First scene shows President Harry Truman shaking hands with Joseph Stalin on a porch of the Cecilienhof ( home of Crown Prince Wilhelm) in Potsdam, Germany. The two leaders are accompanied by their respective foreign ministers, James F. Byrnes, U.S. Secretary of State, and Soviet Minister of Foreign Affairs, Vyacheslav Molotov. Stalin descends steps from the building followed by Truman. View of the back lawn at Cecilienhof. View of its front entrance. Various views of the house and grounds. American, Soviet, and British flags flying from the building. Cars carrying the leaders on road to the Cecilienhof. President Truman and James Byrnes entering outside gate, followed by other attendees. Then Stalin is seen entering followed by Soviet officers and officials. U.S. General Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Commander Allied Expeditionary Force (SCAEF) in Europea and U.S. Army Chief of Staff. George Marshall are seen walking together in a wooded glade on the meeting grounds. British Field Marshal Bernard Law Montgomery, entering the grounds for the meeting. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, President Harry Truman, and Joseph Stalin stand on a step before an entrance to Cecilienhof. Truman places their hands together in a mutual handshake, at which Churchill and Stalin laugh. Views of the Kremlin and St. Basil's Cathedral, in Red Square, Moscow, Russia where foreign minsters of the United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union are seen meeting meeting in conference at the Spiridonovka Palace in October, 1943. Closeup of Soviet Prime Minister Vyacheslav Molotov, British Prime Minister, Anthony Eden, and U.S. Secretary of State, Warren Hull, successively signing a document. Scene shifts, to a C-47 transport aircraft flying over great pyramid of Giza in Cairo, Egypt. Next, the front of the Soviet Embassy in Teheran, Iran, is shown. The "Big Three" (Stalin, Roosevelt, and Churchill) sit on the porch of the building. Military officers from their countries stand behind them. Narrator (Franklin D. Roosevelt) says they agreed to launch a gigantic attack on Germany. Scene shifts to Germany, where German military is paraded on public display, showing artillery, Panzer I tanks carried aboard army trucks, Heinkel He 111 bombers in formation overhead, and marching troops giving Nazi salute silhouetted against bright pavement. View shifts to the Livadia Palace, in Yalta, Crimea, Russia. Brief view of the "Big Three" and their staffs sitting around a conference table. Change of location to San Francisco, California, where flags of many nations are displayed along with a United Nations Logo. Representatives of the many nations sign the Charter of the United Nations, founding the U.N. organization on 26 June 1945. Film shifts to Germany where victorious American, British and Soviet troops shake hands and celebrate victory. They share drinks and toast victory.
The Battle of Okinawa in Okinawa, Japan during World War II. A United States M5 tank with name "Amapola" painted on side is seen passing in the foreground. Two tanks advance and United States Army infantrymen follow behind. The tanks fire. Shells burst. The command post at the top of a ridge. The tanks firing. Smoke columns rise as the tanks fire. U.S. Army Lt General Simon Bolivar Buckner directing operations. United States 6th Marine Division tanks in a valley fire at caves on the side of a cliff. Smoke rises due to the firing, and U.S. infantry advance.
U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower's 130th press conference in Washington DC, United States. Newsmen from different nations arrive for President Eisenhower's 130th press conference. Men seated in a hall inside a building. President Eisenhower arrives with officials. The President speaks during the conference. Press and media representatives take notes. Chalmers M. Roberts, a pressman, asks the President that with the summit issues in the impasse between the U.S. and the Soviet Union, does the President see any initiative to break it or would the arms race go on indefinitely. President Eisenhower says that they should seek some common ground where there is a beginning made towards agreement in which they can work better co-operatively. The men gathered in the hall take down notes. View of the President speaking. Photographers taking pictures. The President unfolds a document and says that it is the list of subjects that the United States has proposed unilaterally with respect to the Allies. He cites the Baruch Plan - '46, the preparation of inspection and control measures, the Open Skies proposal, the peaceful use of outer space, the transfer of nuclear weapon stocks to peaceful use such as for power, freedom of travel and the limitation of the UN Veto. The President further says that he does not think he is being negative just by being firm and believing in what is right for the welfare of the United States.
United States military soldiers in Brest, France during World War I. U.S. soldiers seated on a sidewalk in front of a building. A woman brings a French orphan boy. The boy smiles and salutes standing beside the soldiers. Another boy dressed in soldier's clothes smiles standing beside the woman. The woman lifts the clothing from the boy's back to show scars. A few American officers posing on a path. A few of them seated and a few of them standing. French officers stand holding hands to make an archway for children to pass through. Young orphaned French boys and girls move in columns under the officers' hands. United States Army and Navy men standing on the side watch the children. A girl holding a kitten. A large group of U.S. soldiers seated holding adopted orphan children. United States troops holding girls seated on a lawn. One of the girls has a doll.
The whole country expresses grief on the assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King in the United States. A large gathering in Atlanta, probably at the public memorial and funeral at Morehouse College (830 Westview Dr SW, Atlanta, GA 30314, United States), to mourn the death of Martin Luther King. People express sorrow. Flashbacks of deeds and dreams of Martin King. Views of civilians expressing grief. The United States flag flying at half-mast from a flagpole, against a black background.
Different types of United States and Vietnamese aircraft at Tan Son Nhut Air Base in Vietnam during the Vietnam War. A United States Air Force Lockheed C-141A Starlifter taxis. A C-130B Hercules aircraft taxis and is parked near Air Vietnam Douglas DC-3s. United States Navy Grumman S-2D Trackers parked. A car drives in the foreground.
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