EVB2946781: Communist troops in military exercise in Laos, 1959. Laotian politics were unsettled from independence in 1953 to 1975. The strife was often a proxy war between Cold War opponents., Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2946782: Lord Louis Mountbatten handing over power to Mahomed Ali Jinnah on Aug. 14, 1947. On the next day Jinnah was sworn in as Pakistan’s first governor-general and President of Pakistan's constituent assembly. / Bridgeman Images

EVB2946792: Reporters running through the White House after the announcement of Japan's surrender, ending WW2. August 14, 1945. / Bridgeman Images

EVB2946797: Jewish girls receive military training from the militant Jewish group, Irgun, June 27, 1948. Irgun, was a Zionist paramilitary group that operated in Palestine between 1931 and 1948. / Bridgeman Images

EVB2946799: A grief stricken mother lying on the grave of her Haganah soldier son. Near Tel Aviv, July 31, 1948. Over 6,000 Israelis died in Israel's War of Independence (1947-1949), accounting for 1% of the population. / Bridgeman Images

EVB2946803: Reporters running through the White House after the announcement of Japan's surrender, ending WW2. August 14, 1945. / Bridgeman Images

EVB2946809: Bodies of dead Egyptian soldiers lying in the Sinai desert following Israeli advance. Photographers take pictures of the casualties of the Suez Crisis, in which Britain, France and Israel attacked Egypt that followed dispute over the Suez Canal. Oct. 29-Nov. 7, 1956. / Bridgeman Images

EVB2946812: Crowd control at the White House fence on V-J Day, August 14, 1945. Soldiers link arms to hold back people celebrating the end of World War 2. / Bridgeman Images

EVB2946815: Royalists political posters plastered on the outside wall of a tavern. Athens, Greece, March 31, 1946. / Bridgeman Images

EVB2946819: Sacks of flour, the first relief supplies from the United States, being unloaded in the port of Piraeus. American and Greek flags are displayed. 1947. The U.S. economic aid to the Rightist-Royalist side of the Greek Civil War became the model for the Marshall Plan. / Bridgeman Images

EVB2946820: American-made truck lowered from a freighter at Piraeus as part of a relief effort to Greece. U.S. aid supported the Rightist-Royalist government which was fighting Communist insurgency in the Greek Civil War. / Bridgeman Images

EVB2946822: Greek soldiers charging against strongholds on Nieska Hill during the Greek Civil War. c. 1948-49. / Bridgeman Images

EVB2946832: Charles De Gaulle speaking, c. 1947-50. From April 1947 to May 1953, De Gaulle attempted to achieve national leadership through his French People's Party. He finally became Prime Minister in June 1958. / Bridgeman Images

EVB2946848: Communist Party evening class at a Moscow factory. The meeting room has a bust of Lenin. / Bridgeman Images

EVB2946850: Poster contrasting child poverty with children cared for and educated by the Soviet State, 1950 (poster) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2946852: Locomotive hauling pig iron at the blast-furnace of the Stalin Metallurgical Works. Kuznetsk, Russia, 1955. / Bridgeman Images

EVB2946859: President Harry Truman, center, presenting chemist Dr. James Conant with the Medal of Merit and Bronze Oak Leaf Cluster. Dr. Vannevar Bush stands at left. Conant and Bush played critical leadership roles in the Manhattan Project which developed the Atomic Bomb in World War 2. / Bridgeman Images

EVB2946861: President Harry Truman and Secret Service men on a walk near the White House in 1946. / Bridgeman Images

EVB2946867: President Harry Truman confers with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in the Oval Office. Churchill's Conservative Party won the general election of 1951, and he served until 1955. / Bridgeman Images

EVB2946876: Rose Conway, secretary to President Harry Truman, at her desk in the White House. Feb. 11, 1947. / Bridgeman Images

EVB2946885: President Harry Truman during his whistle stop campaign in 1948. / Bridgeman Images

EVB2946889: Inauguration of Harry Truman, Jan. 20, 1949. At left is the inaugural stand on the east entrance to the Capitol. On right is the press stand for first televised U.S. presidential inauguration. / Bridgeman Images

EVB2946890: View of the inauguration of President Harry Truman showing the President speaking at the podium. Jan. 20, 1949. / Bridgeman Images

EVB2946892: President Harry Truman being sworn into office for his second term. Jan. 20, 1949. / Bridgeman Images

EVB2946893: Senator Harry Truman in 1934 or 1935. The Wheeler-Truman Transportation Act of 1940, was the Missouri Senator's only legislative achievement in his first term., Harris & Ewing (1905-45) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2946894: Procession of limousines as President Harry Truman rides in the Inaugural parade. The members of Battery D, President Truman's World War I artillery battery, walk beside his car on Pennsylvania Avenue. Jan. 20, 1949., Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2946905: Dean Acheson, Sec. of State, signs the North Atlantic Treaty establishing the NATO alliance. President Harry Truman and Vice President Alben Barkley witness. April 4, 1949. / Bridgeman Images

EVB2946907: President Harry Truman signs the Atlantic Pact on July 27, 1949 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2946909: President Truman was presented a pipe said to have once been smoked by Sitting Bull, 1946 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2948412: SS Patrick Henry was the first Liberty Ship launched on Sept. 27, 1941. During World War 2 she made 12 voyages to ports including Murmansk, Trinidad, Cape Town, Naples, and Dakar. Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyard in Baltimore, Maryland / Bridgeman Images

EVB2948430: Mildred Gillars, a.k.a. Axis Sally, in custody at U.S. Counter Intelligence HQ, Berlin, 1946. During World War 2, she made English Language propaganda broadcasts for the German State Radio. She was tried for treason in the US and spent 10 years in prison / Bridgeman Images

EVB2948432: Drill Instructor looks over new arrivals to Marine Corps Women’s Reserve Officer’s Candidate School. c.1945 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2948434: Representatives of the armed forces picking 'Miss Armed Forces' in 1951. Eight beauty contestants are evaluated by four uniformed women, one from each branches of armed forces / Bridgeman Images

EVB2948449: Thermonuclear bomb in the U.S. Arsenal in 2004. The Mk/B53 was a high-yield bunker buster thermonuclear weapon developed in the 1960s, by the United States during the Cold War. Deployed on Strategic Air Command bombers, the B53, had a yield of 9 megatons. The last B53 was disassembled on 25 October 2011 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2948451: U.S. soldiers train in anti-guerilla tactics in the Vietnam jungle, April 17, 1961. Photo by Robert Pepper Martin / Bridgeman Images

EVB2948464: American family dining at the table in their Trailer Camper. June 4, 1937. In the 1930s, in spite of the Great Depression, Travel Trailers costing as much as , were popular for recreational tourism / Bridgeman Images