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In perhaps the mostfamous photographin American politicalhistory, President HarryTruman holds aloft anewspaper wronglyannouncing his defeatby Republican nomineeThomas Dewey inthe 1948 presidentialelection. Truman’scome-from-behindvictory surprised allpolitical expertsthat day.Meeting of British PrimeMinister Winston Churchill,President Roosevelt, andSoviet leader Josef Stalinat Yalta in February 1945.Disagreements over thefuture of Europe anticipatedthe division of the Europeancontinent that remained afixture of the Cold War.U.S. troops witness anuclear test in the Nevadadesert in 1951. The threat ofnuclear weapons remaineda constant and ominous factof life throughout theCold War era.U.S. infantry fire against North Korean forces invading South Korea in 1951,in a conflict that lasted three painful years.234