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Final Jeopardy

Space

$100 Question from H1

This was the 1st Satellite to

successfully orbit the earth.

$100 Answer from H1

What was Sputnik?

$200 Question from H1

The two superpowers narrowly avoided World

War III when they agreed to remove their

missiles during this 1962 crisis.

$200 Answer from H1

What was the Cuban Missile Crisis?

$300 Question from H1

The U.S. and the Soviets

developed the capacity to

destroy each other many

times over and to turn the

Earth into a dead

wasteland.

$300 Answer from H1

What was the nuclear arms race?

$400 Question from H1

Unlike the previous

alliance formed after

WWI, this new post-

WWII alliance was

different because it had

military backing and

membership of the U.S.

$400 Answer from H1

What is the U.N. or United Nations

$500 Question from H1

This British trained lawyer

preached nonviolence to lead

India to democratic

independence.

$500 Answer from H1

Who was Gandhi?

$100 Question from H2

The U. S. responded to the Soviet takeover of

Eastern Europe with this program that sent

billions of dollars in American aid to Western

Europe to rebuild economies crippled by war

and to strengthen them against communism and

further encourage global capitalism.

$100 Answer from H2

What was the Marshall Plan

$200 Question from H2

Following World War II,

two Chinese armies fought

for control of China. The

winners were the Chinese

communists who

established this formal title

of China in 1949.

$200 Answer from H2

What is the People’s Republic of China?

$300 Question from H2

Despite the fact that his Chinese

government made some huge mistakes;

this man’s leadership became a model

for peasant revolutions in other places

like Vietnam and Cuba.

$300 Answer from H2

Who was Mao Zedong?

$400 Question from H2

This was President Truman’s

response to the Soviet attempt

to push and blockade the Allies

out of Berlin in 1948.

$400 Answer from H2

What was the Berlin Airlift?

$500 Question from H2

The construction of this in 1961

would later become the most

prominent symbol of the Cold

War.

$500 Answer from H2

What was the Berlin Wall?

$100 Question from H3

Western leaders used this theory

to explain their fears that if

another country fell to

communism, more might topple.

$100 Answer from H3

What was the “domino theory.”?

$200 Question from H3

Just 5 years after WWII, this former colony

of imperial Japan, was involved in a war

that required the first big test of the United

Nations.

$200 Answer from H3

What was the Korean War?

$300 Question from H3

The Soviets had their own

“Vietnam” experience in this

country where they fought

against Muslim guerrillas,

including Osama bin Laden,

who were supported by the

U.S.

$300 Answer from H3

What was the proxy war in Afghanistan?

$400 Question from H3

By 1950, the U.S. and several other Western

European countries formed this military alliance.

$400 Answer from H3

What is N.A.T.O (North Atlantic Treaty Organization)?

$500 Question from H3

Although the United States and the Soviet Union

never fought each other directly, they supported

opposing sides in armed conflicts around the

world. Local wars like Korea and Vietnam turned

into substitutes, or “____________,” for the

superpower death-struggle between communism

and capitalism.

$500 Answer from H3

What were the proxy Wars?

$100 Question from H4

In 1975 this war was

declared over with the

people of this small,

poor, rural country and

former colony of

imperial France that

had defeated the most

powerful nation in the

world.

$100 Answer from H4

What was the Vietnam War?

$200 Question from H4

This strategic warfare did not use traditional front lines of attack and

would instead rely on tactics such as attacking and disappearing

against the enemy.

$200 Answer from H4

What is guerrilla war/warfare?

$300 Question from H4

In 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first human to

experience this historic event.

$300 Answer from H4

Who was the first human to set foot on the

moon?

$400 Question from H4

This U.S. president took office after Harry Truman and

served two terms from 1953-1960

$400 Answer from H4

Who was Dwight D. Eisenhower?

$500 Question from H4

This U.S. president was in office during

the Cuban Missile Crisis.

$500 Answer from H4

When did President John F. Kennedy serve as president?

$100 Question from H5

This U.S. president was in office from 1963-1967

during the height of the Vietnam War years.

$100 Answer from H5

When did Lyndon B. Johnson serve as president?

$200 Question from H5

This U.S. vice president took over in 1945 to become president

after the death of FDR.

$200 Answer from H5

When did Harry Truman serve as president?

$300 Question from H5

This non-violent tactic was used successfully in India by

disobeying unfair British laws, enduring police beatings, and

serving prison time. Gandhi shamed Britain by showing the

world that Britain’s democratic government was denying

democracy to Indians.

$300 Answer from H5

What was Civil Disobedience in India?

$400 Question from H5

This economic philosophy

guided the Soviet Union and

other Eastern countries

during the cold war

$400 Answer from H5

What is Communism?

$500 Question from H5

This economic philosophy guided the

Western countries against that of the Soviet

Union

$500 Answer from H5

What is Capitalism?

Final Jeopardy

Explain how the new view of Earth from space

may represent a profound shift in human

perspective

Final Jeopardy Answer

One earth = one people/ not divided

by country or military.

And or the idea that earth is viewed

as a beautiful planet too precious to

waste over nuclear arms race and

other competitive environmental

destruction