President Dwight D Eisenhower meets United States diplomats at the White House. The President along with Secretary of State John Dulles talk to the newly confirmed Ambassador to the Soviet Union, Charles” Chip” E. Bohlen. Cameraman taking a video. Ambassador Charles Bohlen and President Eisenhower shakes hands before Ambassador Bohlen departs the White House. President Eisenhower meets the first female Ambassador to Italy, Clare Boothe Luce. Ambassador Luce departs.
Soviet military forces in massed formations at Red Square, in Moscow, Russia. Joseph Stalin stands on balcony above. Scenes of rebellion in Europe and Asia. A map of Korea. June 25, 1950, as Korean War war broke out between North and South Korea. Buildings burning. Refugees fleeing. View of United Nations building on East River in New York City, where American ambassador Warren Austin is speaking. View of the Capitol in Washington, DC. President Truman, speaking, committed U.S. forces to action. U.S. Reservists are recalled to active duty to fight in Korea. Some are seen getting off a bus at a military base reception center. Recalled reservists with full field gear, starting their journey overseas, and later seen in Korea. U.S. tanks moving over the road manned by soldiers with World War Two experience. Numerous scenes of heavy artillery firing, mostly at night. U.S. regular Army, National Guard, and Army reserve soldiers engaged in fire fights in Korean War using tanks, artillery, mortars, and rifles. Soldiers administer first air and assist wounded comrades. American troops slogging through rain and snow in Korea. Soldiers eating from mess kits, and reading the Stars and Stripes newspaper, during a lull in combat. North Korean officers arriving, in snow, for armistice talks. Following the truce, American soldiers are seen packed up and heading home from Korea.
May Day Parade in Red Square of Moscow. Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin, Soviet politician Georgi Malenkov, Soviet Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD) Lavrentiy Beria, President of Soviet Union Nikolai Shvernik, Marshal Semen Budenny, and Lieutenant-General Dimitar Nikolov Popov review the May Day Parade. Signs and banners held by a crowd. A large crowd marching.
May Day Parade in Moscow. Officer speaks to assembled troops. Russian troops and sailors march on streets. Tanks, armored vehicles and artillery move past. Huge crowd gathered to watch the parade. Officials and dignitaries watch from review stand. People waive. Premier Nikita Khrushchev waives with his hat to the crowd.
The funeral ceremony of General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union Joseph Stalin in Moscow, Soviet Union. Medals placed near the coffin of Joseph Stalin. A large crowd of civilians gathered to view body of Stalin. Women weep. Men carry wreaths. Civilians lined up outside Lenin's Tomb to pay homage to Stalin.
Post May-Day parade celebration in Moscow. Children enjoy various rides at an amusement park. A post-parade celebration follows with a carnival, dancing and fireworks.