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World History
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9th Grade
12/14/2012
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detente
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the relaxation of political tensions during the cold War
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Deficit
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The gap between what a government spends and what it takes in through taxes and other sources
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Leonid Brezhnev
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Controlled Soviet Union for almost 20 years
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Charles de Gaulle
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Leader who restored France to poewer after WWII
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Joseph McCarthy
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Senator who lead a campaign against communists in the United States
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Margaret Thatcher
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Prime minister who trimmed Britain's welfare state
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