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World War II Military Activities

Images depict various military scenes from World War II, including training, historical interactions, and soldiers on the move in different environments.

The Yangtze River, Red Army soldiers building a dam, a factory and sewers being built as well as a Soviet monument and a war memorial are all shown, in China, in 1962."
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The Great Leap Forward of the People's Republic of China (PRC) was an economic and social campaign of the Communist Party of China (CPC), reflected in planning decisions from 1958 to 1961, which aimed to use China's vast population to rapidly transform the country from an agrarian economy into a modern communist society through the process of rapid industrialization, and collectivization. Mao Zedong led the campaign based on the Theory of Productive Forces, and intensified it after being informed of the impending disaster from grain shortages. Chief changes in the lives of rural Chinese included the introduction of a mandatory process of agricultural collectivization, which was introduced incrementally. Private farming was prohibited, and those engaged in it were labeled as counter revolutionaries and persecuted. Restrictions on rural people were enforced through public struggle sessions, and social pressure. The Great Leap ended in catastrophe, resulting in tens of millions of excess
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Instructor explaining the operation of a parachute to student pilots, Meacham Field, Fort Worth, Tex. January 1942.
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Anefo photo collection. military truck Queen Juliana, lady officers. undated
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Couples in love in Germany, Garde-Reiter-Regiment (1. Schweres Regiment), 1913, Meißen, Gardereiter Ernte
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12. Königlich Sächsisches Infanterie-Regiment Nr. 177, Couples in love in Germany, Baskets of Germany, 1913, Meißen, Infanterie Wäschermädel
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Israeli women soldiers, 70's
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Ernesto 'Che' Guevara (June 14, 1928 - October 9, 1967), commonly known as El Che or simply Che, was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, intellectual, guerrilla leader, diplomat and military theorist While living in Mexico City, Guevara met Raúl and Fidel Castro, joined their 26th of July Movement, and sailed to Cuba aboard the yacht, Granma, with the intention of overthrowing U.S.-backed Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. Guevara soon rose to prominence among the insurgents, was promoted to second-in-command, and played a pivotal role in the victorious two year guerrilla campaign that deposed the Batista regime. Following the Cuban Revolution, Guevara performed a number of key roles in the new government. These included reviewing the appeals and firing squads for those convicted as war criminals during the revolutionary tribunals, instituting agrarian reform as minister of industries, helping spearhead a successful nationwide literacy campaign, serving as both nation
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