Checkpoint Charlie (Friedrichstraße 43-45, 10117 Berlin, Germany) separating Western and Eastern Berlin. A large Soviet flag at the entrance to the eastern side, and a Checkpoint Charlie sign reads "You are leaving the American sector." A watchtower with military personnel inside watching all movement. Historical footage of the Berlin Wall being built circa 1961, with Soviet troops stringing barbed wire when the wall was first constructed. Views of a wreath, flowers, and makeshift memorial, presumably for someone killed while attempting to cross the Berlin Wall. A watch tower high above the Berlin Wall, and views of the Berlin Wall separating West Berlin from East Germany, constructed of large flat, grey bricks and blocks of varying sizes.
Headquarters building for the United States Seventeenth Air Force at Ramstein Air Base and NATO Command Base in West Germany. View of the building exterior, cars parked out front and flags flying over the building. Inside, an Air Force officer enters a room labeled "USAFE-MAC. Consolidated Airlift Command Post". Inside view of the room are shown with officers on the telephone in front of a large map of Europe. "USAFE Airlift Control Center. Aircraft of the U.S. Air Force taxi on a runway, including several C-130, C-141, and a C-5 readying for taking off. Aerial view of Soviet warships moving together in the sea. A missile is fired from one of the ships. View of Soviet paratroopers jumping from an airplane.
A pro Betancourt rally in Venezuela. Crowds gathered with signage against Fidel Castro and in support of Romulo Betancourt. Betancourt addresses the crowds from a podium on a stage, outdoors. A man sitting looking at a radio tower. Images of radio control equipment and sign wave signatures on a scope. Scenes of protest and rioting in a Latin American or South American city. Police combating demonstrators. Vehicles overturned. Citizens running through the streets. Crowds being sprayed by fire hoses from moving fire trucks. Close up views of a newspaper "La Prensa" indicating Fidel Castro's support of the Communist party in Peru. Headline, "Fidel Castro Financia al partido comunista Peruano." An inside headline from the same paper reads, "La Embajada de Cuba Distribuye Propaganda Subversica en el Peru" indicating that an Ambassador from Cuba distributed anti-government, subversive propaganda en Peru. What follows are a series of images drawing parallels between Castro and other fascist historical leaders. Castro speaking forcefully, then a cut to historical excerpts from speeches by Hitler and Goebels in Germany during World War II. A scene with Hitler speaking and gesticulating wildly and forcefully, followed by a scene with Castro doing the same. A wooden sign with skull and crossbones and the words "HALT! STOJ!" on it. Prisoners in a German Nazi concentration camp, thin, weary, and huddled near a barb wire perimeter fence circa early 1945. Nikita Khrushchev on a review stand waving his hat to Soviet Army forces marching below him carrying guns with bayonets fixed. Chinese citizen-military forces (possibly early Red Guard) at a rally, with young women and young men raising rifles in the air . Soviet Russian leader Nikita Khrushchev shaking hands with Chinese leader Mao Zedong, Chairman of the Communist Party of China. A group of Chinese workers digging ditches, including men and women Chinese workers. Still image of Khrushchev and Castro embracing. An anti-communist rally in Cuba.
The access routes to West Berlin are shut down by Soviet forces during the Cold War. Cars and people lined up as traffic guards investigate the vehicles at Checkpoint Charlie. Sign reads, 'You are leaving the American Sector' Barricades and wires block the city roads. A session of the German Parliament in the Congress Hall. Soviet MiG-19 or MiG-21 fighter planes swoop down close to the building in an intimidating gesture. A man records the event with a film camera.
The 1956 Hungarian Revolution. Four boys collect cartridges on road. Soviet tanks rolling through streets of Budapest. Battles between insurrectionists and Soviet soldiers in front of the Communist Party headquarters. Exchange of gunfire near the building. Citizens helping wounded freedom fighters, carrying litters across city square under fire. A Hungarian tank moves across the square.
United States President John F Kennedy addresses General Assembly of the United Nations in New York. View of the United Nations headquarters in New York City. President Kennedy addresses the General Assembly of the United Nations- September 25, 1961. “Every man, woman and child lives under a nuclear sword of Damocles, hanging by the slenderest of threads, capable of being cut at any moment by accident or miscalculation or by madness. The weapons of war must be abolished before they abolish us.” President Kennedy said. Dignitaries arrive in Moscow. Dean Rusk, Secretary of State of the United States, Andrei Gromyko, Soviet Foreign Minister and Alec Douglas Home, British Foreign Minister signs Nuclear Test Ban Treaty in Moscow. Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev claps with others on the signing of the Treaty. President John F Kennedy signs Nuclear Test Ban Treaty at White house, Washington DC. Dean Rusk seen with other Senators.
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