Cold War

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Mao Zedong clapping and Mao Zedong speaking at a microphone
The Founding of the People's Republic of China
fire at plant in Bhopal in background people lost in the fire
Remembering Bhopal: The World's Worst Industrial Disaster
Lydia Walker
Postwar Decolonization and its Discontents
Mao proclaiming establishment of PRC.
The Establishment of the People’s Republic of China and Its Impacts
anti-communists and nationalists place a Hungarian national flag atop a demolished statue of Josef Stalin
The 1956 Hungarian Revolution
resident Harry Truman, left, congratulates Gen. George Marshall (architect of the Marshall Plan) , Fair Use via AP
The Marshall Plan
Top back row: Toyama Mitsuru, Abraham Woodhull, Aldrich Ames, Francis Walsingham, Front Row is Adolf G. Tolkachev, Mata Hari, Klaus Fuchs, and Elizabeth Van Lew
History's Top Spies
West Berliners stand amid the rubble of WWII and watch U.S. Air Force transport planes land at Templehof Airport during the Berlin Airlift in 1948.
The Berlin Airlift
An MP looking north from South Korea in the Demilitarized Zone, 2008.
The War That Never Ended: The Legacy of the Korean War
The U.S.-Economic Cooperation Administration created numerous posters to promote the Marshall Plan in Europe. This one, depicting the flags of various Western European countries receiving Marshall Plan aid, was produced in 1950.
The Marshall Plan
Paratroopers of teh 2nd RPC firing a 106 mm SR recoilless gun at an Egyptian resistance point on an Egyptian resistance point in Port Said
The Suez Crisis (1956)
Astronaut Buzz Aldrin salutes United States Flag while standing on the moon
Fly Me to the Moon
U.S. General James Van Fleet and Greek War Minister Kanellopoulos walking between lines of soldiers on the island of Makronissos during the Greek Civil War
The Greek Civil War, 1946–1949
Students in Mexico protest the PRI in 1968 with a sign that reads "Mexico '68: The Year of Repression."
Counterinsurgency and Drugs in Cold War Thailand and Mexico (Prologued, Season 2, Episode 5)
Nancy Reagan speaking at a "Just Say No" Rally.
The “Modern” War on Drugs (Prologued, Season 2, Episode 1)
Soviet and US Flags
Cultural Diplomacy and the Global Cold War
A 1991 cartoon from Edmund S. Valtman.
The Soviet Collapse
Israeli troops during the battle for the Sinai
The Suez Crisis (1956)
President Carter shakes hands with General Torrijos of Panama after signing the Panama Canal Treaty
The Missing "Third" of the Third World
Khrushchev during his visit to the Agricultural Research Service Center in Maryland.
Khrushchev’s Great American Road Trip
Palais de Beaulieu
The Theological Third Way in Latin America
One of Havana's plazas without a church.
A Postcard From Havana, Cuba
Neil Armstrong stands by the Lunar Module "Eagle" during the first walk on the moon in 1969.
Fly Me to the Moon
IRA gunmen in Northern Ireland
From the Cold War to the War on Terror