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- Collection: Cold War - Fall 2023
A Korean Youth Learns a Baseball Lesson, 1951The original caption for this photograph reads: A Korean youth, Kim Pak Soon, is taught one of the fundamental lessons of baseball: "Get your glove…
1st Marine Division at Chosin Reservoir, 1950Exhausted Leathernecks of the 1st Marine Division stop for a brief rest during the bitter fighting at the Chosin Reservoir in Korea in December 1950.
A 1957 American political cartoon titled “Another Race We Can Lose.”This political cartoon from a St. Louis newspaper sums up America’s despair over the successful Soviet launch of Sputnik, the first satellite to orbit…
A model of the Soviet N-1 rocket, designed for a moon landing mission, ca. 1970.The Soviets intended to use this rocket and capsule to send humans to the moon. The program lacked funding and, after four failed attempts, the…
Military Demarcation Line and the Northern and Southern Borders of Demilitarized Zone, KoreaThese maps show the boundaries of the Demilitarized Zone following the Armistice Agreement at the end of the Korean War.
The middle line (labelled…
Proposed Orders and Statement on Dismissal of General MacArthurFormerly classified "Top Secret," this document is President Harry Truman's order relieving General Douglas MacArthur of his Korean War commands due…
One Step from Nuclear WarThe Executive Committee of the National Security Council (ExComm), meeting in the White House Cabinet Room, sorted through intelligence and advised…
Khrushchev on Cuban Crisis 1962Speech by Soviet leader Khrushchev in December 1962 covering the causes and consequences of the Cuban Crisis. (Catalogue ref: FO 371/171934)
A 1961 American political cartoon published after cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space.On April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space when he completed a 108-minute orbital flight. The Soviets used this…
A 1961 model of Explorer I, the first American satellite to orbit the earth.Explorer I was launched on January 31, 1958, four months after the Soviet Union launched the Sputnik satellite.