Compilation of major World events and Politics as WWII ends and the Cold War between Democracy and Communism as Communists annex a large swath of Europe, NATO is formed in response, war by proxy erupts in China, Korea, Vietnam and Africa, the death of Joseph Stalin, the Space Race begins with Sputnik, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the death of President John F. Kennedy, the Vietnam War, the Fall of Saigon, war in the Middle East and the OPEC oil embargo 00:06:05;13 Sign reads Russian Zone. Russian Dictator JosephStalin institutes a blockade of West Berlin blocking railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control. Scenes of the Berlin airlift as planes deliver thousands of tons of food and fuel to West Berlin forcing Stalin to lift the blockade. The Berlin Blockade was one of the first international crises of the Cold War lasting from June 24, 1948 until May 12,1949. 00:06:38;10 1949 the North Atlantic Treaty Organization NATO is formed. General Dwight D. Eisenhower returns to Europe as Supreme Commander of NATO Forces and began re-building the West military strength. By 1952 the Marshall Plan resulted in increasing the industrial and agricultural capacity of Western Europe that exceeded pre-war levels. Scenes of steel production, women working in a factory, shoppers in a super market and a farmer plowing a field with a tractor. 00:07:28;02 Scenes of violence in Asia. In China, civil war follows in the wake of WWII. In 1949 Mao Zedong Mao Tse-tung launches an all-out assault on the forces of Chan Kai-shek. CU image of Chinese communist leader Mao Zedong Mao Tse-tung. CU of Chan Kai-shek. The Kuomintang KMT government and 1.3 million supporters of Chan Kai-shek abandon the China mainland for the Island of Taiwan Formosa. Image of the U.S. Capitol Building. Image of Secretary of State George Marshall and Dean Acheson. Congress blames Truman, Marshall, and Acheson for the lost of China. News that the Russians now have the Atomic Bomb leads to a series of spy cases. CU of Senator Joseph McCarthy as he states One Communist on the faculty of one university is one Communist too many, one Communist among the American advisors at Yalta is one Communist too many, and even if there were only one Communist in the State Department, that would be one Communist too many. 00:08:53;05 Start of Korean War June 25, 1950. North Korean Army crosses the 38th parallel in an invasion of South Korea. United Nation UN Forces fighting in Korea. General Douglas MacArthur seated in a jeep. Tank passes sign that reads You Are Now Crossing 38th Parallel. U.S. paratroopers jumping from a plane. Shows Chinese Troops entering the battle in Korea. Signing of Korean Armistice Agreement on July 27, 1953. Brief images of the Indochina War, French forces fight the communist Viet Minh. After the defeat of the French, Secretary John Foster Dulles organizes the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization SEATO. United States aid for developing countries.

b&w newsreel - WWI - World War One - battles - trench warfare - fighting - medics - Famous 75s in action at Les Cotes de Forimont - France - bombs are shelled - tanks advance - roll over embankment and through artillery fire

