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Prelude To War
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keywords: wwii, nazi party, adolph hitler, benito mussolini, hirohito, invasion of china, invasion of europe, aftermath pearl harbor attack, nazi swastika, goose-step march, league of nations
Synopsis: The rise of military dictatorships in Germany, Italy and Japan and the first events leading to WWII in Europe and Asia while the United States drifts towards isolationism...(read more)
- Date: 1942
- Duration: 00:52:54
- Sound: Yes
- Color: Monochrome
- Type: Public Domain
- Language: English
- Location: United States, Germany, Italy, Japan
Prelude To War: Reel-1
WWII Military Parade. Brief scenes of military action taken by Germany and Japan as a prelude to America entering World War Two (WWII). Aftermath of the attack on Pearl Harbor, fires in London, German Army invasion of France, Japanese invasion of China, German Troops overrunning Czechoslovakia, Norway, Poland, Holland, Greece, Belgium, Albania, Yugoslavia, and attack on Russia. This is a fight between a free world and a slave world. Shows political unrest and results of high unemployment in Italy. Early images of Benito Mussolini in Italy, Adolph Hitler in Germany, and powerful industrialist in Germany.
Prelude To War: Reel-2
Shows Hirohito, Emperor of Japan and important political and military Japanese leaders. Shows Nazi marching in German, Fascist in Italy, military army in Japan. Still photo of Hirohito, Hitler, and Mussolini. Hitler speaking at Nazi rally, Mussolini on balcony, warlords of Japan. Newspaper headline "Hitler Executes More Anti-Nazi Leaders". German leaders attack the church. "The Christian Cross is to be removed from all churches and cathedrals and is to be replaced by the immortal symbol of German, the swastika". Images of attacks and newspaper headlines of destruction of Churches and church leaders in Germany in the 1930's.
Prelude To War: Reel-3
Students in Germany, Italy, and Japan schools sing praise of Hitler, Mussolini, and Hirohito. Legions of the Youth Movements marching in Germany, marching in Japan, and marching in Italy. Goose step march German soldiers, faces of the German people. In America Conferences were held and treaties were signed to limit the size of naval forces and a pact to abolish war as a means of settling differences. Shows American naval ships being sunk (scrapped) to honor the treaty. The mood of America in 1939 was avoid war through isolation.
People speak out in a Pathe News Poll, no foreign entanglement. Pickets march in front of White House. Newspaper headlines "Congress Passes Wage Bill", Social Security Law Goes Into Effect". Young men working on CCC projects and Federal work programs. Aerial view of interstate highway interchange and a cloverleaf.
Prelude To War: Reel-4
Americans were put to work building dams and bringing electricity to millions. Shows a large hydro-electric dam, electrical transmission lines and towers. Shows books being burned in Germany. Young boys singing in a church choir in America. Kids on playground gym set, seesaw, sliding board, swing, drawing pictures, skating, and a boy pumping up bicycle tire. Shows young boys in Germany, Japan, and Italy doing military activities.
German, Italian, and Japanese military parades all designed to tell their people they would rule the world and the Pacific is ours. Map illustrates the countries Mussolini wanted to be under Fascist control, countries to be enslaved by the Japanese as set down in The Tanaka Memorial, and countries Hitler wanted under his control.
Prelude To War: Reel-5
Shows Admiral Yamamoto, Commander In Chief of the Japanese Navy in 1941 in which he wrote "when war comes between Japan and the United States I look forward to dictating the peace terms in the White House in Washington". From Berlin, Rome, and Tokyo came a stream of propaganda and lies to confuse and divide the world. Shows the largest war machine the world had ever known to the German people and the world. 1931 Japan invades and occupies Manchuria, League condemns Japan, Japanese delegation walks out of League of Nations.
Prelude To War: Reel-6
Phase 2 of the Tanaka plan was conquest of China. Shows Japanese naval bombardment and aerial bombing of Shanghai in a surprise attack. People fleeing the explosions, bodies of dead and wounded Chinese in the streets. Japanese land and fight their way into the city. Shows Chiang Kai-Shek. Chinese troops march along the Great Wall of China.
Mussolini moves army through the Suez Canal to invade Abyssinia, now Ethiopia, Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia appears before the League of Nations appealing for help, Ethiopian native leaders come before the Emperor to pledge their allegiance. The Italian Army used artillery and planes to conquer Ethiopia. Franklin Roosevelt condemns the actions of Mussolini. Shows burning huts in Ethiopia. Scene of Hitler and Mussolini in a jovial mood.
