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  1. 1. On June 22, 1944, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed into law the Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944
  2. 5. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, also called the North Atlantic Alliance, is an intergovernmental military alliance based on the North Atlantic Treaty which was signed on 4 April 1949
  3. 6. An outlying district of a city, especially a residential one.
  4. 7. the Crimea Conference and codenamed the Argonaut Conference, held from February 4 to 11, 1945, was the World War II meeting of the heads of government of the United
  5. 9. formally the Treaty of Friendship, Co-operation, and Mutual Assistance and sometimes, informally, WarPac. was a collective defence treaty among the Soviet Union and seven other Soviet
  6. 10. The art or practice of pursuing a dangerous policy to the limits of safety before stopping, typically in politics.
  7. 11. was created in 1938 to investigate alleged disloyalty and subversive activities on the part of private citizens, public employees, and those organizations suspected of having Communist ties.
  8. 12. The notional barrier separating the former Soviet bloc and the West prior to the decline of communism that followed the political events in eastern Europe in 1989.
  9. 13. The principle that the US should give support to countries or peoples threatened by Soviet forces or communist insurrection. First expressed in 1947 by US President Truman in a speech to Congress seeking aid for Greece and Turkey, the doctrine was seen by the communists as an open declaration of the Cold War.
  10. 15. the first artificial Earth satellite.
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  1. 2. At the end of the Second World War, U.S., British, and Soviet military forces divided and occupied Germany.
  2. 3. was held at Cecilienhof, the home of Crown Prince Wilhelm, in Potsdam, occupied Germany, from 17 July to 2 August 1945. Participants were the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom and the United States.
  3. 4. An intercontinental ballistic missile is a guided ballistic missile with a minimum range of 5,500 kilometres (3,400 mi) primarily designed for nuclear weapons delivery
  4. 8. To keep something that's dangerous or a threat to something under control.
  5. 14. the practice of making accusations of subversion or treason without proper regard for evidence.