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Image: A2092-03A

Event: Summit meeting

Location: Vladivostok, USSR

Description: President Ford (L) and Soviet General Secretary Leonid I. Brezhnev (R)

sign a joint communiqué following talks on the limitation of strategic offensive arms.

The document was signed in the conference hall of the Okeansky Sanatorium, Vladivostok, USSR.

Date: November 24, 1974

Credit: Courtesy Gerald R. Ford Library

Photographer: David Hume Kennerly
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http://www.pbs.org/newshour/indepth_coverage/military/proliferation/treaties.html

USSR Russian author charged with treason 14 February 1974

The Soviet authorities formally charge

Russian writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008)

with treason one day after expelling him from the country.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/14/newsid_2541000/2541129.stm

Time Covers - The 70S

TIME cover 02-25-1974 Soviet dissident writer Alexander Solzhenitsyn.

Date taken: February 25, 1974

Photographer: Chris Bennett

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/2276650.stm

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/04/books/04solzhenitsyn.html

http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/people/s/aleksandr_solzhenitsyn/index.html

Chile General Augusto Pinochet

ousts Salvador Allende in CIA-sponsored coup

and proceeds to establish a brutal dictatorship 11 September 1973

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/1222905.stm

Time Covers - The 70S

Time cover 09-24-1973 of deposed President of Chile Salvador Allende.

Date taken: September 24, 1973

Photographer: Carl Roodman

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/documentaries/features/chile.shtml

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/sep/10/chile.jonathanfranklin

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,,305870,00.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/1973/sep/12/chile.fromthearchive1

Poland enjoys relative economic prosperity based on foreign loans 1970s

Successive US presidents Nixon, Ford and Carter visit Poland.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/country_profiles/1054724.stm

Poland Food price riots in Gdansk 1970

The protests are suppressed, hundreds are killed.

Edward Gierek becomes party leader.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/country_profiles/1054724.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/country_profiles/1054724.stm

Chile Salvador Allende

becomes world's first democratically elected Marxist president

and embarks on an extensive programme of nationalisation and radical social reform 1970

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/1222905.stm

Time cover: 10-19-1970 of Salvador Allende, cover art by Bob Peak.

(Dupe filed with TC 191741E - #712347)

Date taken: August 18, 2003

Photographer: Bob Peak

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President Allende Of Chile - Santiago Chile

Photographer: Michael Mauney

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/1222905.stm

USA Man takes first steps on the Moon 21 July 1969

American Neil Armstrong becomes the first man to walk on the Moon

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/21/newsid_2635000/2635845.stm

USA First astronauts orbit Moon 24 December 1968

The Apollo 8 spacecraft takes its crew of three astronauts

safely into orbit around the Moon,

the first manned space mission to achieve the feat.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/24/newsid_4083000/4083587.stm

Czechoslovakia Prague

Soviet tanks crush Prague's nascent 'socialism with a human face' 21 August 1968

Prague

Lone car passing dozens of Russian tanks

during Russian invasion of Czechoslovakia during "Prague Spring."

Location: Prague, Czech Republic

Date taken: 1968

Photographer: Bill Ray

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/aug/17/1968theyearofrevolt.russia

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/country_profiles/1844842.stm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history/mwh/ir2/czechoslovakia1968rev1.shtml

USA Three astronauts die in Apollo 1 tragedy 27 June 1967

Three American astronauts die

after fire swept through the Apollo spacecraft

designed for a manned flight to the Moon during rehearsals at Cape Kennedy.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/january/27/newsid_3392000/3392419.stm

Stalin's daughter defects to the West 9 March 1967

The daughter of the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin

requests political asylum at the United States Embassy in India.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/9/newsid_2801000/2801709.stm

USA Millions watch space probe crash into Moon 24 March 1965

A ground-breaking 15-minute live broadcast shows ordinary Americans

what it feels like to be a space probe hurtling to destruction on the Moon.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/24/newsid_4063000/4063187.stm

