The first blank is Harry Truman, who was President of the United States after FDR.
The second blank is the Soviets, since the Cold War was mainly characterised by the stalemate between the Communist superpower USSR and the democratic superpower US.
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Fallow land is the land left bare without growing any crop for a season. Fallowing ensures that the decayed vegetative matter helped to increase the plant nutrients in the soil. Also, it helps to increase the sub-soil moisture and improves the general structure of the soil.
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Westward expansion meant that the US acquired ever increasing amounts of land, and needed people, farmers, to settle there so it could maintained without a huge military presence. This led to massive immigration in the second half of the 19th century, as mostly Europeans came here seeking to finally have their own land.
It also added vast resources to the United States, both in terms of potential agricultural production and things like gold, silver and timber.
It stimulated the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad, and added new states to the country.
It further aggravated the divide between north and south, and accelerated the onset of the Civil War.
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