Shot on 16mm film in Kabul, Herat, Kandahar, Spinbuldak, and the Afghan countryside in 1987, this film is a look at the *other* side of the war in Afghanistan - the Communist government and its supporters. It is not only the sole documentary on the Afghan communist side of the war, but it shows how the war looked to the Afghan middle class, to educated Afghan women, to the army officers who led the Soviet-inspired ""revolution"", and to the khans (""feudal landlords"") and villagers of the Afghan countryside. The film includes an interview with two captured Taliban guerillas in the Kandahar prison, as well as a Mujahedeen attack on an Afghan army outpost, and a rare public interview with then-President Najibullah The outtakes are also available for licensing. 00:00:00>>>Dog fights in Kabul. Referee blows whistle, dogs fight. 02:46:00>>>views of city of Kabul , people washing before prayer 03:06:00>>>people praying outside mosque, blind beggar at gate, entering mosque 03:23:00>>>Soviet convoy (National Police called ""Sarandoy"") drive along road, sheep herd on side of road - trucks and tanks. Convoy pulls up to desert station outside Kabul. They come from the Soviet border bringing goods. Afghani soldier interviewed. Explains he brings goods to Kabul 05:33:00>>>unloading sacks from truck. Afghani says he brings food, clothes and other supplies. He is asked if he saw the enemy along the way. He says yes we saw them and sometimes we have to fight them. 06:05:00>>>Afghani military colonel answers that the Afghani ""Sarandoy"" bring in the supplies not the Soviets. See cu of Soviet labels on sacks of food. 00:0>>>Translator says Our government (afghani) announced a policy of national reconciliation and asked the opposition to participate in a coalition government. He says the reactionary countries which help our enemies should stop helping them. Then the refugees will return home: When asked what will happen if this does not happen the Aftghani military colonel replies: The war will continue and those responsible will be the reactionary forces, not us. 00:07:23>>>Afghani troops run in desert to position, cu inside Afghani tank with soldier looking out , troops jump into tank, tanks firing in desert 00:08:07>>>Military colonel explains this is weapons drill The weapons and tanks are all Soviet. (see Afghani soldiers loading rifles ). Colonel says he studied in Soviet Union in the tank academy. Colonel says his army is ready at any time and can protect its April revolution 00:08:47>>>Propaganda board with Soviet leaflets and booklets 00:08:54>>>Colonel - when Soviets withdraw we can protect our motherland and our April revolution and its goals 00:09:04>>>photo Zahir Shah, King of Afghanistan until 1973 00:09:08>>>Afghan Army colonel interviewd ""under the monarchy when Zahir Shah ruled us people were exploited. There was no freedom.We wanted to change the feudal system we lived under.To build a new society based on freedom. Where men are friends, equal, not master and servant. 00:09:25>>>views of Afghani men sitting in desert preparing and drinking tea. Colonel says come and drink tea with us. The men say they are drinking green tea. When asked if they are satisfied with their life, they say they are happy. I have bread, work and tea right now and that is enough for us. 00:09:59>>>ws of desert village built into side of mountain 00:10:08>>>Military colonel says when I was studying in the military school, I travelled alot in foreign countries and there I saw how people live... 00:10:15>>>ws. Tashkent city in Russia - two large buildings with banners on each - one of Lenin and one of Stalin (?) various views of modern city 00:10:59>>>Kabul - people walking in street, horse drawn carts, boy on bicycle. Shot of poor woman sitting outside tent - PAN to 3 children and ZOOM OUT to show refugee area where many tents are set up and they live in poverty.We are poor people who travel in the shadows. We are from Kohistan in the North. Man says that there is too much trouble in Kabul so they will stay where they are for now. ""You know, those people in the mountians, the Mujahadeen, they want bribes from us and they take our things- we are afraid of them and that is why we came here....we are not with either the Mujahadeen or the government. We are just poor people"". 00:11:43>>>view of Afghan Military Academy - troops marching in open square and ZOOM IN to MS of them marching in formation. Soviet propaganda posters on huge bulletin board. Hear VO of man saying ""when I came back from abroad I was in the army in the technical academy. We saw the situation in the Army and started to talk among the officers. The other officers and soldiers believed us.We wanted a new kind of armybased on new principles....we returned from the Soviet Union united and after the revolution we made a new society (see imges of Soviet and Afghani soldiers shaking hands with hammer and sickle above them, pictures of Lenin on wall of Afghan Military Academy classroom. See teacher at chalk board teaching students at a Soviet boarding school. Map of world see on wall showing points where Russian language is spoken around the world. 