West Germany John Kennedy's "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech West Berlin, 26 June 1963

Kennedy Visit To Germany

Photographer: John Dominis

[ Standing in car from L to R: John F. Kennedy and Konrad Adenauer - 1963 ]

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Konrad Adenauer 1876-1967

Adenauer was West Germany's first chancellor

and a key figure in rebuilding the country after World War Two.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/adenauer_konrad.shtml

Kennedy Visit To Germany

Photographer: John Dominis

[ Konrad Adenauer - 1963 ]

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USSR Soviets launch first woman into space 16 June 1963

A former textile worker from the Soviet Union becomes the first woman in space.

Lieutenant Valentina Tereshkova, 26,

is the fifth Russian cosmonaut to go into the Earth's orbit

when her spaceship Vostok VI is launched at 1230 Moscow time.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/16/newsid_2685000/2685283.stm

Vietnam War / Guerre du Vietnam

The United States and the Soviet Union exchange prisoners 1962

http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,12269,1144836,00.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/10/newsid_2731000/2731827.stm

USA 'Music of spheres' hails Venus fly-by 14 December 1962

The unmanned US spacecraft, Mariner 2,

takes the first-ever scan from space of the planet Venus

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/14/newsid_4061000/4061955.stm

United States / Cuba > Missile Crisis October 1962

George Whelan Anderson, Jr. 1906-1992

Time Covers - The 60S

TIME cover 11-02-1962 of US Navy Admiral George Anderson.

Date taken: November 02, 1962

Photographer: Boris Chaliapin

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http://www.archives.gov/research/alic/reference/military/cuban-missile-crisis.html

http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/cuba_mis_cri/

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/spiesfly/brugioni.html

http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/10/19/home/missile.html

http://www.nytimes.com/books/97/10/19/home/crisis-review.html

http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/1022.html

http://www.nytimes.com/1992/03/22/us/adm-george-w-anderson-85-was-in-charge-of-cuba-blockade.html

USA First US rocket lands on Moon 26 April 1962

The American Moon rocket Ranger IV lands on the far side of the moon

but fails to send back pictures due to a technical fault.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/26/newsid_2950000/2950011.stm

USA US spaceman orbits Earth 20 February 1962

The first American to orbit the Earth lands safely in the Atlantic Ocean.

Marine Lieutenant John Glenn, 40,

travelled about 81,000 miles (more than 130,000km)

as he circled the globe three times at more than 17,000 mph (27,000kph)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/20/newsid_2552000/2552161.stm

USSR Russia frees US spy plane pilot 10 February 1962

American spy plane pilot Francis Gary Powers

is freed from prison in the Soviet Union

in exchange for a Russian spy jailed in the US.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/10/newsid_2731000/2731827.stm

United States / Cuba

U.S. imposes full economic embargo February 7, 1962

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN1922589220080219

USA > Cuba > Bay of Pigs Invasion / Missile crisis 1961-1962

Castro directs troops in defeat of invasion attempt

by U.S.-backed Cuban exiles at Bay of Pigs April 19, 1961

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN1922589220080219

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4925262.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/17/newsid_3394000/3394067.stm

http://www.archives.gov/research/alic/reference/military/cuban-missile-crisis.html

http://www.foia.cia.gov/bay_of_pigs.asp

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/COLDbayofpigs.htm

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/COLDcubanmissile.htm

http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/diplomacy/forrel/cuba/cubamenu.htm

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/archives/colc.html

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1962-cuba-un1.html

http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/cold.war/episodes/10/

World condemns Russia's nuclear test 30 October 1961

Russia explodes the world's largest ever nuclear device

provoking widespread condemnation from around the world.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/30/newsid_3666000/3666785.stm

Berliners wake to divided city Berlin wall 13 August 1961

The border between East and West Berlin is closed.

Soldiers start to build the wall.

