Maps and Slides for Week Three
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Soviet troops hoisting the flag over the Reichstag in a ruined Berlin (1945) |
Berlin as divided into zones (1946) |
Sign dividing zones at Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin |
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Poster in Berlin for the Marshall Plan |
1947 partition plan for Israel and Palestine |
Member states of NATO and the dates they joined |
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"Ivy Mike" shot (1952) - first thermonuclear detonation by US |
Mao Zedong in 1946 |
US General Douglas MacArthur and Japanese Emperor Hirohito |
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American soldiers break out of the Chosin Resivoir |
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Department of Energy list of historial atomic weapon test films.
To get an idea of what a simulated nuclear exchange might look like, take a look at this study on a hypothetical exchange with China.
For a wider view of what America could anticipate in a nuclear exchange with the Soviets during the Cold War, look at this Office of Technology Assesment report from 1979 at the Federation of American Scientists.
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