Former Soviet leader Leon Trotsky, in exile in Mexico City, Mexico. Mexican communist leaders sitting at a hospital after Trotsky admitted to hospital, when an attempt on his life was made. A large group of Mexican communists talk together standing in a group. An ambulance drives out of the hospital. A large assembly of people gathered at the hospital. Leon Trotsky in bed succumbs to death. A medic inspects his body and declares him dead. Crowd of people gathers at the hospital to see the dead body of the great communist leader. Press photographers take photos of dead body of Trotsky.
Soviet Leaders Georgy Malenkov, Josef Stalin, and Nikolai Bulganin applauding at a ceremony. In different place, Andrei Gromyko walks with Party officials outdoors. A brief shot of military parade displaying large guns on trailers. Josef Stalin and others on Kremlin balcony.
Russian politician Mihail Ivanovic Kalinin together with members of his office staff works with persons presenting documents that he inspects. He inspects papers from a man and converses at length with him. Kalinin at his desk with papers, and at a podium speaking, with handful of papers. In separate scene, Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, in plain brown uniform, addresses a group of similarly dressed men.
Documentary titled the "'Rehearsal of War." Film begins showing shells bursting in hills as a soldier runs for cover in foreground. Next, a Republican Soldier helps a wounded comrade walking along a road. More views of combat in Spain. View of the State, War, and Navy Building in Washington, DC. Sign over a doorway reading: "Chief of Staff." Inside, General Malin Craig, in civilian clothes, flanked by two officials, examines a report entitled, "Analysis of the "Brihuega Campaign." The document also reads: "Guadalajara Front." and is dated 3/27/1937. A document (Classified "Confidential") is shown that discusses the capabilities of the French 20mm Moteur canon firing 300-400 shots per minute with explosive shells.Glimpse of an Army officer's hand marking a map in a book. On his table is a book entitled,"Two World's in Conflict, We or They." Flags of Germany and Italy are seen. Closeup of Benito Mussolini in arms-crossed pose. Italian crowd cheering. View of Adolf Hitler standing with Marshal Hermann Goering, German Army Chief of Staff, Werner von Fritsch, and Rudolf Hess (just barely seen). Animated map of Europe shows Germany and Italy with desired expansion of both. Mussolini walks with military officers past a large Italian trimotor transport aircraft. A field filled with Italian light tanks armed with one small gun each. Each is crewed by one man. A parade of German Sd.Kfz.7 halftrack transporters filled with troops and each pulling an 88mm Flak gun on a Sonderanhänger 201 trailer. Brief view of formation of high wing monoplanes with fixed landing gears, flying overhead. German troops in realistic field exercise of infantry and Panzer I Ausf. A tanks. Closeup of tank with troops. Flame throwing tanks firing in a desert area. Adolf Hitler addressing an audience, finishes with a half-hearted Nazi salute. U.S. Military officers discuss Axis blitzkrieg tactics charting reports from the Spanish campaign on maps. View of Saint Jean de Luz, France, where U.S. Ambassador to Spain, Claude Bowers, is seen on the telephone at the Miramar Hotel where he has taken temporary refuge. Final scenes show a 4-stacker U.S. Navy warship patrolling in Spanish waters and the Captain and officers inside aboard ship reviewing maps and positions.
The Spanish Civil War and preparations of fascist powers in Europe evaluated by U.S. Military experts in Washington DC. Spanish General Francisco Franco reviews his troops. Troops march on streets and salute General Franco. Animated map shows the European countries during the Spanish Civil War. Franco's Nationalists march on roads and his infantrymen and artillery battle with Loyalists. Franco's bombers raid and bomb Madrid. People run for shelter and Insurgent Armor marches on street. Soviet tanks and military aid reaches the Republican loyalists. The Army War College in Washington DC where military experts analyze the tactics used by Fascists, Nationalists and Russians during the civil war. Gas masks, antiaircraft guns, bomber planes, tanks and anti tank guns developed to be used in coming wars of future predicted by the American experts. Scientists work in a laboratory to synthesize poison gases for chemical warfare. The soldiers of Spanish Nationalist Army march on in countryside during the civil war.
The Spanish Civil War and preparations of fascist powers in Europe evaluated by U.S. Military experts in Washington DC. The Army Day parade at the Capitol Hill in Washington DC. A large crowd gathers to watch the parade by military troops. Infantrymen march and tanks brigade follow them. U.S. President Franklin D Roosevelt and General Pershing review the parade. First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt introduces Admiral Byrd during a talk show. Admiral Byrd demands the end of war and urges U.S. leadership for international peace.
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