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| President Franklin Roosevelt's wife; US delegate to the UN; helped create the declaration of human rights |
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| H-bomb; a type of nuclear bomb |
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| US senator from Wisconsin; kept people stresses about communism in the United States |
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| Leader of the Soviet Union |
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| European Recovery Program; US program of giving money to European countries to help them rebuild their economies after World War II |
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| National Defense Education ACt |
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| Federal law that appropriated money to improve education in science, math, and foreign language |
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| Meeting of US president Harry Truman, British prime minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin after Germany's surrender in World War II; resulted in the division of Germany into four zones of occupation |
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| Countries controlled by the Soviet Union |
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| The world's first artificial satellite; launched by the Soviet Union in 1957 |
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| Huge corporations run by single families that monopolized the Japanese economy before World War II |
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| Movement pushing for the formation of a Jewish homeland in Palestine |
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