00:13:11>>>interview with teacher. He says he is an Afghan who studied in the Soviet Union. 00:13:31>>>Teacher explains in VO why the Afghan army studies Russian. He says ""It is obvious - first thing is it is good neighborly relations with soviet union and our people want to know the language of our Northern neighbor. and we are using the experience of our Soviet comrades and friends. Soviet advisors work with us and we ask them for help and resolve our problems together with them. (footage shows Afghan military training exercises at a Military Academy) 00:14:07>>>Teacher (soldier) expalins he has a Russian wife (video inside their apartment where she is preparing food in the kitchen. ) 00:14:16>>>Old man sitting by himself on concrete slab in city - where he is selling rugs which are displayed in the limbs of nearby tree and PAN across to apartment complex where teacher lives. 00:14:39>>>Interview inside teacher's apartment. He says"" I worked a lot in Soviet Union... I felt very free there. I worked on all kinds of jobs there. I never felt restricted and that I could not travel around there. views inside his apartment, two sons studying , baby in crib 00:13:32>>>He goes on to say that he was brought up a Muslim and when asked if he still practices he gets very uncomfortable and says that that is a very ticklish question. views of the family sitting together in living room. Children say they speak Russian and Farci. See footage of the children at school. One of the boys says he wants to stay in Afghanistan, the other wants to live in Soviet Union. More classroom where children are being taught Russian by Russian woman teacher 00:16:10>>>Teacher interviewed and says that she loves the Russian language and sees it as an international language and that is why she is teaching it in Afghanistan. 00:16:40>>>Tashkent Medical University - scenes inside hospital where Afghani students are learning medical skills. Young woman medical student is interviewed and describes the advanced medical equipment in Soviet Union and explains what the equipment is and does. BOth men and women students. Woman student goes on to explain that the Soviets give special attention to them even over Soviet students because they will be the people who will help to build a new Afghanistan. Several of the Afghani women medical students say that their work is first and they would not give up their careers for marriage and stay at home if demanded by their husbands. 00:19:40>>>interview with woman from Literacy school in Kabul. She says"" Islam has made education aduty for all Muslims - men and women. SInce the people of Afghanistan are Muslim they should study. (Views of woman teaching a group of women whoseheads are draped in white scarves) In Islam there are no limits on learning and today we have better educational systems. Good shots of men and women reading and studying. GOod close shots. 00:20:22>>>Woman teacher (dressed in western clothese) says : We are Muslim and we belive there is no difference between men and women 00:19:00>>>more views of people studying. Young woman interviewed who says' THe revolution is for us so that more people can study. Before the revolution we had to wear a veil, but now we can wear whatever we want. 00:19:15>>>young boys and girls play outside in schoolyard. Various shots of people, landscape, buildings 01:21:41>>>shots of ""Caravan of Peace"" - a village in Kabul province. views of town. Group of musicians singing in town square - people gathered around. Doctor attending to people. Male Dancer performs for people who are gathered - twirls like whirling dervish 00:22:42>>>soldier says that people in Afghanistan wish for peace. What more do we need? He is dressed in Soviet type uniform. He says the enemy does not accept peace. They make friends with the Imperialists. They are their puppets. VIews of older men in audience. More of dancer doing various contortions with his body (feet behind head and spinning round etc.) 00:24:06>>>Soviet commander talking to assembled crowd of Afghani's. He says your country is going through hard times. The Soviet Union is giving you free material and medical aid. We travel around Kabul and see that the Afghan people see what we are doing. (Views of crowd, good cu old men, cu of young man fingering prayer beads, old man receiving sack of food, women in burqa, unloading various supplies and handing out to people 00:25:31>>>truck convoy in Maivan District, Kandahar Province, various trucks Truck with people - refugees returning. THey say they are returning home because of policy of national reconciliation. See busloads of families - contains 50 families. The returning refugees say that the Soviet for

