- Title: V-2344
- Summary: AFTERMATH OF WWII: PRELUDE TO COLD WAR: END OF WORLD WAR TWO WWII. UNITED NATIONS VICTORY. SURRENDER OF JAPAN.
- Description:00:45:00 - SEPTEMBER. 2, 1945. MEN ON NAVY BATTLESHIP. SOLDIERS STANDING EVERYWHERE. SURRENDER OF JAPAN. SIGNING PAPERS. MACARTHUR SPEAKS 00:46:08 - SOLDIERS WALK THROUGH WAR-TORN EUROPEAN CITY. SOLDIERS HELPING WOUNDED PEOPLE. 00:46:27 - GERMAN SOLDIERS SURRENDER, HANDS UP IN THE AIR NAZI SYMBOL BEING TORN FROM BUILDING. FLAGS GOING UP. 00:46:40 - PRESIDENT TRUMAN SPEECH "THE PEACE LOVING NATIONS HAVE DEMONSTRATED..THE FLAGS OF FREEDOM FLY" WITH IMAGES OF GERMANY SURRENDERING, SIGNING SURRENDER PAPERS 00:47:01 - EUROPEANS CELEBRATE END OF WWII, BELL RINGING. PEOPLE DANCING. CELEBRATION. 00:47:39 - CHAOS AND RUINS POST-WWII. HOMELESS WAR VICTIMS DIRTY CHILDREN PLAYING IN RUINS. RECONSTRUCTION. REPATRIATION OF DISPLACED PERSONS. PEOPLE AND SUPPLIES BEING LOADED ON TRUCK."UNRRA" UNITED NATIONS RELIEF AND REHABILITATION SUPPLIES, 00:48:38 - SOLDIERS LIFT BABY IN CARRIAGE. 00:48:44 - UNRRA DISPENSARY. INOCULATION MEDICAL PROCESSING. DOCTOR EXAMINING PEOPLE. CHILDREN. 00:48:53 - HOMELESS, DISPLACED WAR VICTIMS HANDED OUT SUPPLIES, BLANKETS, FOOD. 00:49:02 - PAN WAR DEAD, CASUALTIES. HUGE CEMETERY OF SIMPLE WHITE CROSSES. 00:49:14 - SAN FRANCISCO. UN CONFERENCE ON INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATION. JUNE, 1945. BEGINNINGS OF THE UN. MEMBERS SIGNING THE CHARTER. 00:50:11 - INTERNATIONAL WAR CRIMES TRIALS. INTERNATIONAL MILITARY TRIBUNAL. JUSTICE ROBERT JACKSON SPEAKS. IMAGES OF CONCENTRATION CAMP DEAD BODIES. WAR CRIMINALS FORCED TO RETURN TO GERMAN CONCENTRATION CAMP. MEN COVER THEIR NOSES. 00:52:14 - COLONIAL EMPIRES OF ASIA. INDIA. MAN IN RICKSHAW. NEW SENSE OF NATIONALISM, PROTEST MARCH. GUERILLA WARFARE. SHOOTING. DISCUSSIONS AND NEGOTIATIONS. PASSIVE RESISTANCE. GANDHI. NEHRU 00:52:58 - MAP OF ORIENT. CHINA, INDIA, INDO-CHINA, PHILIPPINES, INDONESIA 00:53:10 - MAP OF GLOBE. HIGHLIGHTING WESTERN INDUSTRIAL COUNTRIES OF THE WEST: GREAT BRITAIN, FRANCE BALANCE OF POWER ALTERED BY THE WAR. UNITED STATES AND SOVIET UNION EMERGED AS POWERFUL NATIONS (BEGINNING OF THE NEW ATOMIC AGE) 00:54:17 - BREAKUP OF THE GRAND ALLIANCE. POST-WWII NEW YORK CITY. PEOPLE SHOPPING FOR GROCERIES. 00:54:28 - PEASANT WOMAN OVER DEAD BODY. MOURNING 00:54:43 - SOVIET UNION CITY IN RUINS, PEOPLE WALKING, PAN PROPERTY DAMAGE 00:54:53 - POV FLYING INTO RUSSIA PEOPLE, ANIMALS, TRUCKS, NO HOUSES LEFT STANDING 00:55:10 - ALLIED OFFICIALS WALKING ON BEACH. SALUTE. SOLDIER PLAYS ACCORDION. SOLDIERS DANCING. SOLDIERS DANCE WITH CIVILIAN WOMAN AND OTHER SOLDIERS. DRINK BEER FROM STEIN. 00:55:44 - THE BIG THREE, CHURCHILL, ROOSEVELT, STALIN. ALLIED LEADERS AT THE YALTA CONFERENCE. 2/45 00:56:26 - POTSDAM CONFERENCE 8/45. TRUMAN PART OF THE BIG THREE . CLEMENT ATLEE. STALIN 00:57:10 - MAP OF EUROPE, GERMANY SPLIT IN FOUR ZONES OF OCCUPATION. BRITISH. SOVIET. AMERICA. FRENCH 00:57:45 - SIGN "YOU ARE LEAVING THE AMERICAN SECTION" WRITTEN IN ENGLISH, RUSSIAN, FRENCH. 