British tanks being loaded at a UK port, bound for the Soviet Union, during World War 2. A Cruiser V Covenanter tank in the foreground and several Valentine tanks lined up behind it. A trainload of tanks moving on a British railway. Convoy of Allied ships headed toward the Soviet Union. Map shows route from the UK to Murmansk. View from aboard a ship in the convoy as gunners man antiaircraft gun to defend against German bombers attacking from Norway. Black flak clouds in the air. View of the convoy proceeding through waters containing drifting pieces of ice.
The end of the Winter War in Finland. Finnish representative Juho Kusti Paasikivi leaves for Moscow for a first round of negotiations on October 9, 1939. Finnish Prime Minister A. K. Cajander, speaker of Parliament Väinö Hakkila and Mrs. Alli Paasikivi see off J.K. Paaskivi on the train station. Finnish delegation and Soviet Union officials negotiate in Moscow. A man hits a gavel on his desk. Map of Scandinavia and the Western part of the Soviet Union. A bus on fire in the middle of a street, a building is on fire nearby. A woman running away from the chaos. More burning buildings. A doctor treats an injured woman in a hospital. Artillery fires in the middle of a forest in Finland. Two soldiers in white coats walk carefully in the snow. Soldiers in white coats (camouflage for winter) walk on skis and assume prone position to fire at enemy positions. Captured Soviet soldiers are made to march by Finnish troops. A row of damaged tanks in the snow. A dead soldier in the snow. Troops leave behind damaged artillery and equipment covered in snow. A photograph of Joseph Stalin among damaged equipment. Another deceased soldier lying in the snow. Finnish civilians keep warm around a bonfire in the forest. Finnish woman gives a cup to her son. Children drinking from a cup.
Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev raises the incident of United States spying Soviet positions. A United States Lockheed U-2 reconnaissance plane takes off for reconnaissance over the Soviet Union. Parts from downed U-2 plane, including pilot's uniform, on display in the Soviet Union. Pilot Francis Gary Powers tried in Moscow. Power's family during the trial in court. Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev speaks about the incident at the Paris Summit. The historic UN session on September 23, 1960 of the General Assembly in New York. Nikita Khrushchev targets British Prime Minister Harold MacMillan at the meeting. In the UN chamber, Khrushchev pounds his fists on his desk along with the entire Soviet delegation. General Secretary Dag Hammarskjöld defies Khrushchev's threats.
Visit of Leonid Brezhnev, General Secretary Communist Party of the Soviet Union to United States. He meets President Richard Nixon. Naval officers on alert at Navy Yard. Nixon and Brezhnev arrive at Navy Yard and board a yacht Sequoia. Flags of United States and Soviet Union on mast of the yacht. Both the leaders stand on its deck. Press photographers take photos as Sequoia cruises down Potomac.
United States President Harry S. Truman addresses the nation from White House in Washington D.C., United States. U.S. President Truman at a desk in the White house as he addresses the nation over the national radio. A radio tower. The President speaks of the danger posed by Soviet Union as it is pushing cold war into a general war. The representatives of different nations at the United Nations Security Council. Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin reviews a military parade at Red Square in Moscow. President Truman says that Soviet Union has aggravated the Korean War.
Allied leaders meet at the Yalta Conference in Crimea, Soviet Union during World War II. U.S. Secretary of State Edward Stettinius, Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs Vyachselav Molotov and British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden pose at an airfield. Stettinius, Soviet Deputy Commissar for Foreign Affairs Andrey Gromyko and Harry Hopkins talk and smile. U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union W. Averell Harriman, Harry Hopkins and Stettinius at the airfield. U.S. Army General George C. Marshal with Harriman, Molotov and others outside a tent. U.S. Navy Admiral Ernest J. King greets Russian officers.
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