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Cold War (1945-1991)


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Introduction
1	The Cold War (ca. 1945-1991)
Events
2	The Berlin Wall
3	Hungarian Uprising (1956)
4	Prague Spring (1968)
5	Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
Personalities
6	Fidel Castro (1926–2016)
7	Ernesto Che Guevara (1928–1967)
Photographers
8	Susan Meiselas: Nicaragua

Cold War (1945-1991)

Themes
War
Cold War (1945-1991)

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Cuba
Germany
Russia
UK
USA

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Leonard Freed (1929-2006), John Gossage (1946-), Josef Koudelka (1938-), Erich Lessing (1923-2018), Don McCullin (1935-), Susan Meiselas (1948-), Patrick Nagatani (1945-2017), John Phillips (1914-1996), Petr Strnad (1964-)

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Introduction
1	The Cold War (ca. 1945-1991)
Events
2	The Berlin Wall
3	Hungarian Uprising (1956)
4	Prague Spring (1968)
5	Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
Personalities
6	Fidel Castro (1926–2016)
7	Ernesto Che Guevara (1928–1967)
Photographers
8	Susan Meiselas: Nicaragua

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