00:57:52 - FOUR-POWERED ALLIED CONTROL COUNCIL MEETING. FIELD MARSHALL BERNARD MONTGOMERY, GENERAL EISENHOWER. 00:58:13 - PARIS PEACE CONFERENCE. FOREIGN MINISTER MOLOTOV. SECRETARY OF STATE BARNES. 00:58:43 - POLISH PEOPLE IN WOODEN WAGON BEING PULLED BY HORSES POLAND ELECTIONS, CITIZENS LINE UP TO VOTE. POST-WWII 00:59:13 - POST-WWII MAP OF EUROPE. COMMUNIST CONTROLLED BUFFER STATES. CENTRAL EUROPEAN NATIONS. WINSTON CHURCHILL VOICE OVER SPEECH COINING THE PHRASE "IRON CURTAIN" 00:59:48 - POST-WWII UNITED NATIONS SESSION. ANDREI GROMEKYO. JAMES BYRNES, SECRETARY OF STATE 1945-47. MEMBERS VOTING ON IRAN COMPLAINT AGAINST SOVIET UNION, RUSSIAN MEMBER DREW IN PROTEST. NON-COOPERATION. EMPTY SOVIET UNION CHAIR 01:00:49 - PRESIDENT TRUMAN SPEAKING ON THE DANGERS OF THE ATOMIC BOMB 01:00:53 - NUCLEAR EXPLOSION. MUSHROOM CLOUD. 01:01:21 - MAP OF POST-WWII, ARROWS FROM SOVIET UNION AND AMERICA REPRESENTING CLASHING OF ATTITUDES 01:02:03 - US FOREIGN POLICY 1945-47. SOLDIERS COMING OFF AIRPLANE. COMING HOME POST-WWII. TEARFUL, HAPPY REUNIONS 01:02:39 - RELIEF SUPPLIES. MEN BRANDING CATTLE, LIVESTOCK WITH USA BRAND. ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE. PEOPLE CROSS NEW BRIDGE STANDING BESIDE DESTROYED BRIDGE. CU SIGN "LT. GEN. LESLEY J. MCNAIR BRIDGE" 01:03:09 - US MILITARY BASES, OCCUPATION TROOPS IN EUROPE SOLDIERS MARCHING WITH BAYONETS. 01:03:30 - FRANCE, PROTEST, PEOPLE PUSHING AND SHOVING CIVIL UNREST. POLICE TRY TO KEEP PEACE. 01:03:48 - VARIOUS POLITICAL OFFICIALS IN MEETINGS AND IN PUBLIC. POST-WAR POLITICS. 01:04:05 - AMERICAN, UNITED STATES AIR CRAFT CARRIERS, MILITARY VESSELS ASEA. 01:04:16 - EXTERIOR: PEOPLE WALK INTO UNITES STATES INFORMATION SERVICE BUILDING. USIS. INTERIOR: PEOPLE READ PAMPHLETS, INFORMATION 01:04:26 - UNITED STATES HIGH MILITARY OFFICIALS PARADE 01:04:41 - MAP OF EASTERN EUROPE. MEDITERRANEAN SEA. TURKEY GREECE. SOVIET UNION. DARDANELLES. BOSPORES. ROUTES FROM SOVIET UNION TO THE SEA 01:05:20 - ZOOM IN GREECE. ATHENS, AEGEAN SEA 01:05:34 - 1944 BRITISH TROOPS, ENGLISH ARMY ARRIVES IN GREECE. GREEKS CELEBRATE IN THE STREETS. POSTER: "WE GREET THE BRAVE ENGLISH ARMY" COALITION GOVERNMENT 01:05:57 - 1946 CIVIL WAR IN GREECE GROUND FIGHTING 01:06:15 - MARCH, 1947 UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT TRUMAN ADDRESSES THE US CONGRESS, REQUESTS MILITARY ASSISTANCE TO THE ANTI-COMMUNIST FORCES. THE TRUMAN DOCTRINE 01:06:51 - CU PRO-COMMUNIST BANNER STALIN. LENIN. SOVIET TROOPS MARCH. STALIN ON BALCONY. 01:07:24 - MAP HIGHLIGHTING UNITED STATES AND SOVIET UNION SUPERIMPOSED, NEWSPAPER ARTICLES PERTAINING TO THE COLD WAR 01:08:21 - NUCLEAR EXPLOSION. MUSHROOM CLOUD 01:08:31 - TAPE ENDS
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1944
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1940s
- File Name: V-2344