Sherman tanks being assembled at Pullman Standard Car Manufacturing Company in Hammond, IN

Sampling survey after Trinity nuclear test, July 1945. Footage of soldiers collecting samples during a survey of the Trinity nuclear test. This site was where the world's first atomic bomb was detonated in the desert near Alamogordo Air Base, New Mexico, USA, at 05:29 local time on 16 July 1945. This test was part of the Manhattan Project carried out by the USA during World War II. The test, codenamed 'Trinity', used plutonium, and had an explosive power equivalent to 21,000 tons of TNT. The flash from the explosion could be seen 640 kilometres away, and the shock wave was felt 80 kilometres away. The mushroom cloud reached a height of 12 kilometres. This test was followed later that year by the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan.

Nazi Germany parade; Saddam Hussein of Iraq talks with generals in military garb and beret; Hussein in crowd of soldiers; Hussein walks down stairs with military guys; Soldiers in chemical suits and masks handle a bomb shell; Title sequence; Iranian soldiers in Tehran hospital with chemical skin burns and major injuries from mustard gas poisoning, many with welts and discolored skin; Nurse feeds man with chemical injuries; Commentator; Chemical victims in hospital; Iranian troops and tanks on the move; Commentary; Civilian crowds in Iraq march in favor of Hussein - hold up pictures of Hussein; Hussein gets out of Mercedes; Satellite images of Samarra area in Iraq and alleged chemical weapons facility; Commentary; Diagram of chemical facility with arrows; Commentary on western assistance; Iraqi chemical plant - CU of pipes; Barrels with chemicals; Computer screens and numbers; Scenic shots of Holland; Belgian chemical plant; American and Belgian flags; Truck carries chemicals; Still shot of chemical bomb shell; Quick shots of presumably dead soldiers from chemical attack; Men in chemical suits and masks examine a chemical shell in the desert with Spanish markings; CU of pouring oily brown mustard liquid from a shell into a bottle; Sick Iranian soldier tells of chemical bomb; Men with mustard gas symptoms; World War I scenes; Iranian troops suffer, one with tubes in nose; Secret National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq's desire to acquire nerve agents with graphics; Soldier in protective gear blasts foghorn to warn of nerve agents in a drill; Soldiers in woods put on gas masks and hoods to sound of alarm; CU of army man in gas mask with filter; Man analyzes nerve agents in field; Simulation of nerve agent attack - troops cover and carry a "victim" of nerve gas; Man points out stickiness of nerve agents; Cruel nerve agent tests done on a rabbit and goats; CU of technical journals with nerve agent instructions; Animation of nerve agent plant at Samarra; Frankfurt scenery; Pesticide equipment including piping and centrifuges; KLM cargo warehouse at JFK Airport with shots of metal drums or potassium fluoride headed for Baghdad; Scenic shots of Nashville; EXT of Westpark corporate headquarters; Businessman speaks; Businessman denies knowledge of Iraqi chemical warfare program and his company's cooperation - businessman asks reporter to leave; Iranian television shots from 1984 of United Nations investigation team in Iran to verify use of chemical weapons by Iraq - men with yellow gloves; Chemical or fuel trucks; Man inspects papers; Security entry gates; Chemical formulas on paper; Soldiers fire cannons in battle; Animation of weapons production lines; Holland scenics (with fountains); Chemical facility with pipes and storage tanks; Chemical trucks on a European highway; Gondola boats in canals and Venice scenics (Italy); Tanker sails out of harbor; Street scene in The Hague; Aerial of Montreal skyline; Exteriors of buildings and apartments in Montreal; Street sign reading "Place Frontier"; American soldiers in gas masks and protective gear and camouflage fatigues are forced to taste riot gas - the troops yell, cry, and spit in obvious pain; World map with countries either possessing or manufacturing chemical weapons; Israeli film of civilians training to survive poison gas attack - including showers; Arms control talks in Geneva; Military tanks in desert; Saddam Hussin with Iraqi troops in a bunker views explosions; Map of Iraq including Baghdad, Samarra, Al Fallujah, Salman Pak; Black and white film of military training exercises (involving hallucinogenic drugs) including man slowly climbing over hurdles; Stockpiles of American VX gas nerve agents in desert; CU of VX gas canister; Iraqi soldiers hold up two fingers to symbolize victory; Gruesome shots of dead Iranian troops lying on a shore; CU of hand grenade and dead soldier; Satellite imagery mixed with victims of chemical attacks

00:00:00:00 - President Vladimir Putin was due to depart to the scene of an historic World Wa r II tank battle in Russia's Kursk region on Monday, one day after being sworn into office in the Kre ...

B&W film, 1926. Land mines are tested against tanks at Camp Meade, Maryland. Exact date of filming unknown.

[DT] Officers consult map and one climbs aboard a tank and drives off.

A montage from World War I, including soldiers, tanks and ships.

[Henry Wallace Speech]

United States 26th Infantry troops gather around tanks for tank instruction, during World War I, in France. One appears to be a British Mk IV. Also visible are two French Renault FT tanks. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1) Location: France. Date: 1918.

World War One. French Renault FT tank reverses out of a trench. U.S. tank driver poses by Renault tank (film is damaged). Two British Medium Mk A (Whippet) tanks move along road with damaged village in background. (World War I; World War 1; WWI; WW1) Location: France. Date: 1918.