What starts as barbed wire and light fencing builds up over the years

into a complex series of wall, fortified fences,

gun positions and watchtowers heavily guarded and patrolled.

More than 200 people die in the years that followed trying to cross the wall.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/1484769.stm

Time Covers - The 60S

TIME cover 08-31-1962 The Berlin Wall.

Date taken: August 31, 1962

Photographer: Boris Artzybasheff

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Berlin Wall

Young girl gazing pensively through the pane of her apartment window

which grimly reflects the image of barbed wire fencing that tops the nearby Berlin wall.

Location: West Berlin, Germany

Date taken: December 1962

Photographer: Paul Schutzer

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Berlin Wall

Young boy & girl playing soccer next to the Berlin wall.

Location: West Berlin, Germany

Date taken: December 1962

Photographer: Paul Schutzer

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West Berlin citizens crowding against nascent Berlin Wall

while lone guared ignores them

on the other side of the barrier in the Russian controlled sector of the city.

Location: Berlin, Germany

Date taken: 1961

Photographer: Paul Schutzer

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/13/newsid_3054000/3054060.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/1484769.stm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/berlinwall/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/people/highlights/010815_berlinwall.shtml

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/oct/27/berlin-wall-short-history

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/berlinwall

Street barricade on street leading into the Soviet zone.

Location: West Berlin, Germany

Date taken: May 1952

Photographer: Carl Mydans

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USSR Russian cosmonaut spends day in space 6 August 1961

The USSR launches its second cosmonaut into space

just four months after Yuri Gagarin made his historic venture

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/6/newsid_2944000/2944638.stm

USA Kennedy pledges man on Moon 25 May 1961

President John F Kennedy calls for millions of dollars

to fund a space programme to get the first man on the Moon by 1970

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/25/newsid_4369000/4369187.stm

Shepard becomes first US astronaut 5 May 1961

Commander Alan Shepard is recovered from his space capsule

in the Atlantic after becoming the first American in space

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/5/newsid_2504000/2504317.stm

USSR Soviets win space race 12 April 1961

The Soviet Union beats the USA in the race to get the first man into space

At just after 0700BST,

Major Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin

is fired from the Baikonur launch pad in Kazakhstan, Soviet central Asia,

in the space craft Vostok (East).

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/april/12/newsid_2477000/2477715.stm

U.S. breaks diplomatic ties with Havana January 3, 1961

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN1922589220080219

UN Khrushchev anger erupts at UN 29 September 1960

The Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev

disrupts a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly

with several angry outbursts

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/29/newsid_3087000/3087171.stm

Moscow jails American U-2 spy pilot 19 August 1960

The United States pilot, Francis Gary Powers,

is sentenced to 10 years in prison by a Soviet military court

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/august/19/newsid_2962000/2962600.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/in_depth/world/2001/military_fact_files/support_u2s.stm

The U2 Incident

An American U-2 spy plane is shot down over the Soviet Union May 1, 1960

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/presidents/34_eisenhower/psources/ps_u2.html

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/spiesfly/brugioni.html

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4653988

http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0210.html

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/03/21/business/0321-PLANE_3.html

1959 American exhibition in Moscow

Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev US Vice-President Richard Nixon Kitchen debate 24 July 1959

Nixon/Khrushchev Kitchen Debate

Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev (2L) vehemently arguing w. VP Richard Nixon (2R) who is furiously objecting

as an excited interpreter (C) translates their firey words re US ideas on home construction

during "kitchen debate" at American Natl. Exhibit at Moscow Fair

Location: Russia

Date taken: July 25, 1959

Photographer: Howard Sochurek

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3G5I9h6CFaM

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=101430375

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/23/opinion/23thu4.html

Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev / Никита Сергеевич Хрущёв 1894-1971

Time Covers - The 60S

TIME cover 09-08-1961

Russian Premier Nikita Khrushchev by Carl Mydans; fireball by J. R. Eyerman.

