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Assorted scenes of World War I, as America enters in 1917
An Allied ship in final stage of sinking by German U-Boat during World War 1. The ship's boilers explode as she goes under. U.S. President Woodrow Wilson looking out a window in his office in the White House. Officers and crew crowd conning tower of German submarine U-35 as it approaches a steamer it has stopped in Mediterranean Sea. View of shells from the U-Boat's deck gun, striking at the ship's waterline. View from the U-Boat U-35 deck as the attacked ship is sinking. She disappears, bow-first, beneath the water. Black smoke issues from her stack. President Wilson signing papers at his desk. American flag flying in front of the nation's capitol. President Wilson addressing the Congress and obtaining a declaration of war against Germany, on April 6, 1917. A banner reading: "War is declared." New recruits marching into an Army Post, in civilian clothes, carrying personal baggage. Regular U.S. soldiers beginning the basic training of recruits. Recruits learning the manual of arms, with wooden substitute weapons. Recruits engaged in Calisthenics outdoors at an army base. Contingents of uniformed and trained American soldiers marching along a road. Soldiers practicing live fire with machine guns, and engaged in bayonet training. Troops in formation double-time marching. American troops marching to trains at a railroad station, as spectators cheer them from the train station platforms. They board railway train and wave as it pulls out of the station.
Animation shows the launch of Soviet satellite Sputnik 1.
Animation shows the first Soviet satellite Sputnik being launched into space early in the "space race." Animated cartoon shows Sputnik 1 being launched by a rocket booster. Rocket takes off and detaches later on. Satellite being placed in the earth's orbit. Narrator refers to the satellite as a "new moon". Satellite orbiting the earth. Technician in front of IBM computers receives telemetry.
Career of U.S. Air Force General Henry (Hap) Arnold. Advent of World War Two.
Year 1938. Adolf Hitler gives speech. U.S. Army Major General Henry (Hap) Arnold is appointed Chief of the U.S. Army Air Corps. President Franklin D. Roosevelt with General Arnold in an open car, inspecting a new bomber. Sketches of various airplanes proposed to modernize the U.S. Army Air Corps, including Northrup A-17-A; Bell P-39; and Douglas B-23. Views of U. S. Army pursuit airplanes and North American BC-1 training aircraft. Paratroopers jump from C-47 aircraft. A P-38 lightning airplane maneuvers in flight.
Following Kristallnacht, former President Hoover and others make nationwide plea for Jews facing Nazi brutality in Europe.
President Franklin D Roosevelt leads the nation's protest against prosecution of Jews in Germany. Roosevelt during a recording of the plea. In Germany, Jewish owned shops with broken windows following Kristallnacht (night of broken glass) depict Nazi brutality in Germany. Palo Alto, California: Former President Herbert Hoover expresses indignation at the brutal intolerance of the Nazis and predicts their 'moral isolation'. He also expresses American support for Jews and Christians in Germany and compares their brutality to the destruction of religious worship by the Bolsheviks in Russia. New York: Reverend RI Gannon of Fordham University and Methodist Bishop Edwin H Hughes raise their voices against the outbreaks of violence and hate against Jews in Europe. They compare the Nazis to the original Huns and make a plea for the Jews.
Cold War defense and readiness exercise and dramatization. U.S. launches Intercontinental Ballistic missiles
Dramatization of Cold War defense exercise: The White House in Washington DC. Duty officer in NORAD Headquarters Command Center war room at Ent Air Force Base in Colorado Springs speaks on telephone. Orders transmitted to SAC Missile control centers. Close-up view of a small black box control with label "Warning circuit - Hand off" with lights and two switches between settings, "War" and "Key" and the other says "GRP" and "Key". A silo containing a Titan Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM) is opened. The missile is launched. Civilian officials in White House monitor the situation. Civilian police officers are notified. Early 1960s view of pedestrians and traffic on busy streets and sidewalks of New York City. People on city streets going about their business. A NYC Transit Authority Mack bus goes by, with slogan on its side "Ride The Surface Way".
Montage of images reflecting aspects of 20th Century life in America before World War II
Brief views of ordinary American people and their music and reading activities, including: Scenes of many different radios in all locations, and hands on dials of radios, including console radios, portable radios in many rooms of the house, car radios, and hand-carried (vintage boom box) radio. A jukebox and a bobby soxer (bobby socks fashion), dancing; Crowd dancing to a swing band at a jazz night club; Older people doing country dances; Xavier Cugat conducting his orchestra; Tchaikovsky's 5th symphony being played in the Hollywood Bowl; African American jazz musician playing trumpet; a school marching band; newspaper being printed on a printing press; a news stand filled with papers and magazines; numerous city newspapers; a library filled with books; a Dick Tracy comic strip.
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