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Why did Congress approve the National Defense Education Act?

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An Initiative that allocated federal money for the education of U.S. Veterans. An act passed by congress to give federal dollars to support the improvement of science, math, and foreign language instruction, so that the U.S. could compete with the Soviet Union in scientific and technical fields.

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