2:23 ""Trip to Japan"" by Jane Aaron. Aaron takes us to see Japan. 7:36 Jon Woronoff commentary by Eddie Becker. Woronoff, an author and businessman, talks about foreigners' misconceptions about Japan. ""The reason foreigners are fooled about Japan is because there are two levels of perception in Japan. One is called ""tatumai"" and it means ""illusion,"" or what one likes to consider things being. The other is called ""honei"" and it means ""truth,"" or the way things actually are in practice. When the Japanese speak to foreigners they speak ""tatamai"" - they say that things look better than they really are, that everything in Japan is harmonious, tranquil and peaceful. When they speak to Japanese, they speak ""honei"" - that is, they speak the truth and this is the way it is in their written articles and in the television media."" 10:50 ""The Zenshuji Zendeko Drummers"" by Nancy Cain. A team of Japanese boys play drums in Los Angeles. 11:13 ""Japanese-American Internment."" A look back at the internment of Japanese-Americans during World War II. Featuring a vintage propaganda film starring Ronald Reagan and later footage of him offering reparations to the victims of internment. Frank Emi remembers this dark period of American history. ""Our Civil Rights were stripped away even though Naval Intelligence and FBI had completely cleared Japanese-Americans of any espionage."" He remembers that even liberal politicians like Earl Warren jumped on the bandwagon. ""Reagan's pardon took over 40 years...it took too long!"" yes, but you'd have to research the propaganda film 16:19 ""The Zenshuji Zendeko Drummers ""by Nancy Cain. 23:18 ""Trip to Japan ""by Jane Aaron. In Hiroshima, Aaron searches for a Western-style toilet. 25:44 Paul Igasaki commentary by Eddie Becker. Igasaki warns of a resurgence of anti-Japanese prejudice or ""Japan bashing"" in the United States. 27:44 May 1990 commercial by the Tri-State Pontiac Dealers Association urging Americans not to buy Japanese cars. 2 8:15 Paul Igasaki commentary by Eddie Becker. Igasaki shows us examples of anti-Japanese imagery in American advertising. 29:42 Oklahoma commercial. Businessmen from Chickasha, OK, advertise free land to Japanese businessmen to move an industry to their town. 30:32 Jon Woronoff continues to dispel myths about Japan. ""Not all Japanese companies offer lifetime employment, only the large Japanese companies don't lay off workers. Small companies, on the other hand, have to fire massive numbers of people."" 32:07 Ralph Nader commentary by Eddie Becker. Nader decries the failure of American capitalism. ""In 1980, the top executives of Fortune 300 companies were earning forty-five times what entry level employees were earning. Today it's ninety times as much. In Japan, the head of Toyota earns eight times what an assembly plant worker earns. We've had a massive failure of our managerial class here in the U.S."" 32:38 Images from Japanese automated assembly lines. 40:00 Japanese girl eats in some sort of a petting zoo. 40:43 ""Doug Michels on Japanese TV."" Michels is seen on Japanese TV talking about his projects such as Cadillac Ranch, an art piece done by The Ant Farm, and Bluestar, a futuristic think tank in space, and a proposal for a 50's-style theme park, Cadillac Fin, in Japan. ? 49:29 ""Trip to Japan"" by Jane Aaron. Public transportation. 49:50 More Jon Woronoff commentary. ""The worst New York subway situation is nothing compared to Japan. In Japan , the subways are filled to four or five times capacity. They actually have ""pushers"" - people who push passengers into the trains. It's mind-boggling. Japanese people travel this way day in and day out. Americans couldn't stand it. They would get claustrophobic."" 51:54 ""Trip to Japan - Peace Park in Hiroshima"" by Jane Aaron. Over visuals of Hiroshima's Memorial Park, Harry S. Truman's voice explains the dropping of the Atom bomb. ""I never had any qualms about it. I wanted to end the war in victory with the least possible loss of U.S. lives. The bomb was just another piece of artillery, and as Napoleon once said, 'The Lord is on the side with the heaviest artillery.'"" Truman's nonchalance is contrasted heavily with the testimonial of a Japanese woman describing the death of their countrymen from radiation poisoning. probably. Ask us first. 54:49 Ronald Reagan acts in more U.S. government industrial films. 55:47 ""The Zenshuji Zendeko Drummers"" by Nancy Cain plays under credits.

00:00:00:00 [Historical footage of WWII ctst Natl Archives]---RG200 VOLUME 17 REL 291 2. 5. 7. 9.--WS troops on road/ QS troops in trenches (Anzio Italy)/ QS soldiers at outpost/ VS soldiers on ...

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MLS of twin engine biplane taxiing away, taking off in the distance, visitors watching and waving in foreground. Sequence showing visitors and officers examining British Army tanks, of tank moving laboriously towards and past camera.

Soldiers and a British Mark IV tank on the battlefields in France during WWI.

b&w newsreel - mos - WWI - World War One - The Great War - title card With the Germans advancing rapidly toward the Marne and headed directly for Paris by May 19, 1918 the French people are thrown into consternation and find themselves fleeing to safety further south - civilian French citizens walk on dirt road with wagons full of personal belongings - soldiers in trucks go by - soldiers in trenches - soldiers on the ground with machine guns - tanks fire - more explosions - soldiers put on gas masks & helmets - refugees - war