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| Rain containing high amounts of chemical pollutants from the burning of fossil fuels |
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| An active effort to improve educational and employment opportunities for minority groups and women |
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| The state of having much wealth |
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| A chemical herbicide used to clear jungle growth in the Vietnam |
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| A system of transporting food and supplies by aircraft into an area otherwise impossible to reach |
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| Defense agreements among nation |
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| The granting of pardon to a large number of persons; protection of prosecution for an illegal act |
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| Person who believes that there should be no government |
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| Hostility toward or discrimination against Jews |
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Racial separation and economic and political discrimination against nonwhites, a policy formerly practiced in the republic of South Africa |
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| Accepting demands in order to avoid conflict |
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Settling a dispute by agreeing to accept the decision of an impartial outsider |
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| A temporary peace agreement to end fighting |
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| The competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to build more weapons in an effort to surpass the others military strength |
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| A system with machines and workers arranged so that each person performs an assigned task again and again as items pass before him or her |
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To absorb a group into the culture of a larger population |
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Government in which one person has unlimited power |
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