life.
What is Consumerism?
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Economics for 800
The fact that American workers
must now compete for jobs with
workers in other countries is an
indicator that the US is part of
this economy.
What is Global Economy?
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Economics for 1000
Farmers saw an increase in this
due to the Post-WWI economy.
What is Debts?
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Great Depression for 200
Type of Government policy involving
giving payments or food to the poor.
What is Direct Relief?
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Great Depression for 400
The availability of easy credit, a farm
crisis, and tariffs on foreign goods led
to this.
What is The Great Depression?
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Great Depression for 600
New Deal policies tried to raise the price
of farm goods by reducing these.
What is Surplus crops?
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Great Depression for 800
Roosevelt’s first action as President to
deal with the worsening Depression.
What is Bank Holiday?
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Great Depression for 1000
The longest lasting New Deal policy.
What is Social Security Act?
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Cold War for 200
The organization responsible for
rooting out communists living in
America
What is House Un-American Activities
Committee (HUAC)?
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Cold War for 400
This link between the White House and
the Kremlin was created in 1963 to ease
Cold War tensions and help improve
communications in the event of a
political or military crisis.
What is Hot Line (Red phone)?
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Cold War for 600
The main goal of this was to restrict
the spread of communism after World
War II.
What is Truman Doctrine?
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Cold War for 800
The Cuban Missile Crisis came to an end
when Khrushchev promised to remove the
missiles from Cuba in exchange for Kennedy
secretly promising to remove missiles from
this country.
What is Turkey?
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Cold War for 1000
Western plans to reunify Germany led
to this Soviet reaction.
What is Blockade West Berlin?
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LBJ & Vietnam for 200
Many young men, including Mr.
Simmons’s father, avoiding serving
in Vietnam by earning a deferment
for this.
What is Attending College?
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LBJ & Vietnam for 400
The primary reason the United States
was involved in the Vietnam War.
Who is Contain the Spread of
Communism?
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LBJ & Vietnam for 600
Minorities and the poor were supposed to
benefit the most from this social program
created by LBJ.
What is The Great Society?
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LBJ & Vietnam for 800
This early 1968 event was the first
indicator to many Americans that the
Vietnam War could not be won.
What is Tet Offensive?
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LBJ & Vietnam for 1000
Congress passed this Act after the
Vietnam War to limit the president’s
authority to wage war.
What is War Powers Act?
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Potpourri for 200
This Supreme Court case legalized
separate but equal facilities and the
passage of ‘Jim Crow’ laws.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson?
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Potpourri for 400
As the Baby Boomers age, The US
government has had increased difficulty
in providing these benefits.
What is Social Security?
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Potpourri for 600
Belief that if one country fell to
communism the rest of the region will
also fall.
What is Domino Theory?
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Potpourri for 800
This plan to bring ‘peace with honor’
ultimately led to the expansion of the
Vietnam War into neighboring
countries.
What is Vietnamization?
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Potpourri for 1000
FDR’s controversial policy to increase
the number of Supreme Court justices
that failed to become a law.
What is Court-Packing?
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