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87 Cards in this Set
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first black major league baseball player
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Jackie Robinson
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sugar, butter, rubber, gasoline were among the items in short supply during WWII; therefore, they were ________
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rationed
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U.S. forces were able to capture a victory at this battle when planes accidentally found the Japanese planes refueling on the Japanese carriers.
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Battle of Midway
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MLK, Jr. was killed...
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at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, TN
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The Supreme Allied Commander of the D-Day operation during WWII
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General Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Martin Luther King, Jr. looked to his philosophy of civil disobedience as an example of non-violent resistance to unfair laws
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Mohandas Gandhi
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Germany had to abandon daylight attacks in the Battle of Britain because
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too many of their planes were being shot down
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grew out of the sounds of rhythm and blues
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rock and roll music
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To soothe concerns about JFK's Catholic religion, he spoke in favor of separation of church and ____
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state
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President Truman fired General Douglas MacArthur
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MacArthur demanded Truman's approval to expand the war
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As a result of the arrest of Rosa Parks, black citizens in Montgomery organized a ---------
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boycott
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Who belonged to the AXIS powers (hint: It's a Jap Germ)
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Italy, Japan, and Germany
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The Korean War is also sometimes referred to as the
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Forgotten War
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Its purpose was to help the people of Europe recover from WWII
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The Marshall Plan
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The Battle of Midway was a _________________ in the Pacific Theater of WWII
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turning point
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The largest public works project in American history
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the Interstate (Federal) highway system
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As a result of this act passed by Congress, many returning veterans could get loans to buy homes or businesses or attend college
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GI Bill
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This invention helped the British fight off incoming enemy planes
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radar
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Rapidly increasing birthrates following WWII
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baby boom
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It ended the Great Depression
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WWII
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The American dream was alive and well in Levittown where homes were affordable, mainly due to its construction process which was likened to the ________
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assembly line
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He killed Lee Harvey Oswald
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Jack Ruby
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Who organized freedom rides?
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CORE
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Who organized sit ins?
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SNCC
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George Kennan, U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union, urged the U.S. to adopt a policy of ___ against Soviet (Communist) expansion
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containment
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people built these in their backyards in the 1950s because of a public fear of nuclear attack
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bomb shelters
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Accused of spying and imprisoned for perjury during the Cold War
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Alger Hiss
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Roosevelt exchanged destroyers for these with Great Britain
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British naval bases
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Plessy vs. Ferguson, the "separate but equal" case, legalized
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segregation
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The Korean War ended in containment, not _______
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victory
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The government encouraged people to remain poor by
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evicting them from their housing when they earn more money
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A political party led by Hitler in Germany that preached that the nation and the race were more important than the individual
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Nazi party
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Microfilm from Whitaker Chambers pumpkin patch; "proved" Hiss was a Communist spy
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Pumpkin Papers
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King of rock n roll
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Elvis Presley
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Symbol of the American working woman in WWII factories
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Rosie the Riveter
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Hitler was most angry at this, which plunged his country into a terrible depression (forced Germany to accept guilt for the war and pay war reparations)
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The Treaty of Versailles
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the 1960s presidential election between Kennedy and Nixon was strongly influenced by
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the televised presidential debates
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Kennedy, in his inaugural address, stressed the need for citizens to become more involved in his quote...
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"ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country."
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Some people criticized the suburbs because of its
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conformity and lack of individuality
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Senator who accused many, including the U.S. army, of being communists; never proved anyone of being a communist; censured by the U.S. Senate
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Joseph McCarthy
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Japan invaded _____ to get resources
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Manchuria
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Popular children's author in the 50's
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Dr. Theodore Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss)
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Developed a polio vaccine
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Dr. Jonas Salk
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The government raised money during WWII by
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selling war bonds and raising taxes
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WWII began in Europe when Germany invaded...
