The atomic bomb that the United States set off against Japan in August 1945. Hundreds of thousands in Nagasaki and Hiroshima were isnstanty died or from the radiation of the bombing.
August 1949, President Truman signing the North Atlantic treaty, which marked the beginning of NATO.
On June 25, 1950, North Korean Communist forces invaded South Korea. In this picture U.S. Marines land at Inchon as the battle rages.
The Soviet Army marching during the May Day celebration in 1954.
Kennedy announces his orders for a naval blockade of Cuba until the Soviets removes the missiles on TV.
U.S. Army helicopters fire machine guns into the tree line to cover the South Vietnamese ground in an attack on a Veit Cong camp northwest of Saigon in March 1956.
Chinese leader Mao Zedong shaking hands with U.S. President Richard Nixon after their meeting in Beijing, February 22, 1972.