From a documentary film entitled "World War I". Events leading to World War I. Soldiers at a parade. In August 1914 the leading nations of Europe prepare to go for a war. Soldiers on the battle field. The scenes after the war show damage to life and material. Smoke all around. A tank on the battle field. Sketches of the U.S. President Thomas Woodrow Wilson explain people to be neutral in the war. A sketch of a soldier carrying an artillery. Sketches depict World War I, the industries in the United States. Workers work inside the factory. A sketch of Thomas Woodrow Wilson. People hold strike posters. The President addresses a gathering. A cartoon depicts the concern of the President in the domestic reforms. Sketch of the President sitting in a chair and other officials stand near him. Animation of a map shows Serbia. Sketches of assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria by Gavrilo Princip, a Bosnian Serb citizen of Austria-Hungary. Serbia raises a war against Austria and Russia assists. Soldiers on horses prepare for war. Soldiers carry weapons as they run. Germany assists Austria in the war. Soldiers on horses carry weapons. President Thomas Woodrow Wilson seeks to help the world. Sketches of soldiers on horses during a fight and of an injured soldier during the war.
Events during World War I. Sketches : workers in a German arms factory. German soldiers advance towards France. Animation of a map shows the German invasion of France through Belgium. Kaiser Wilhelm II, the German Emperor. Buildings damaged by invading Germans. U.S. president Thomas Woodrow Wilson advises Americans to stay calm. American people read papers. Cartoon depicts the President about his domestic reforms. The German atrocities in Belgium. Man holds a dead person. Sketch depicts Germany crushing everything on its way. The apprehensive people of America. Sketches of American man against a German leader. Trucks and taxi cabs on the Orne river. A gun barrel. Bombs being dropped on the German ships. Worker at a factory in America. Sketch of a man standing beside a flag having the dollar sign shows the prosperous America. Sketch shows the various resources required by the American industries. An American ship carrying war materiel. Sailors in German submarines. German submarines target allied ships. Sketches of U.S. president Wilson warning Germany. On 1st May 1915 RMS Lusitania a British luxury ship at sea as it starts from New York. Paper shows a warning by the German government. A German sailor on board a submarine as it targets a ship. The RMS Lusitania ship sinks killing many, including Americans. The U.S. secretary of State William Jennings Bryan and Thomas Woodrow Wilson with other officials. The former U.S. president Theodore Roosevelt addresses people opposing President Wilson's policy. The President prepares a note for Germany. Sketch of U.S. Democratic Presidential candidate William Jennings Bryan during his resignation. Sketch of Kaiser Wilhelm II.
Sketches of World War I. Sketches : U.S. president Thomas Woodrow Wilson. Trench warfare. Rail guns and heavy artillery. Explosions on the land. Battle of Verdun. Battle of the Somme. Soldiers of both sides lying dead on the ground. Soldiers run with artillery into the trenches. Cemetery. British tanks. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson reads casualty reports in newspaper. British troops blinded by mustard gas. The German and the British newspapers. President Wilson sends advisor Colonel Edward M. House to plead for peace without victory. U.S. Presidential election. The campaigns during the elections in America. President Wilson is peace candidate. Charles Evans Hughes, backed by Theodore Roosevelt, is war candidate. Members of the army and navy league protest on the streets. Women holding a sign that reads 'Real patriots keep cool'. German Americans favor the German war cause.
Events during World War 1. Sketches : In November 1916 newspaper shows Wilson reelected as a president. Cartoon depict the people of America supporting the Wilson's policy of peace. Several sketches of Thomas Woodrow Wilson after winning the election. Second inaugural of President Wilson at the United States capitol in Washington D.C. The German High Command in Berlin. Posters show the hardships of German citizens due to Allied blockade. Germany announces unrestrained submarine warfare against all vessels. Posters of the Germans destroying the American ships. The New York times reports German demarche to Japan and Mexico for support to Germany. Sketch depicts Germany Secretary of foreign affairs, Arthur Zimmermann seeks these alliances. Theodore Roosevelt addresses people. Several sketches of Woodrow Wilson. On April 2nd 1917 President Woodrow Wilson obtains declaration of war against Germany, from congress. American enters the conflict. U.S. Soldiers carry weapons in the battle field. sketches of several American officials. People work in factories to produce war materiel. A person with posters promoting Liberty bonds. A blindfolded person draws numbers from a bowl for civilian conscription. Citizens entering military service. People in a railroad train and others stand outside. People holding baggage walk in a group. A doctor checks the mouth of a recruit. Army recruit getting a haircut. Soldier stands holding guns. Soldiers practice firing artillery. Soldiers march. American recruits practice on wooden guns. Several sketches of the allied armies.
Final throes of World War I and postwar situation. German submarines sinking allied ships. American workers work in war plants. U.S. Army General John Joseph Pershing visits France. American soldiers disembark from a ship in France. Germans defeat Russians on Eastern front and divert troops to the Western front. German soldiers on horse drawn wagons and others walk carrying guns as they move. Riots in Russia after it collapses in war. American soldiers fire field artillery. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson writes letters to countries at war like Germany. Papers with the 14 points to maintain peace. The soldiers of Germany and America on battle field. Dead soldiers on ground. Soldiers carry another injured soldier on a stretcher. The people protest during a rebellion in Germany. Soldiers of America cheer signing of Armistice. Cemetery. .Americans on streets in the U.S. after the war. President Woodrow Wilson goes on a tour of Europe. He sails to different places. Prime Minister David Lloyd George of the United Kingdom, Prime Minister Vittorio Emanuele Orlando of Italy, Prime Minister Georges Clemenceau of France, and President Woodrow Wilson of the United States in France during the signing of the Treaty of Versailles. Map shows the different nations formed after the war. The president returns after his visit. Henry Cabot Lodge, a U.S. senator. President visits different places to explain the peace treaty. Sketches show the President suffering a paralytic stroke and his wife takes his important decisions. Sketch depict the opponents of the peace treaty and the defeat of the league of nations. Warren Gamaliel Harding elected as the new President Harbinger of the future: views of Adolf Hitler on the rise in postwar Germany.
The life of Americans in the 1920s. Women dance the Charleston. A man dances the Charleston with a woman. Musicians play in the background. Patrons of Steeplechase Park, in Coney Island, on a spinning wheel. Clown steer a woman to where her dress gets blown up from a hidden air jet. Women on the boardwalk in batihing suits and being arrested by police. A man lifts up a woman during the dance performance. A sketch shows women applying make up. Several scenes showing the gap between the people who could accept the modern ideas and those who couldn't. Clarence Darrow and William Jennings Bryan. Views of Steelmaking at steel factory plants. A scene with the Ku Klux Klan, or KKK. People protesting the trial of Sacco and Vanzetti, accused anarchists. Various banners during the protests.
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