Cold War (Global Focus) - Fall 2024 (HIST 27/127)

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Cold War (Global Focus) - Fall 2024 (HIST 27/127)

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Top Secret Report of Major Yuri Gagarin
Report rom Gagarin, the first person to orbit earth

Statement by the President regarding the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958
Statement by President Eisenhower on signing the National Aeronautics and Space Act

Photo of Buzz Aldrin standing on the moon
Photo of Buzz Aldrin standing on the moon on the Apollo 11 mission

GPS III Satellite
Image of GPS Satellite

President Kennedy expressing support for the space program.

A Viet Cong base camp being burned down
Mỹ Tho, Vietnam. A Viet Cong base camp being burned down. In the foreground is Private First Class Raymond Rumpa, St Paul, Minnesota, C Company, 3rd Battalion, 47th Infantry, 9th Infantry Division, with 45 pound 90 mm recoilless rifle.

Long khanh fallen
SP4 Ruediger Richter (Columbus, Georgia), 4th Bn., 503 Inf., 173 Abn Bde (Separate), lifts his battle weary eyes to the heavens, as if to ask why? SGT. Daniel E. Spencer (Bend, Oregon) stares down at their fallen comrade. The day's battle ended, they…

Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich
A journalist by trade, who now suffers from an immune deficiency developed while researching this book, presents personal accounts of what happened to the people of Belarus after the nuclear reactor accident in 1986, and the fear, anger, and…

Caricature of Leonid Brezhnev
Caricature of Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev wearing a dark suit and two medals. As a Communist party official and chairman of the Presidium, he dominated the government between 1964 and his death in 1982, implementing his beliefs that military and…

Chernobylreactor 1
The original sarcophagus at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant was a temporary, emergency structure built to contain radioactive materials after the 1986 disaster
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