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- 3. The first Earth-orbiting artificial satellite. It was launched into an elliptical low earth orbit by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957
- 5. was a civil war between the states of North Korea and South Korea that were created out of the post-World War II Soviet and American occupation zones in Korea
- 8. Wisconsin Senator who began sensational campaign in February, 1950 by asserting that the U.S. State Department had been infiltrated by Communists.
- 10. massive transfer of aid money to help rebuild postwar Western Europe, intended to bolster capitalist and democratic governments and prevent domestic communist groups from riding poverty and misery to power
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- 1. Servicemen's Readjustment Act of 1944 provided for college or vocational education for returning World War II veterans
- 2. a military alliance established by the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty on 4 April 1949.
- 4. A meeting in Yalta in which the leaders discussed the treatment of Germany, the status of Poland, the creation of the United Nations and Russian entry into the war against Japan.
- 6. A cohort of individuals born in the United States between 1946 and 1964, which was just after World War II in a time of relative peace and prosperity.
- 7. Truman's policy of social improvement, which included support for increasing welfare, slum clearance, and civil rights.
- 9. . The blockade was a Soviet attempt to starve out the allies in Berlin in order to gain supremacy.