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Cold War Vocabulary part 1
Cold War
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History
9th Grade
04/09/2010

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Eleanor Roosevelt
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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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Hydrogen Bomb
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H-bomb; a type of nuclear bomb
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Joseph McCarthy
Definition
US senator from Wisconsin; kept people stresses about communism in the United States
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Joseph Stalin
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Leader of the Soviet Union
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Marshall Plan
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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
Definition
Federal law that appropriated money to improve education in science, math, and foreign language
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Postdam Conference
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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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Satellite nations
Definition
Countries controlled by the Soviet Union
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Sputnik
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The world's first artificial satellite; launched by the Soviet Union in 1957
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Zaibatsu
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Huge corporations run by single families that monopolized the Japanese economy before World War II
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Zionism
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Movement pushing for the formation of a Jewish homeland in Palestine
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