Hitler declares a policy on Sudetenland on 26th September, 1938. He speaks at the Berlinsportpalast, Berlin, Germany. Newspaper headlines about Sudetenland. German Chancellor Adolf Hitler from a podium. The insignia of the Nazi Party on the stage. The flags of the Nazi Party. People seated in the hall listen to his speech. Banner expressing the Party slogan: One People, One Realm, One Leader.
Events prior to World War II. Deserted streets along the Czechoslovakian border in Germany. A vehicle loaded with civilian refugees from Sudetenland arrives and people exit vehicle. Bullet marks on a car. Damaged electric cables. Female refugees weep as they expect a German invasion on Sudetenland.
The Entente Powers intervention in Siberia during the Russian Civil War and World War 1. Commander of Czech forces, General Gaida, and his staff, sit with Commander of U.S. forces, Major General William S Graves, and one of his staff officers. A wounded Czech soldier is carried on a stretcher, by U.S. soldiers wearing campaign hats and red cross armbands, from a railroad train car labeled Expeditionary Forces Siberia. The stretcher bearers place the wounded into a field ambulance.
International Peace Campaign demonstration at Czechoslovakian Legation, Grosvenor Place, London, England. Demonstrators march on street. Four men stand in front of the Legation, holding, respectively, British flag, Czechoslovakian flag, United States flag, and Russian flag. Buses and cars pass by. Policemen control traffic, and the crowds, on Grosvenor Place. Some demonstrators carry banners. A banner reads 'stop German aggression, act to save peace'. A group of women, and two men watch from the Czechoslovakian Legation balcony. Huge numbers of Londoners participate in the demonstrations.
Review of conflicts involving U.S. from World War 2 to 1970. A U.S. soldier with rifle and binoculars, on guard. German Chancellor Adolf Hitler speaks in Germany to mass audience. German mobilization and blitzkrieg. U.S. troops firing small arms on island in Pacific, battling Japanese. U.S. soldiers on half-track firing artillery. Explosive destruction of Nazi swastika and Eagle symbol on top of building in Zeppelin Field, Nuremberg, Germany. General Douglas MacArthur stands as Japanese General signs surrender documents aboard USS Missouri, ending World War II. Times Square in New York City on Victory over Japan Day (VJ Day) marking end of World War 2. American troops firing artillery and small arms in Korean War. Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev speaking at the United Nations. Newspaper headlines about postwar Berlin Crisis. Soviet missiles on display in military parade in Red Square in Moscow, Russia, Soviet Union. Soviet General Georgy Zhukov and Nikita Khrushchev, at Kremlin, reviewing the parade. Cuban President Fidel Castro giving a speech. A newspaper headline reading: "Khrushchev orders removal of missiles" ending the Cuban Missile Crisis. Soviet cargo ship with covered missiles on its deck. Red flag with image of Lenin and message: 'Partido Communista Dominicano' and a crowd chanting support for the Communist party in the Dominican Republic. Communist Chinese people marching with massed flags in the People’s Republic of China. Chairman Mao Zedong waving to a crowd of young supporters and Red Guards in China as they chant. A United States soldier in South Vietnam during Vietnam War looks through binoculars and then walks carrying his M-16 rifle. A map of Vietnam.
Eastern Front battle of Soviet army as it repels the German Wehrmacht from a Soviet city, and captures German POW's. The German prisoners are marched into Soviet camps in winter snow covered landscape under guard of Russian Army soldiers. Aerial view of massive invasion force in English Channel on D-Day for the the Invasion of Normandy. View from landing craft of American infantry going ashore. Allied soldiers taking fire from German enemy during D-Day beach landings. Allied armies moving inland through France seen in combat with Germans in French villages and towns. Many German prisoners rounded-up and seen marching toward prison camps under British and U.S. Army guard.
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