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  1. CLICK HERE FOR FINAL JEOPARDY 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s $100 $100 $100 $100 $100 $200 $200 $200 $200 $200 $300 $300 $300 $300 $300 $400 $400 $400 $400 $400 $500 $500 $500 $500 $500

  2. Truman’s policy of keeping Soviet influence within existing boundaries. .

  3. What is containment? $100

  4. Eastern European countries dominated by Soviet power and influence were called these. .

  5. What are satellite nations? $200

  6. This communist leader gained control in China in 1949.

  7. Who is Mao Zedong? $300

  8. Mass producing homes was this man’s vision.

  9. Who is William Levitt? $400

  10. This man who created a program to rebuild Europe after WWII; NATO members joined.

  11. Who is George Marshall? $500

  12. This WWII general defined the “domino theory”; he served as president for two terms during the 1950s.

  13. Who is Dwight D. Eisenhower? $100

  14. This senator accused many of being “dirty commies”; with no evidence, he destroyed many lives.

  15. Who is Joseph McCarthy? $200

  16. This General argued that the U.S. had to attack China to win in Korea; Truman promptly fired him.

  17. Who is the Douglas MacArthur? $300

  18. This revolutionary leader set up a socialist state in Cuba in 1959.

  19. Who is Fidel Castro? $400

  20. This Soviet leader launched Sputnik to the shock of many in the U.S.

  21. Who is Nikita Khushchev? $???

  22. The hippies rejection of 1950s values was classified by this term.

  23. What is the counterculture? $100

  24. The U.S. and the Soviet Union came close to nuclear war during the fourteen days of this fiasco.

  25. What is the Cuban Missile Crisis? $200

  26. These “hit and run” were a new type of warfare we first experienced in Vietnam.

  27. What is guerilla warfare? $300

  28. This president had visions of a Great Society but gave it up to pay for Vietnam.

  29. Who is Lyndon Johnson? $400

  30. The US Embassy was attacked by the North Vietnamese during this event, creating a turning point in the Vietnam War.

  31. What is the Tet Offensive? $500

  32. This policy of Nixon’s, meaning “reducing tension”, was applied throughout this decade.

  33. What is détente ? $100

  34. DAILY DOUBLE

  35. Nixon and Brezhnev signed this treaty which controlled the number of nuclear weapons each could hold.

  36. What is the S.A.L.T. agreement? (Strategic Arms Limitations Treaty) $200

  37. The Soviet Union invaded this country, resulting in a U.S. boycott of the Moscow Olympics.

  38. What is Afghanistan? $300

  39. Bringing these two leaders to an agreement at Camp David was Carter’s biggest achievement.

  40. Who are Sadat and Begin? $400

  41. DAILY DOUBLE

  42. The NY Times reported lies and errors made in Vietnam in these defense documents.

  43. What are the Pentagon Papers? $???

  44. This Soviet leader “made the fear disappear”.

  45. Who is Mikhail Gorbachev? $100

  46. The Berlin Wall came tumbling down when this president was in power.

  47. Who is George Bush Sr.? $200

  48. Reagan increased defense spending to research this defense program.

  49. What is SDI or Star Wars? Strategic Defense Initiative $300

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