Western Civilization PicturePack Collections

 Each Western Civilization PicturePack Collection covers one of fifteen major periods in the history of Western Civilization.  Each Collection contains a thorough, in-depth series of visual lessons - each one a segment of history, told in beautiful large-size images and historical captions (articles). PicturePacks are inexpensive, and allow you to order just the historical content you need.  Created in html (web-based) format,  PicturePacks run in your own Windows web browser (Internet Explorer or Netscape Navigator), so the PicturePack "look and feel" is friendly and familiar, and there is no installation and minimal user instruction. PicturePacks allow independent study, but they are also resources, designed to allow you to use the rich, varied content to create presentations, handouts, student reports, and much more.  Simple, clear instructions are included. PicturePack Collections are delivered on CD.

CONTENTS Collection O: The New Global Civilization, 1945 to the Present   

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 CONTENTS
  

  Western Civilization PicturePack

Collection O:
The New Global Civilization,
1945 to the Present
  
All the PicturePacks listed below are
included in this PicturePack Collection.
All images full screen, with articles.
   

PicturePack WCO01: First Steps to a New World, 1945-1960 ● A view of the earth from space ● U.S. hydrogen bomb explosion at Bikini ● New home for a Bikini island family, 1946 ● French nuclear explosion at Mururoa Atoll, 1963 ● The Chernobyl power plant in 1990 ● Gundremmigen nuclear power plant, Germany ● The International Court of Justice in session ● The Dumbarton Oaks meeting, 1944 ● The UN Charter Conference in San Francisco ● United Nations buildings on the East River, NY ● The United Nations Security Council in session ● UN Secretary-General Hammarskjöld (left) ● Four secretaries-general of the United Nations ● UNICEF refugee children in Pakistan ● George Marshall, author of European recovery plan ● The Marshall Plan, a Dutch poster 1947-1951 ● French family receives Marshall plan tractor ● The plenary NATO conference, Paris, 1949 ● U.S. President Truman signs NATO treaty ● Antiwar students demonstrate at NATO meeting ● Italian peasants march for land, September 1946 ● Frankfurt's skyline shows postwar recovery ● The postwar skyline of London 
 

PicturePack WCO02: The Berlin Crisis; The Eastern Bloc Forms ● Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech, March 5, 1946 ● Khrushchev with Kádár in Hungary, 1960 ● Khrushchev and Bulganin at 1955 summit ● Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, 1964-1982 ● Josip Tito of Yugoslavia ● The Czech communist leader Klement Gottwald ● Berlin divided, 1948 ● The Berlin blockade, 1948-1949 ● One of first flights in the Berlin airlift, 1948 ● Berlin people watch a USAF C-54 in flight ● The Berlin airlift: fresh milk, 1948 ● The East Berlin uprising, 1953 ● A man climbs aboard a Soviet tank in East Berlin ● Khruschev and Kennedy, 1961 ● New construction on the Berlin Wall, 1965 ● Checkpoint Charlie, West Berlin, 1966 ● A sentry post along the Berlin Wall, 1982  
 

PicturePack WCO03: Post-World War II Leaders ● Wilhelm-Gedäctniskirche, Berlin WWII memorial ● The British royal family at Windsor Castle, 1946 ● Elizabeth II and Prince Philip ● Sir Anthony Eden (1895-1977) ● Maurice Harold Macmillan (1894-1986) ● Margaret Thatcher, prime minister 1979-1992 ● Sino-British declaration on Hong Kong ● British Prime Minister John Major ● Pierre Mendčs-France, Radical-Socialist ● Italian prime minister Gasperi and his wife ● West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, 1949 ● Gamal Nasser, president of Egypt 1956-1970 ● Dr. Mohammed Mossadegh, Iranian prime minister ● Anti-American graffiti in Tehran, 1955 ● Nelson Mandela and Frederick Willem de Klerk ● Pope Paul VI at Castel Gandolfo   
 

PicturePack WCO04: The Founding of Israel ● Tents of newly-arrived Jewish immigrants ● Arabs oppose the Balfour Declaration ● King David Hotel after 1946 bombing ● Jewish refugees arrive at Tel Aviv harbor, 1948 ● A British regiment leaving Palestine ● A Haganah training camp in Tel Aviv, May 1948 ● Ben-Gurion reads charter of independence, 1948 ● A map of Israel and neighboring countries ● A bombed Jewish village in Palestine, 1948 ● Palestinian refugees near Jerusalem, 1948 ● Israeli military policeman with Arab prisoners ● British tanks at end of the Suez crisis ● At the signing of the Camp David Accords ● Yasir Arafat, chairman of the PLO ● Yitzhak Rabin, Israeli prime minister    
 