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Poland
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The American strategy to defeat the Japanese in the Pacific was referred to as the ________ strategy
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island hopping
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After WWII, they were the world's two superpowers
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U.S. and Soviet Union
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In 1940, the French surrendered Paris rather than
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having it destroyed by the Germans
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The Big Three in WWII
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Franklin Roosevelt (US)
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ended with the Soviets agreeing to remove their missiles and the U.S. promised not to invade; secret part of the agreement was for the U.S. to remove their missiles from Turkey
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Cuban Missile Crisis
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Many early television shows were adapted from earliers
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radio shows
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Formed as a military alliance for mutual defense; between the U.S., Canada, and Western European nations
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NATO
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Area that Hitler unified with; his home country
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Austria
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known as Bombingham; site of many civil rights demonstrations, including the Children's March from the 16th Street Baptist Church
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Birmingham
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The U.S. had prior warning in the attack on Pearl Harbor when
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a midget submarine was spotted, planes were spotted on radar (we just thought they were ours)
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became the leader of the Soviet Union when Joseph Stalin died
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Nikita Khrushchev
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Lightening war- all out attack; battle strategy developed by the Germans and unleashed on Poland to start WWII
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Blitzkreig
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Made it illegal for the U.S. to travel on ships, trade with, or loan money to..
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countries at war
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After the attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. West Coast was declared a military zone. Japanese- Americans were removed from the West Coast in case they would be loyal to the enemy if Japan invaded the U.S. mainland. They were moved to
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internment or relocation camps
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Nixon defended himself in a televised speech known as...during the 1952 presidential campaign
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Checkers speech (Checkers was a dog, the only illegal gift he had ever taken he said)
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TR had the Square Deal, FDR the New Deal, Truman the Fair Deal, Lyndon Johnson the Great Society. What was J.F. Kennedy's legislative agenda called?
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The New Frontier
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Martin Luther King, Jr. delivered his "I have a Dream" speech from the steps of the Lincoln memorial at....
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the March on Washington, D.C.- planned to drum up support for the passage of the Civil Rights Bill being debated before Congress
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After WWII, they wanted a permanently weakened Germany and to protect their western border
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the Soviet Union
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In 3/4ths of American homes in the 1950s
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Televisions
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NIckname of the first Selma to Montgomery march
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Bloody Sunday
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Labor unions promised this during WWII
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not to go on strike
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Nickname for segregation laws
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Jim Crow laws
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Governor tried to prevent nine students from enrolling at an all white high school here
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Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas (the students were the Little Rock Nine)
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Kennedy convinced Congress to invest more funds in
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defense and space exploration (his goal was to land a man on the moon by the end of the decade)
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symbolic barrier between East and West, communist and non-communist; W. Churchill coined the phrase
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Iron Curtain
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Victory in Europe, defeat of German forces
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VE Day
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Victory in Japan
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VJ Day
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Adolf Hitler blamed all of Germany's problems on what group of people?
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Jews
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Codename for A-bomb project in WWII
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Manhattan Project
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used as Codetalkers in the Pacific theater of WWII; they could transmit messages instantly in their own language, a language no one else in the world could speak
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Navajo Indians
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Eisenhower's policy of never backing down to the enemy and going to the edge of war with the Communists
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brinkmanship
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"Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, and segregation forever." What Alabama governor said these words?
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George Wallace
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Allies first military goal in 1942
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defeat of the Axis Powers in Europe
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group that investigated the Kennedy assassination and found Lee Oswald to be the lone gunman
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Warren Commission
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When Britain, France, and the U.S. merged their zones in Germany and Berlin together....
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the Soviets responded with a blockade on West Berlin (blocked all routes into and out of the city and cut off power and water supplies)
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2 causes of the rise of dictatorships in Europe after WWI
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worldwide economic depression and the peace treaty that ended WWI
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U.S. satellite launched Explorer I to the Soviet's launch of the first artificial satellite, ____________
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Sputnik I
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Wanted to unite all German speaking people into on empire; committed suicide before his country's surrender during WWII
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Adolph Hitler
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U.S. thought the best way to prevent nuclear war was to...
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have more and better bombs than the Soviets
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Dec. 7, 1941
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Japan bombed Pearl Harbor
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Truman's 2 options on ending the war with Japan
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1. land invasion like D-day
2. dropping atomic bombs developed as a part of the Manhattan Project (he obviously chose option 2) |
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The Soviets were able to hold off the German invasion at Stalingrad because..
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the Germans refused to retreat during the harsh, brutal winter and the Soviets, used to the climate, were able to regroup and push the Germans out of the Soviet Union altogether
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