12 Immigrants Who Made American Politics Great

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2 Madeleine Albright Is First Female US Secretary of State The Albright family fled to England Because they were Jewish they worried the invading Nazis would hurt them After the war the Albrights moved back to their home country They would not stay long however Communists took control of the government in 1948 The Albright family fled again this time to the United States Madeleine was 11 years old In the United States Madeleine Albright went to high school in Denver Colorado There she founded an international relations club She was very interested in how countries got along with each other In college Albright was active in politics and government In 1993 President Bill Clinton made Albright the US Ambassador to the United Nations The United Nations Madeleine Albright understood from a young age how a country’s actions affect people’s lives Her family lived in the present-day Czech Republic But they could not stay Germany invaded the country at the beginning of World War II in 1939 6