PicturePack WCO05: Independence Movements & International Conflict After WWII ● The French return to Vietnam after WWII, 1945 ● A Vietnamese boy waves his country’s flag, 1946 ● Ho Chi Minh and French President Bidault, 1946 ● French flag marks Vietnam/China border, 1946 ● French paratroopers cross a river in Vietnam ● American and Vietnamese officers confer, 1961 ● U.S. troop deployment by helicopter in Vietnam ● French vs. Algerians, 1955 ● Algerian rebels, 1959 ● A soldier of the UN force in the Congo in 1960 ● Kwame Nkrumah, President of Ghana, 1960-1966 ● Julius Nyerere of Tanzania ● A group of British Royal Marines in Sarawak, 1964 ● Greek soldiers vs. guerrillas, 1947 ● Mao Tse-tung (Mao Zedong) in 1945 ● Chinese children read about Stalin, 1953 ● Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek (Jiang Jieshi) ● Chiang reviews troops on Formosa, 1952 ● UN troops on the outskirts of Seoul, Korea ● A map of Korea and adjacent nations ● Korean war: Canadian at first-aid station, 1951 ● The Australian Air Force in South Korea. ● British in Korean War have afternoon tea, 1951 ● Makarios III, the first president of Cyprus ● UN peace-keeping observers in Cyprus, 1971 ● Fighting on Cyprus ● Map of northeast Africa & Middle East, 1982 ● Syrian military forces in Lebanon in 1976 ● Refugees in a camp near Beirut ● Ruins of Beirut residential neighborhood, 1982 ● Political map of Iran, Iraq and neighbors ● An Afghan refugee in Pakistan, 1980 ● U.S. soldiers in the Gulf War ● Jiddah, Saudi Arabia's major Red Sea port ● Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia ● A graphic map of world oil reserves ● A drilling rig in eastern Saudi Arabia ● An offshore oil rig in the Arabian Gulf ● The Iranian oil refinery at Abadan, Persian Gulf ● Supertankers loading at a Kuwait pier ● A May Day demonstration in Paris, 1980   
  

PicturePack WCO06: Wealth and Poverty in Asia ● The Tokyo skyline ● A wedding at the Meiji Shrine ● The Ginza in Tokyo ● An overflowing container dock at Shanghai ● A rural irrigation device in China ● Children and pigs on a Bangladesh street, 1973 ● High rise buildings in Seoul, Korea ● The Hyundai shipyards in Korea ● Elephants moving logs in the Mai Sai area ● Farming in Burma, 1983 ● Homeless persons in Bombay, 1975 ● The home of a wealthy family in Calcutta   
  

PicturePack WCO07: Postwar Culture; Science, Space, Transportation ● Robert Goddard with an early liquid-fueled rocket ● Man's first walk on the moon, 1969 ● The Russian Mir space station in orbit, 1995 ● Laurence Olivier, actor (1907-1989) ● Albert Camus (1913-1960) ● Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir ● Simone de Beauvoir ● The Beatles in performance ● Alfred Hitchcock sketches scenes ● A family watching television ● Paris couturiers present creations, 1949-1950 ● A H-bomb hairdo at the Coiffure and Fashions show ● A modern sculpture by Henry Moore ● A mural by Joán Miró in Barcelona ● A British Bristol Freighter cargo airplane, 1946 ● A DeHavilland Comet airliner, 1949 ● An Airbus turbojet airliner in flight, 1974 ● An El Al (Israel) Boeing 747 in flight ● The Anglo-French Concorde supersonic airliner ● The Volkswagen "Beetle," 1937 ● A Volkswagen Bus Type II Caravelle, 1987 ● The BMW Isetta, manufactured 1955-1962 ● The BMW 1500, 1962-1972 ● A BMW Series 3 sedan, 1990 ● The 1966 Jaguar Type E 2+2 ● A 1995 Jaguar XJ-6 Saloon ● A Mercedes-Benz 1994 C Klasse Sport Sedan  
 

PicturePack WCO08: From 1990 to the New Millennium ● Gorbachev with U.S. President Reagan, 1985 ● A map of the breakup of the Soviet Union ● Bill Clinton in Moscow, January 1994 ● Albert Schweitzer in French Equatorial Africa ● Dr. Jonas Salk, who developed the polio vaccine ● A woman injecting heroin ● Drug suspects questioned in Stockholm, 1970s ● Counseling a drug addict in Stockholm, 1970s ● A very early computer, 1946 ● UNIVAC I computer, 1951 ● An Intel computer chip on a circuit board ● A late 20th-century computer ● An automated Japanese factory ● A steel rolling-mill controlled by computers ● A political map of China and its neighbors ● A political map of Africa, 1991 ● A map of India's strategic position, 1991