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FINALJEOPARDY
Truman’s policy of keeping Soviet influence within
existing boundaries.
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What is containment?
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Eastern European countries dominated by Soviet power and
influence were called these.
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What are satellite nations?
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This communist leader gained
control in China in 1949.
Who is Mao Zedong?
$300
Mass producing homes was this man’s vision.
Who is William Levitt?
$400
This man who created a program to rebuild Europe after WWII; NATO members joined.
Who is George
Marshall?$500
This WWII general defined the “domino theory”; he served as
president for two terms during the
1950s.
Who is Dwight D.
Eisenhower?$100
This senator accused many of being “dirty commies”; with no
evidence, he destroyed many lives.
Who is Joseph McCarthy?
$200
This General argued that the U.S. had to
attack China to win in Korea; Truman
promptly fired him.
Who is the Douglas
MacArthur?
$300
This revolutionary
leader set up a socialist state in Cuba in 1959.
Who is Fidel Castro?
$400
This Soviet leader launched
Sputnik to the shock of many
in the U.S.
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Who is Nikita Khushchev?
The hippies rejection of
1950s values was classified by
this term.
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What is the counterculture?
The U.S. and the Soviet Union came
close to nuclear war during the fourteen days of this fiasco.
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What is the Cuban
Missile Crisis?
These “hit and run” were a new type of
warfare we first experienced in
Vietnam.
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What is guerilla warfare?
This president had visions of a Great Society but gave
it up to pay for Vietnam.
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Who is Lyndon
Johnson?
The US Embassy was attacked by the North
Vietnamese during this event, creating a turning point in the
Vietnam War.
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What is the Tet Offensive?
This policy of Nixon’s, meaning
“reducing tension”, was
applied throughout this decade.
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What is détente ?
Nixon and Brezhnev signed this treaty
which controlled the number of nuclear
weapons each could hold.
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What is the S.A.L.T.
agreement? (Strategic Arms Limitations Treaty)
The Soviet Union invaded this
country, resulting in a U.S. boycott of
the Moscow Olympics.
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What is Afghanistan?
Bringing these two leaders to an
agreement at Camp David was Carter’s biggest achievement.
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Who are Sadat and
Begin?
The NY Times reported lies and errors made in
Vietnam in these defense
documents.
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What are the Pentagon Papers?
This Soviet leader “made
the fear disappear”.
$100
Who is Mikhail
Gorbachev?
The Berlin Wall came tumbling down when this president was in
power.
$200
Who is George Bush
Sr.?
Reagan increased defense spending to research this
defense program.
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What is SDI or Star Wars?
Strategic Defense Initiative
This Soviet policy of “speaking out
openly and honestly” was a great change for
the USSR.
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What is glasnost ?
In this affair, Reagan sold arms to one country to
pay for a revolution in another, all
without Congress’ approval!
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What is the Iran-Contra
Affair?
Diplomacy
These three factors contributed to the end of the
Cold War.
What are: (name 3!)1. The USSR’s economic troubles at home.
2. Gorbie’s policies of glasnost and perestroika
3. Reagan’s hawkish attitude and STAR WARS program.
4. The Soviet’s burden of fighting a war in Afghanistan.
