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July 1945 - two month after the end of the war in Europe and the allied victory over the German Reich the three allied leaders have come to Germany to work out a piece treaty - these 16 days, where the fate of post-war Europe was decided, go down in…

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President Harry S. Truman, Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Josef Stalin meet at Potsdam (near Berlin). The meeting was originally called the "Berlin Conference," the name was later changed to the "Potsdam…

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This image shows an article published in a paper after the Dred Scot Decision in 1857. It is cropped where the newspaper title itself is not visible.

Japanese soldiers march down the streets of Shanghai, China after their Occupation victory and round up of 350 prisoners of war.

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Japanese Immigration and Japanese- American Internment in WWII

This is a example of an anti-Japanese American discrimination, the first coming from Boston, Massachusetts , and next from somewhere in the western U.S. Below that is shown the home of a Japanese American family that was vandalized with anti-Japanese…

The coroner's office provided the Federal Bureau of Investigation with Al Capone's fingerprints following his death.

Al Capone called over Chicago Cubs star Gabby Hartnett at a charity baseball game in 1931 asking for the catcher's autograph

Al Capone died on January 25th, 1947 of a cardiac arrest, along with minor complications of syphilis and pneumonia.

a propagranda poster from the US, published during the time of the cold war.

'The political hostility between the United States of America and the Soviet Union from 1945 to 1990 not only perpetuated enemy propaganda in both countries, but was also a power battle between both nations to sell their respective ideologies to the…

The bomb used on the Us at the end of the war

Rockets similar to this R-7 rocket on display in Moscow were used to launch early Russian satellites into orbit, including Sputnik.

In russia its states that "Comrade Lenin will clean up the earth

With hangar 3 in the background, a new USAAF Boeing B-17B Flying Fortress starts its engines before flying in McChord Fields dedication Army Air Corps air demonstration. Forty RAF aircrew from No. 90 Squadron were trained at McChord Field from…

Boeing B-17Es under construction. This is the first released wartime production photograph of Flying Fortress heavy bombers at one of the Boeing plants, at Seattle, Wash.

This postcard features a black and white photograph of the German armored cruiser Blucher, Known for being sunk at the Battle of Dogger Bank by the British during World War 1.

This postcard features a black and white photograph S.M.S. Hela, a late 19th century German light cruiser.

This postcard features a black and white photograph of the first German dreadnought-type battleship the SMS Nassau.

This postcard features the battleship USS Arizona at sea prior to its sinking at Pearl Harbor in 1941. The image is a 3.5 "x 5.5" black and white photograph.

This postcard features an oil painting of the revolutionary HMS Dreadought at sea. The image is a 3.5" x 5.5" color painting.

This postcard features the sailing ship USS Constitution at sea. The image is a 4" x 5" black and white photograph.

This postcard features the Imperial German battleship Kaiser at sea. The 1.5" x 3.5" black and white photo sits centered on a 3.5" x 5.5" postcad.