Cold War Photo Gallery

Man on moon VS man in space
During the arms race, to show their country was better, both countries tried to improve their technology. By improving the technology of their country people will think that either way or ruling, capitalism or communism, is better and thus become a country ruled by that way of thinking. One of the main achievements was being able to send human beings into space. On April 12, 1961, Russia was able to send Yuri Gagarin of Russia into space, given the title of first man in space. The United States was in return put Neil Armstrong on the moon on July 21, 1969. I like this photo because I would also like to go to space and these two men helped open the door for human beings to go to outer space.
Images from:
http://www.worth1000.com/entries/145500/145757LQsp_w.jpg
http://www.spaceistheplace.ca/gagarin1.jpg

Burning Monk
This is one of the most famous images of the Vietnam War. President Diem of South Vietnam was a corrupted leader. He was a strict Christian and opposed of all the other religions. Among the religions that he hated was Buddhism. He mistreated Buddhist people so badly that monks chose to burn themselves to death over having to live under the rule of Diem. Yet Diem did nothing to improve his way of ruling in order to stop the monks from burning themselves. I chose this picture because I want everyone to know how cruel and disgusting a ruler Diem was.
Image from:

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/learning_history/vietnam/photo1_sm.jpg

Cuban Missile Crisis
Cuba had always been a target of the United States because Cuba was a communist country that lied only a few kilometers away from the states. Cuba had asked for aid from Russia, and this is a photo of the set up of a launch site with missiles that came from Russia. On October 14, U-2 reconnaissance of United States took a series of photos like the ones shown above and alarmed the US forces to aim their arms on Cuba. Images like this could have been the trigger to the beginning of a nuclear war. I chose this photo because I admire the advanced technology of spying and secret services and how they can get precise information without being detected.
Image from:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/spiesfly/images/phot_1962_cmissilecrisis.jpg

Agent Orange
As a result of the well trained fighters of Vietnam the United States had to use their advanced technology to get rid of obstacles that laid in their way, such as the trees, and one of the technologies that were used was “Agent Orange”. However, the US did not fully understand the effects of the toxic that they were spraying over Vietnam. Both living Vietnamese and American soldiers and babies to be given birth by these people were affected by this toxic. The picture above is a picture of a baby bore by parents who were affected by Agent Orange. I chose this picture because I am discouraged by the actions of the United States. They chose to use things that they did not fully understand about, including the atomic bombs dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
Image from:
http://www.amber-online.com/visuals/philip_jones_grnt_2.jpg

Berlin Wall
The Berlin Wall was a symbol of the Cold War. To keep massive numbers of East Berliners (under Russia’s communist control) from moving to West Berlin (under United States’ capitalist control), Russian leaders decided to start their construction of a wall around West Berlin on Sunday August 13, 1961. The wall made many people lose their jobs and separated family members and friends. When the Berlin Wall was broken in November 1989, people knew and felt that the Cold War was coming to an end. This photo is filled with happiness and it gives me a warm feeling to see this much people finally able to reunite after the long years of the Cold War.
Image from:
http://www.andreas.com/pixs/berlinwall.jpg

Duck and Cover
During the Cold War people were always in fear of the war becoming a missile war at any second of their daily lives. In school images like the one above was shown to students, and students were instructed to “duck” under the desks and “cover” themselves when they are informed that a missile will be attacking their area, thinking that such action would protect them from being hurt by the missiles. However such action is considered to be completely useless because the missile war that would have occurred during that time would bring about total destruction to the earth – MAD. I chose this photo because it is a simple, yet effective drawing. I like the idea of using a turtle shell to show that the turtle is ducking inside its shell.
Image from:
http://planetmiles.net/Images/duckandcover.gif