The Cold War

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The Cold War 1956

Soviet-built tanks wheel into action in a smoke-filled Budapest street in Hungary's flaring revolution against communist satellite government, Oct. 27, 1956. Citizens stand close to building fronts to stay out of the line of fire. Many Hungarian Army units reportedly have gone over to the rebels in fighting against police and units of the Soviet Red Army. (AP Photo)

 

Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro, left, is embraced by Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev in the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 20, 1960. The two men are included in the rogues' gallery of unsavory world leaders who have visited New York for the U.N. General Assembly. (AP Photo/Marty Lederhandler)

 

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The Cold War 1961

Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev with U.S. President John F. Kennedy at the U.S. Embassy during their summit meeting in Vienna, 2nd June 1961. (Photo by Central Press/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

 

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The Cold War 1961

US President John F Kennedy shakes hands with Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev at the Vienna Summit, Austria, June 4, 1961. (Photo by Pictorial Parade/Archive Photos/Getty Images)

 

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The Cold War 1961

Former United States President John F. Kennedy (R) meets with Nikita Khrushchev, former chairman of the council of Ministers of the Soviet Union, at the U.S. Embassy residence in Vienna, Austria in this June 1961 handout image. (REUTERS/Evelyn Lincoln/The White House/John F. Kennedy Presidential Library)

 

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The Cold War 1962

U.S. President John F. Kennedy, right, confers with his brother Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy at the White House in Washington, D.C., on Oct. 1, 1962 during the buildup of military tensions between the U.S. and the Soviet Union that became Cuban missile crisis later that month.  (AP Photo)

 

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The Cold War 1962

Aerial spy photos of a medium range ballistic missile base with labels detailing various parts of the base during the Cuban Missile Crisis, San Cristobal, Cuba in October of 1962.  (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

 

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The Cold War 1962

The U.S. destroyer Barry pulls alongside the Russian freighter Anosov in the Atlantic Ocean, November 10, 1962, to inspect cargo as a U.S. patrol plane flies overhead. The Soviet ship presumably carries a cargo of missiles being withdrawn from Cuba. The interception took place about 780 miles northeast of Puerto Rico. (AP Photo)

 

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The Cold War 1962

Delegates raise their hands in a vote of 19-1 approving the United State' decision to take steps against Cuba, during a meeting of the Organization of American States, called by President Kennedy, to consider Cuba's threat to the security of the Western Hemisphere, New York, 1962. (Photo by PhotoQuest/Getty Images)

 

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The Cold War 1970

Soviet leader Leonid I. Brezhnev and fellow Politburo members, left to right, Nikolai V. Podgorny, Brezhnev, Alexei N. Kosygin (1904 - 1980), Mikhail A. Suslov watching the Bolshevik anniversary parade in Moscow as the snow falls on Lenin's tomb, 1970.  (Photo by Keystone/Getty Images)

 

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The Cold War 1968

Soviet Army soldiers sit on their tanks in front of the Czechoslovak Radio station building in central Prague during the first day of Soviet-led invasion to then Czechoslovakia on August 21, 1968.        (REUTERS/Libor Hajsky)

 

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The Cold War 1972

US President Nixon reaches to clink his glass with that of Dr. Henry Kissinger, Presidential Advisor, in Moscow May 26th after signing of a strategic-arms limitation agreement with Soviet leaders, June 6, 1972. Just behind the glasses are US State Secretary William Rogers (l) and Soviet Russia's Leonid Brezhnev, Communist Party General Secretary. Kissinger was responsible for many of the reparations and details of the summit

 

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The Cold War 1980

Soviet military vehicles rumbling through the streets of Kabul in January 1980. It is now over a month since Russia invaded Afghanistan. (AP Photo)

 

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The Cold War 1980

Russian soldiers sitting on a tank in the Hindu Kush mountains during the invasion of Afghanistan by the Russians, January 1980. They are on the road between Mazar-i-Sharif and Russia. (Photo by Romano Cagnoni/Getty Images)

 

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The Cold War 1987

Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev applauds during a treaty-signing ceremony with President Ronald Reagan in the White House East Room, Dec. 8, 1987.  Reagan and Gorbachev signed an historic treaty to eliminate intermediate-range missiles and together vowed to work toward a more ambitious arms control pact during their three days of meetings. Others are unidentified. (AP Photo/Bob Daugherty)

 

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The Cold War

Soviet Leader Mikhail Gorbachev and his wife, Raisa, are welcomed by East German Leader Erich Honecker (R) with a fraternal kiss in East Berlin after the Gorbachev's arrive to celebrate the 40th anniversary of East Berlin, October 6, 1989.  (Reuters)

 

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The Cold War

Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) walks past U.S. President Barack Obama (C) during a group photo at the G20 Summit in St. Petersburg September 6, 2013. At top left is British Prime Minister David Cameron.  (REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque)