People
Who were least likely to be a soldier in Vietnam?
College students
NAFTA had its most dramatic impact on economic relations between the U.S. and:
Mexico
Navajo Indians served in a unique capacity during the war as:
radio code talkers.
The Camp David Accords were a highlight of the presidency of:
Jimmy Carter.
This established land grant colleges (like poopdue) to teach scientific agriculture...
The 1862 Morrill Act:
As a result of mass distribution of phonograph records, what became popular worldwide?
American Jazz.
Carter responded to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan by cancelling what?
American participation in the 1980 Moscow Olympics.
The Cherokee responded to pressure from whites by:
learning English, becoming Christians, and adopting farming.
Why was the issue of school integration moot in most big cities by the 1980s?
white flight to the suburbs
In 1982, Reagan announced a highly publicized "war" on:
Drugs
The American public distrusted Gerald Ford as president because he:
pardoned Nixon of possible federal crimes.
After Obama's stimulus plan was passed by Congress what happened?
unemployment continued to grow and the recession deepened.
Gene Tunney, Gertrude Ederle, Satchel Paige, and Bill Tilden These all illustrate the new celebrity ofwhat?
Sports heroes
Reagan's Strategic Defensive Initiative was a plan to:
shoot down missiles with space-based weapons.
In a 1950 speech, Senator Joseph R. McCarthy claimed that:
there were 205 communists working in the State Department.
In 1955, Emmitt Till was murdered in Mississippi because he:
violated the code of black submission by speaking informally to a white woman.
The first event which foreshadowed the coming of World War II was:
Japan's seizure of Manchuria
The most important element of the Treaty of Versailles was, in President Wilson's view:
a league of nations to help resolve future disputes.
The collapse of communism in Eastern Europe was signaled by the 1989:
fall of the Berlin Wall.
Amusement parks like Boyd Park in Richvalley were built to provide entertainment for:
The working class.
Critical media coverage of the Vietnam War first appeared with Morley Safer's report in August 1965 on this network:
CBS.
Founder of the Moral Majority, he was a major figure in the rise of the New Right.
Jerry Falwell
Martin Luther King called for a campaign against segregation in 1963 in this "most segregated big city in America."
Birmingham
This authorized President Johnson to "take all necessary steps" to prevent aggression in Vietnam.
The Gulf of Tonkin Resolution:
Truman's most important practical contribution to the civil rights movement was:
integrating the armed services by executive order.
Skyrocketing prices, rising unemployment, and low economic growth was termed _____ in the 1970s.
Stagflation
What created overnight fads, reshaped leisure time, and reshaped consumption?
Television.
The Bush Doctrine (concerning the defense of the USA) was a policy of:
preemptive war to defend the U.S.
The average age of an American soldier in WW2 was _______, in Vietnam it was 19:
25
In President Bush's 2002 speech, the "Axis of Evil" included these 3 countries:
Iraq, Iran, and North Korea.
Although Wilson's neutrality policy allowed the U.S. to trade with both Germany and England, in practice, most trade was with England because
a British naval blockade prevented trade with Germany.
When Hawai'ian Queen Lili'uokalani appealed to President Cleveland for support after she was deposed, Cleveland:
He reinstated her.
The basic belief of supply-side economics is that tax deductions will...
spur economic growth in the long run.
Elvis Presley perfected his unique style listening and performing in Memphis on this black thoroughfare and center of African music.
Beale Street
Horizontal combinations like the Standard Oil trust controlled what?
Every step of production from materials to finished products.
The election of 2000 was finally settled when:
George W. Bush was announced the winner by the Supreme Court.
The Democratic Party headquarters was broken into in an attempt to install listening devices. Who hired the burglars? (It wasn't Nixon, but he knew about it)
The CREEP
The Supreme Court case of Korematsu v. United States upheld FDR's what?
relocation and internment program.
Who won a landslide election with campaign ads declaring "it's morning again in America"?
Ronald Reagan
What do we call border factories made possible by NAFTA.
A maquiladora
Much of the "shame" caused by inept relief efforts in New Orleans following Hurricane Katrina underscored:
race and class issues within the city's population.
"Ping-Pong diplomacy" symbolized the dramatic changes Nixon made in U.S. policy toward:
the People's Republic of China.
Final Jeopardy theme - Rock and Roll
What is your wager?
Released in 1955, this song tells the story of a hot rod race and a broken romance, the lyrics describing a man driving a V8 Ford and chasing his unfaithful girlfriend in her Cadillac Coupe DeVille.