Date taken: September 08, 1961

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/khrushchev_nikita.shtml

http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/people/k/nikita_s_khrushchev/index.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/greatspeeches/khrushchev/0,,2060103,00.html

Fidel Castro

at microphone, military parade

1964-01-02

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Deena Stryker Photographs, 1963-1964 and undated
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http://library.duke.edu/digitalcollections/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/fidel-castro

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/c/fidel_castro/index.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/castro_fidel.shtml

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/cuba

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/may/29/barackobama.cuba

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/feb/19/cuba

Che Guevara 1928-1967

Time Covers - The 60S

Time cover 08-08-1960 ill. of revolutionary Che Guevara.

Date taken: August 08, 1960

Photographer: Bernard Safran

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/che-guevara

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/guevara_che.shtml

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jul/22/che-guevara-daughter-aleida

USA McCarthyism Joseph R. McCarthy 1908-1957

Senate Investigation Sub-Committee - Sen. Mccarthy [ bottom left ],

Senate Office Bldg.

Date taken: 1953

Photographer: George Skadding

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/11/mccarthyism-us-second-world-war

http://topics.nytimes.com/topics/reference/timestopics/people/m/joseph_r_mccarthy/index.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/2/newsid_3205000/3205423.stm

John Foster Dulles 1888-1959

U.S. Secretary of State

under President Dwight D. Eisenhower from 1953 to 1959

John Foster Dulles

Date taken: April 04, 1950

Photographer: Alfred Eisenstaedt

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http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0225.html

http://www.ina.fr/video/AFE85008266/monsieur-herter-succede-a-foster-dulles-et-recoit-fidel-castro.fr.html

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/29/newsid_2514000/2514607.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/2/newsid_3760000/3760378.stm

USSR World glimpses far side of the Moon 26 October 1959

The Soviet Union has revealed the first pictures of the far side of the Moon.

The pictures were taken about three weeks ago from Lunik 3,

the Soviet satellite launched on 4 October,

and transmitted by radio to the Earth, 300,000 miles (483,000 km) away.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/26/newsid_4045000/4045913.stm

USSR Soviets launch rocket at the Moon 12 September 1959

A massive Russian rocket,

carrying 860lb (391kg) of scientific instruments,

is successfully launched at the Moon.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/september/12/newsid_3054000/3054080.stm

USA Monkeys survive space mission 28 May 1959

Two monkeys become the first living creatures to survive a space flight

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/28/newsid_3725000/3725961.stm

USA Monkey lost after space flight 13 December 1958

The search for a small bushy-tailed monkey fired into space

in the nose cone of a Jupiter rocket is called off.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/13/newsid_3240000/3240133.stm

USSR Russians launch dog into space 3 November 1957

The Soviet Union launches the first ever living creature into the cosmos

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/3/newsid_3191000/3191083.stm

USSR Sputnik satellite blasts into space 4 October 1957

A Russian satellite is launched into space

- the first man-made object ever to leave the Earth's atmosphere

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/4/newsid_2685000/2685115.stm

Hungary Soviet troops overrun Hungary 4 November 1956

Picket lines at Russian legation with signs and pictures

about Russian tyranny at Budapest re Hungarian Revolution.

Location: New York, NY, US

Date taken: November 1956

Photographer: Walter Sanders

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Russian tanks on the streets of Budapest.

Location: Budapest, Hungary

Date taken: November 1956

Photographer: Michael Rougier

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/november/4/newsid_2739000/2739039.stm

Fighting spreads in Hungary revolution 26 October 1956

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/26/newsid_3200000/3200703.stm

Hungarians rise up against Soviet rule 23 October 1956

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/october/23/newsid_3140000/3140400.stm

Truman rejects anti-Stalin talk 18 June 1956

The former President of the United States, Harry Truman,

shruggs off suggestions Moscow may be about to reject its Stalinist past

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/june/18/newsid_3048000/3048197.stm

Khrushchev lashes out at Stalin 25 February 1956

The Soviet leader, Nikita Khrushchev,

denounces Joseph Stalin as a brutal despot

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/february/25/newsid_2703000/2703581.stm

Poland More than 50 people killed in rioting in Poznan 1956

over demands for greater freedom.

