Past president - Future president

The President of the United States of America is one of the most significant positions a man could have. The title itself carries a lot of importance and people would think how a man can be "king of the world" when he gets inaugurated, but the truth is that the title carries a lot of burden. In my opinion, the perfect example of that is President Kennedy's presidential term.

Young Bill Clinton meets JFK.

He was in office at the height of the Cold War and it is widely believed that his expertise and skills as a president greatly helped to avoid a possible third world war and a nuclear catastrophe. His office term also marked a general prosperity in the US, the moon landing, human rights improvements and several other things, but his presidency ended as a tragedy.

Disneyland Opening

The worlds most famous theme park - Disneyland. Everyone knows of Disney cartoons and it's characters. The creator, Walt Disney used to visit and frequent a lot of theme and amusement parks with his family, after which he got the idea and made a concept to create Disneyland, a theme park dedicated to the Disney universe.

The park was first opened in the 1950s, but was renovated, expanded and reopened several times since then. Such an example we can see on the posted picture. It is the most visited theme park in the entire world, located in California, USA.

Old Hearing Aid

The title is a joke, I know it's not a hearing aid, but I think it is some sort of a device used to register faint distant sounds and signals. Even though, the build doesn't seem like it's able to have a very long reach.

Researcher trying to pick up distant sounds and signals.

I really don't have any information on this contraption, if you happen to know anything more about it, feel free to post it in the comments section and I'll edit the article accordingly.

Update: This seems to be equipment used to listen to distant sounds of incoming aircraft before the radar was made. 

Nazi Rally

Adolf Hitler had a dramatic and lengthy rise to power filled with different events, after his WW1 political involvement up to the failed beer hall putsch, night of the long knives and beyond. When the Nazi party established themselves, they had to work more on their propaganda and one of the key elements of it were the Nuremberg Rallies. The key goal these meet ups had was to strengthen the Nazi Party image and the cult of personality for Adolf Hitler who was always presented as the savior of the German people.

Members of the NSDAP saluting at their meeting.

The Nazi meet-up on the picture is either from Nuremberg or just any other larger party meeting. The Nuremberg Rally was used for the main propaganda purpose of the party ever since 1923 up to 1939 which was never held because of the German offensive on Poland. Nuremberg was chosen as the rally point / location because it was in the center of Germany and it was well equipped for such large propaganda events.

Vietnam Battlefield

The most famous open military conflict during the Cold War. It started off and had its roots as the fight of the Vietnamese people against the French colonial interests, but was really a fight between communists and anti-communists. The conflict lasted almost 20 years and had taken a great toll, both on the military, civilian population and the relationships between different countries which were already strained in that era.

US Soldiers held up on a hill with supplies observing a distant battlefield and destruction.

The main characteristic, in my opinion, of the Vietnam war was the presence of cameras and war journalists. Such high presence of witnesses and press was eye opening to the public which eventually lead to protests and pressure build up to end the war and cease hostile activities. The Vietnam war and cult movies related to it (such as "Apocalypse Now" or "The Deer Hunter") had a lengthy and determined effect on the general public world wide, and that is that war is a very dreadful, bad, painful and miserable experience.

Shipyard

It is regarded that the start of the industrial revolution was the invention of the steam machine / engine, by James Watt, the Scottish engineer. The invention of the steam engine slowly but surely enabled a steady switch from hand made manufacturing of products up to heavy industrialization, such as the shipyard on this picture, dating from the 19th or beginning of the 20th century.

Original and color remake photo of a shipyard.

Building of such huge ships enabled mass transportation of people, raw materials, mail, products and all sorts of goods from all around the world. The only downside was the lengthy voyage these ships had to take, which was over time corrected by building faster ships and eventually transport airplanes. Probably one of the most famous ships were the Titanic and Queen Marry.

Tiananmen Square Riots

In 1989 the protests for changes against the communist government took their turn in China, because communism was rapidly losing it's grounds in Eastern Europe, former USSR and Yugoslavia. Protests ended differently everywhere. The collapse of the Soviet Union ushered the creation, or more likely the re-creation, of new-old countries from the old Soviet block and the decomposition of Eastern Germany.

Protestors fleeing from incoming tanks.

The anti communist protests took a different turn in China. There were protests before, in the late 80's demanding reform but they didn't last too long. The ones from 1989 were far more intense and last longing than the ones before, which demanded an intense retribution. They were brutally crushed by military intervention. Perhaps one of the most famous photos or media coverages was the infamous "tank man". On the picture we can see fleeing students from incoming tanks.

US Vietnam Soldier Camping

The Vietnam conflict lasted for almost 20 years resulting in a high number of casualties both from the civilian populations and military servicemen from all sides. The war was spread out on the territories of modern day Vietnam, Cambodia Laos.

US soldier camping in a room, possible artistic photo.

The death toll for the US army was around 60.000 soldiers. The unconventional warfare of the south eastern Asian jungles was extreme. Mud, rain, monsoons and other elements played a very difficult factor against the US troops. At the same time, the local Vietnamese were very well adapted, using a range of booby traps and a high number of underground tunnels.