1950 | A Visual Guide to the Cold War

PEACEFUL COEXISTENCE

BETTER RELATIONS THROUGH TRADE

FACE OF MILITARISM

SAFEGUARDING PEACE

US UNIVERSITIES

WORLD DOMINATION

CUCKOO MILITARY

AMERICAN FREEDOM

5 MILLION UNEMPLOYED

HATCHING A NEW NAZI

ON NUCLEAR WEAPONS

DEFEND THE MOTHERLAND

SOVIET CONSTRUCTION

MEMORIAL TO THE VICTOR

IN THE NAME OF PEACE

UN-AMERICAN TROUT

ATTACKS ON THE ARMY

MCCARTHYISM 1954

CHINESE CASUALTIES

MEASURED BY THE FOOT

PRISONER EXCHANGE

SOVIET DUPLICITY

ENRAGED DEMOCRACIES

APPEASING COMMUNISTS

EXECUTIONER IN KOREA

MILITARIZATION OF EUROPE

EUROPEAN ANTI-AMERICANISM

CHINA AND TAIWAN

BASEBALL MANAGER

SOVIET AGGRESSION

RESTRICTING FREEDOMS

FREE ELECTIONS IN THE US?

Marilyn Monroe singing in front of troops in Korea.

War weary Korean girl with brother on her back in front of a tank. 1951.

WAR WEARY KOREAN GIRL

In this undated photo from North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency, American combatants captured during the Korean War march down a street.

CAPTURED AMERICAN TROOPS

Singer Paul Robeson addresses a “Hands Off Korea” rally from a sound truck at the corner of 126th Street and Lenox Avenue in the Harlem section of New York, on July 3, 1950.

“HANDS OFF KOREA” RALLY

A U.S. Marine tank follows a line of prisoners of war down a village street. September 26, 1950.

U.S. TANK AND PRISONERS OF WAR

Captured by American forces in the Taegu area of South Korea on October 8, 1950, these North Korean girls are marched to a train which will take them to a prisoner of war camp at Pusan.

CAPTURED NORTH KOREAN GIRLS

A mobile army surgical hospital somewhere in Korea on October 26, 1951. The patient in the left foreground is receiving blood plasma, while behind him two operations are taking place, one at left and one in the center. Photographer Healy took the photos as he found them. Everyone was so busy that no one had time to pose.

MOBILE ARMY SURGICAL HOSPITAL

A command post somewhere in South Korea on July 12, 1950, as American soldiers keep on the alert with their straw covered camouflaged weapons carrier.

CAMOUFLAGED WEAPONS CARRIER

Soldiers digging into bunkers atop Old Baldy in Korea in 1952.

SOLDIERS DIGGING

South Korean WACs trained and ready to join their men in the battle against Chinese invaders, display military precision as they parade through Pusan, main United Nations’ fort city in Korea, on September 12, 1950.

SOUTH KOREAN WACS TRAINING

All Sgt. Bernard Young lacks is a private secretary to complete his “office” setting, on May 3, 1951. The Detroit, Michigan, military policeman takes his ease in almost deserted Chunchon, South Korea after the bulk of UN forces had withdrawn southward. Only an infantry rear guard unit remained between him and the advancing Communists.

SGT. BERNARD YOUNG IN HIS “OFFICE”

Paratroopers drop from U.S. Air Force C-119 transport planes during an operation over an undisclosed location in Korea, in October of 1950.

Three happy fliers of the 18th Fighter Bomber wing let the world know how they feels as they returned from a combat mission over North Korea to learn of the armistice signing on July 29, 1953. Left to right are: 2nd Lt. John Putty, Dallas, Tex.; 1st Lt. James A. Boucek, Ottawa, Kansas,: and 1st Lt. Richard D. Westcott, Houston, Tex., waving from the back seat of the jeep.

South Korean women weep as they listen to President Syngman Rhee speak at a memorial service in Seoul, October 17, 1953. The service honored the 33,964 South Koreans killed in the last year of the war.

MEMORIAL SERVICE IN SEOUL, 1953

PFC Donald Jones of Topeka, Kansas, pauses to read a sign just posted on the south limit of the demilitarized zone in Korea on July 30, 1953.

DEMILITARIZED ZONE

THE SECRET MISSION

SPRING ON ZARECHNAYA STREET

THE ROCKY AND BULLWINKLE SHOW

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