Allied Conference in Yalta, Crimea in Ukraine on coast of the Black Sea. The British, Russian and United States representatives meet to plan the political future of Europe after World War II. Livadia Palace, the summer residence of former Czar Nicolas II. Special communication lines are strung. Soviet Foreign Secretary Vyacheslav Molotov waits at air base for the British and U.S. delegations. Soldiers march in a field. Flags of Russia, Britain and U.S. Plane arrives at base. British Foreign Minister, Anthony Eden, U.S. Secretary of State Edward Stettinius, Adviser to President Roosevelt Harry Hopkins and U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union, W.Averell Harriman arrive. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt arrive by plane. Lavadia Castle at the island. Randolph Churchill, son of Sir Winston Churchill arrives by car with President Roosevelt's daughter Anna Roosevelt. Prime Minister of Soviet Union Marshal Joseph Stalin arrives. They discuss military and political postwar plans. They make decisions regarding postwar Germany. Family members of Allied officers visit the Palace. Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin seated for a photograph.
Soviet Union soldiers fight German troops in Stalingrad, Russia. Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini and Fuhrer Adolf Hitler in an open top car in a European city. Their motorcade passes through crowded streets. People give Nazi salute to Hitler. Wreckage of tanks and ruins in Stalingrad Russia. Billows of smoke rise from explosions. Russian soldiers drive the enemy (Germans) back to Germany. Tanks and soldiers advance on the battlefield. (World War II period).
Victory in Europe Day celebrations at the end of World War II, London, England. Airmen of United States Air Force 303rd Bomb Group sit together, smile and appear jubilant on Victory in Europe day. Two airmen read a newspaper with a headline 'Germany Quits'. They shake hands and celebrate the Allied victory in World War II.
President Franklin D Roosevelt addresses a joint session of the Congress in Washington DC, United States. Roosevelt informs the Congress about the decisions taken at the Yalta Conference in World War II. He states that the two most important purposes of the Conference were to bring peace in Germany and establishment of an international court. He also declares that war against Japan will continue.
Soviet troops march at a victory parade in Red Square after the Allied victory over Germany in World War II. Joseph Stalin, Vyacheslav Molotov, Nikita Khrushchev, General Semen Budennyi and other officials atop Lenin's tomb as they review the victory parade. Nazi German flags and banners thrown at the foot of Lenin's tomb. High ranking Soviet military officers are seen watching the parade.
The end of World War 2 in Europe (but still going on in the Pacific). Horse cart on a street in Germany. Civilians tending cart with the dead bodies of German soldiers in the cart. Graves of the dead German soldiers. United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Winston Churchill, and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin at the Yalta conference. Allied Navy warships underway at sea. Large room filled with architects and draftsmen at drafting tables with drawings. Construction site for a large dam and for an electric power station. Sweeping view of farm fields in the United States. A cow and her calf together. Farmers in the U.S. harvesting food. American children in a simple rural school house with a wood stove, listening to a teacher read at the front of the one room schoolhouse.
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