Liberal Communist leader Wladislaw Gomulka takes over.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/country_profiles/1054724.stm

Communist states sign Warsaw Pact 14 May 1955

The Soviet Union and its Eastern Bloc allies

sign a security pact in the Polish capital, Warsaw, after a three-day conference

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/may/14/newsid_3771000/3771065.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/country_profiles/1054724.stm

US tests hydrogen bomb in Bikini 1 March 1954

The US produces the biggest ever man-made explosion so far

in the Pacific archipelago of Bikini, part of the Marshall Islands.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/1/newsid_2781000/2781419.stm

Germany Berlin Soviet blockade 24 June 1948 - 12 May 1949

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/may/12/berlin-blockade-60th-anniversary

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/gallery/2008/jun/26/germany.russia?picture=335291007

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/bomb/peopleevents/pandeAMEX49.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history/mwh/ir2/berlinblockaderev2.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/gcsebitesize/history/mwh/ir2/

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/special_report/1998/03/98/berlin/72088.stm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/archive/berlinwall/8231.shtml

Cold War

The Soviet Union and the United States

Berlin blockade 1948

U-2 weather planes on a spying mission over the Soviet Union 1960

The Bay of Pigs, Cuban missile crisis 1961-1962

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/coldwar/

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/special_report/1998/03/98/berlin/72088.stm

http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~hpcws/index2.htm

http://century.guardian.co.uk/1940-1949/Story/0,6051,105121,00.html

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/churchill/wc-coldwar.html

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/archives/intro.html

http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/archives/colc.html

http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/archives/x2jfk.html

http://century.guardian.co.uk/year/0,6050,128371,00.html

http://century.guardian.co.uk/1960-1969/Story/0,6051,105522,00.html

http://century.guardian.co.uk/1960-1969/Story/0,6051,105566,00.html

http://century.guardian.co.uk/1960-1969/Story/0,6051,105569,00.html

http://www.guardian.co.uk/fromthearchive/story/0,12269,1246268,00.html

http://wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?topic_id=1409&fuseaction=topics.home

http://www.archives.gov/research/cold-war/

Korean War 1950-1953

USSR Joseph Stalin 1879-1953

One of the most powerful and murderous dictators in history,

Stalin was the supreme ruler of the Soviet Union for a quarter of a century.

His regime of terror caused the death and suffering of tens of millions,

but he also oversaw the war machine that played a key role in the defeat of Nazism.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/stalin_joseph.shtml

Eastern Europe after the second world war

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/11/second-world-war-eastern-europe

Poland Communist rule 1947

Poland becomes a Communist People's Republic

after Soviet-run elections, under the Stalinist leadership of Boleslaw Bierut.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/country_profiles/1054724.stm

The Sinews of Peace / Iron Curtain Speech

by Winston S. Churchill, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

at the Westminster College, Fulton, Missouri, USA 5 March 1946

http://www.nato.int/cps/en/SID-C78F8A8F-3DB25E3F/natolive/news_16942.htm

http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/worldwars/wwtwo/churchill_defender_01.shtml

Germany Potsdam Conference 17 July - 2 August 1945

http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/timeline/factfiles/nonflash/a1144829.shtml

Yalta conference 11 February 1945

Dividing Germany after the second world war

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/sep/10/second-world-war-germany-yalta

http://www.bbc.co.uk/ww2peopleswar/timeline/factfiles/nonflash/a1144865.shtml

The National Security Archive / The George Washington University > The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/cuba_mis_cri/index.htm
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/nsa/cuba_mis_cri/photos.htm

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