The World At War

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Synopsis: The history of WWII starting the precursors of Japan invading China, the Spanish Civil War, Germany invading its neighbors, the Japanese sneak attack at Pearl Harbor, the United States entering the war, U.S. industrial might turns to war and more...(read more)

Date: 1930s-1940s
Duration: 01:08:18
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Type: Public Domain
Language: English
Location: Europe, Pacific

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The World At War

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A flight of planes in the air and the resultant damage to the ships, planes, and facilities at Pearl Harbor after the Japanese bombing attack on December 7, 1941. President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivers his "infamy" war message to Congress where he delivered this statement "yesterday December 7, 1941 a date which will live in infamy".

Sentiments prior to the war are expressed: Presidential hopeful Wendell Willkie speaks for one world, German Bundists meet in Madison Square Garden, laborers fight at various strikes. Scenes of Japanese troops as they invade Manchuria and China in 1931.

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Meeting of the League of Nations. Japanese troops attack and enter Shanghai and then leave Shanghai at the insistence of the League of Nations after signing a truce with China in 1932. Four months later Japanese move further into Mongolia and the League of Nations brand Japan as an aggressor. Japan withdraws from the League of Nations. Japanese Delegates walking out of League after resigning.

Japanese troops move further into China, looting, shelling, and burning. Japanese pilots salute, board planes and make a bombing raid on Chinese defenders. Chinese troops unite under Generalissimo Chaiang Kai-shek and move its army and war industries far into the interior of China. Chinese troops move along the Great Wall of China. In the 1930's few Americans really knew Japan but only as depicted by a peaceful scene of Mount Fiji, cherry trees in bloom, Geisha Girls and peasants in the fields. Ceremonies at a Japanese baseball game, an American game the Japanese played to develop their bodies for war.

The naval, aircraft, tank, and troop military might of the Japanese in the late 1930's largely unknown or ignored by America. Japanese Emperor Hirohito on white horse reviews troops. Italy too had dreams of an Empire. Italian troops march in review, Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini addresses a throng, Italy invades Ethiopia; Emperor Haile Selassi rallies his people. Italy had joined Japan in the partnership of aggression. An Italian representative speaks in Japan. Germany marches into and occupies Austria in March 1938 in a bloodless coup d'etat.

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Fighting and destruction during the Spanish Civil War aided by German and Italian troops. French Prime Minister Edouard Daladier, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, Italian Dictator Benito Mussolini, and German Dictator Adolf Hitler sign the Munich Agreement which gives the Sudetenland to Germany. German troops and Hitler are greeted in the Sudetenland. German troops march into Prague and invade Albania with slight resistance.

Adolf Hitler addresses the Reichstag and ridicules Roosevelt's appeal for peace by naming the countries Germany had occupied. Adolf Hitler confers with Hermann Goring. German Foreign Minister von Ribbentrop meets with Russian diplomats to negotiate the Moscow Pact. Contrasts Germany's military power with that of Poland. German Luftwaffe arms planes to attack Poland. German planes take off, German planes in flight and bombardment of targets in Poland.

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War-torn Poland, refugees take to the roads fleeing the bombing. Warsaw Poland is bombed, burned, and starved into surrender. Throngs of Polish people forced to become Hitler's slave labors. German Dictator Adolf Hitler reviews his troops. Shows ships being sunk in the winter of 1939 and 1940 in the Atlantic. French troops man the Maginot Line.

April 1940 Germany invades Denmark and Norway, Holland, and Belgium in May 1940. German film show the power of the German Army, mechanized big guns, tanks and motorized equipment as the German Army smashes across Holland, Belgium and Luxembourg using modern Blitzkrieg tactics of combined arms. German parachute troops (Fallschirmtruppe) jumping from Luftwaffe planes over Holland. German tanks, Luftwaffe dive bombers, and big guns in action in Holland. Dutch towns and villages in flames, fleeing refugees clog the roads. Destruction of Rotterdamn by the German Luftwaffe.

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Fighting and destruction in the Belgium campaign. Scenes of war refugees fleeing the advancing Nazi Army. Burning oil tanks in Antwerp. Aerial view of Brussels as it is declared an open city with German Troops meeting no resistance. Belgium is doomed. The Anglo-French Army has been driven into the sea.

Scenes at Dunkirk as the British and French troops are evacuated to England. British spitfire planes rise to challenge the German Luftwaffe dive bombers over the beaches of Dunkirk. Plane crashing into the sea and another plane exploding as it hits the ground. German plane dropping bombs on evacuation ships. Close-up as soldiers are loaded onto ships and boats of all kinds. Scenes of military equipment destroyed and abandoned on the beaches of Dunkirk.

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After Holland and Belgium, five German armies fanned out across France as it is attacked on the ground and from the air. Scenes of the French Campaign, big guns firing, Luftwaffe planes dropping bombs, tanks advancing. French cities burning.

The evacuation of children from Paris. The German Army sweeps across France. Four days before Paris falls Italy enters the war. Shows cheering Italian crowd. The Nazi Army enters Paris France passing the Arc de Triomphe. After outflanking the Maginot Line, the German Army makes a direct attack and the Maginot line falls. Giant German railway or railroad gun firing. Scenes at Compiegne France where German Dictator Adolf Hitler accepts the surrender of France in the same railroad car that was used to accepts Germany's surrender in WWI. Shows Adolf Hitler on way to railcar, entering car, interior of railroad car at Compiegne and a jubilant Adolf Hitler after exiting the railroad car where France and Germany signed the formal surrender.

Britain stands alone: British Prime Minister Winston Churchill rallies the British peoples; ships are sunk; London, Plymouth, and Coventry suffer aerial bombardment by the Luftwaffe; shows British people in air raid shelters, Malta is bombed; troops fight in Egypt. Emperor Haile Selassi of Ethiopia is restored.

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Italian POWs in Libya. German Dictator Adolf Hitler with officer of his High Command look at maps and make plans to attack Russia. Russian Dictator Joseph Stalin rallies the Russian peoples. Shows activities in Russia: tank traps built, weapons distributed to civilians, wheat harvested, Russians burned and destroy everything to deprive the Germany Army of any resources as part of a Scorched Earth Policy, complete industrial war plants with workers are moved east to safety.

German forces meet stiff Russian opposition. Shows captured German POWs. Combat in the Philippines. Manila Philippines is bombed. General Douglas MacArthur in the Philippines and in Australia. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs the Lend-Lease Act, U.S. industry turns from peace-time production to war-time production. Scenes of American industry producing weapons for total war and training American fighting men to use them.

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