The beginning of the Korean War with the invasion of South Korea by North Korean troops. ROK (Republic of Korea) troops in trenches and at sandbagged positions on the 38th Parallel. John Foster Dulles, Consultant to the U.S. Secretary of State, visits the front areas and converses with an officer at a map. Dulles standing with ROK (Republic of Korea) troops. South Korean refugees fleeing. United Nations Security Council's meeting in progress. The empty chair of the delegate from the Soviet Union. Secretary General of the United Nations Trygve Lie speaks. The Security Council passes a resolution calling for cease fire.
The Battle of Taejon in Korea during the Korean War. U.S. vehicles and troops on the streets of Taejon. Damage and ruins in Taejon. U.S. troops engage in rear-guard street fighting in the ruins as North Korean forces continue to advance. U.S. tanks advance to take up positions on a hilly terrain. The troops fire guns. Smoke rises from explosions. Engineers lay rocks on a stream bed north of Taejon to facilitate crossing of light vehicles. Jeeps cross the stream.
U.S. troops battle North Koreans in Taejon, Korea during the Korean War. U.S. 25th Infantry Division troops fire howitzers, bazookas and other artillery weapons at North Korean positions. U.S. tanks fire at enemy positions. Smoke rises from enemy positions on hills. A U.S. aircraft bombs enemy positions. U.S. troops cover a bridge with rifle and machine gun fire to help the last units to cross a river near Yongdon. Men in a jeep fire guns as it goes across a bridge. United Nations flag flies from a pole at U.S. 24th Division Regimental Command Post in Chinju. North Korean prisoners are rounded up at the command post as South Korean troops move up to aid the defense. Trucks tow camouflage artillery guns up a hill. 25th Division infantrymen advance and recover their vehicles.
The Korean War ends with the signing of an armistice by the United Nations and Communist negotiators in Panmunjom, Korea. Neutral observers arrive to oversee the armistice. U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower announces the truce to the Americans in Washington DC. He counsels against over-optimism in the face of the major problems that remain.
The Korean Armistice Agreement signed by Communist delegates and United Nations delegates in Panmunjom, Korea ending the Korean War. UN (United Nations) honor guard lined up outside the building where armistice is to be signed. U.S. Army Lieutenant General William K. Harrison, Jr. arrives with other officials at the building. Delegate Harrison and Communist delegates sign the peace agreement. Harrison leaves the building. Far East Commander U.S. Army General Mark W. Clark signs the Korean Armistice Agreement at a base camp. Army cameramen take pictures.
Devastation and death in the Soviet Union after attacks by Nazi Germany during World War II. People mourn the death of Russian civilians. Corpses of Russian atrocity victims frozen in the snow. Women bend and weep over the dead. View of corpses of burned children in a building. Girls who had been sexually and physically assaulted by the German soldiers are escorted across a snowy courtyard, weeping. Bodies of murdered Soviet citizens hanging from poles after they resisted the Nazis. Soviet citizens and soldiers recite a pledge to revenge the Nazis.
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