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The Cold War Begins
American and Russian soldiers meet across a bridge on the Elbe River in Germany near the end of
World War II.
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The Cold War Begins
President Truman speaks at the conference in San Francisco where the United
Nations Charter was drafted.
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The Cold War Begins
This Soviet poster from 1945 promotes the role of industrial and
agricultural workers in building a socialist society.
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The Cold War Begins
In this 1948 photograph, British military police put up a sign to mark the boundary between the
British and Russian sections of the city of Berlin.
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China’s Communist Path
This Chinese poster from 1949 celebrates the victory of the Communists,
led by Mao Zedong, over the Nationalists in China.
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China’s Communist Path
After leading the Communists to victory in China, Mao Zedong placed power
in the hands of the Communist Party and began to restructure the economy
based on Marxist principles.
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China’s Communist Path
During the Great Leap Forward, many Chinese people were forced to build backyard furnaces to
produce steel for their communities.
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China’s Communist Path
Here Red Guards parade their victims, who are wearing hats proclaiming their
supposed crimes, on the streets of Beijing.
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Cold War Conflicts
This picture, taken in October 1950, shows U.S. troops transporting North Korean prisoners of war.
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Cold War Conflicts
In September 1965, U.S. soldiers on the ground were supported by helicopters during the Iron
Triangle assault.
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Cold War Conflicts
After Fidel Castro overthrew the Cuban government in 1959, he toured the United States.
Here Castro takes questions from the press upon his arrival in Washington, D.C., in April 1959.
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Cold War Conflicts
The prime minister of Congo, Patrice Lumumba, was an ardent nationalist. When
the United Nations rejected his plea for foreign aid, he turned to the USSR for help.
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The End of the Cold War
In this image from 1961, a family tries to visit with relatives who they have become
separated by the Berlin Wall.
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The End of the Cold War
U.S. President Richard Nixon embraced a policy of détente to ease Cold War tensions with the Soviet
Union and China. In 1972, he made a historic visit to China in the hopes of easing tensions in East
Asia.
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The End of the Cold War
The Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev (right) poses with Vice President George H.W. Bush and
President Ronald Reagan in New York during his 1988 visit to the United States.
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The End of the Cold War
On November 9, 1989, the government of East Germany opened the Berlin Wall so people could
travel freely to the West. This photo shows young people climbing on top of the wall in celebration.
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