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Aftermath Of World War II
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keywords: post wwii, cold war, surrender ceremonies uss missouri, nazi concentration camp, president harry s. truman, unrra, united nations, elbe river meet, u.s. foreign relations, atomic bomb explosion
Synopsis: Documents the period and events between the end of WWII in 1945 and the change in the United States Foreign Policy with the Truman Doctrine of containment of Communist expansion in 1947 that sets the stage for the Cold War...(read more)
- Date: 1940's-1950's
- Duration: 00:24:03
- Sound: Yes
- Color: Monochrome
- Type: Public Domain
- Language: English
- Location: World
Aftermath Of World War II
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Japanese surrender ceremonies on USS Missouri September 2, 1945. General MacArthur spoke the following words "major warring powers, to conclude a solemn agreement whereby peace may be restored. The issues have been determined on the battlefields of the world. Let us pray that peace now be restored to the world and that God will preserve it always".
USS Missouri, crowds of sailors on USS Missouri watching Japanese surrender ceremonies.
00:01:05;13
End of World War Two. Scenes depicting the end of WWII. Rubble in city in Japan, survivor of Nazi concentration camp being placed on stretcher, German soldiers with hands raised in surrender, Nazi German eagle symbol blown from building.
00:01:36;01
On may 8, 1945, President Harry Truman made a broadcast from the White House announcing the surrender of Germany. Flags of freedom flying all over Europe in celebration of VE-Day. People waving from windows of buildings, crowds of people waving flags, people dancing in the street. Woman riding on top of jeep.
00:02:36;17
Civilians and other survivors of WWII. Starving people living in the rubble of buildings and squalor. Dirty children living in dirt and filth. CU of young boy in ragged clothes as he receives food in a bucket.
00:03:04;10
Images of displaced persons. Repatriation of displaced persons used as slave laborers by the Nazis. Shows trucks loaded with displaced persons leaving Germany.
00:03:16;03
CU, crate of supplies marked UNRRA (United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration was created to plan and administer relief for victims of war in any area under the control of the United Nation. War victims receiving blankets and food. Bodies of the dead that died in WWII.
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San Francisco Conference April 25-June 16, 1945. Delegates of fifty nations met in San Francisco between April 25 and June 26, 1945 and discussed the Dumbarton Oaks proposals, the Yalta Agreement, and amendments proposed by various Governments, and developed the Charter of the United Nations and the Statute of the New International Court of Justice.
The Charter was passed unanimously and signed by all the representatives. It came into force on October 24, 1945. Images of various delegates signing the United Nations Charter.
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President Harry Truman at the closing session of the United Nations Conference in San Francisco on June 26, 1945 said "If we had had this Charter a few years ago-and above all, the will to use it--millions now dead would be alive. If we should falter in the future in our will to use it, millions now living will surely die".
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Nuremberg Trials held in Nuremberg, Germany. The defendants were charged with conspiracy to permit crimes against humanity in the course for preparation of war and in the course of the prosecution of the war. Justice Robert Jackson opens the first trial in history for crimes against the peace of the world. War crime film evidence of bodies in trench and other horrific scenes at German concentration camps.
00:07:10;11
Nationalism swept the Colonial Empires of Asia seeking equal rights and self determination. Protest marches, riots, guerrilla warfare, and passive resistance.
00:09:08;10
Breakup of the Grand Alliance of Great Britain, United States, and Russia. At the end of WWII the United States was the richest country on earth with cities that had escaped the destruction caused by war. New York City skyline in 1945. U.S. supermarket well stocked with food.
00:09:23;11
Soviet Union (Russia) in 1945. The Soviet Union (Russia) lay in ruins and had suffered more causalities than all other nations combined. Destroyed buildings in a Russian city. Low aerial view of Russian countryside. General Eisenhower reported there was not a standing house between the western borders of Russia all the way to the area around Moscow.
00:10:05;15
U.S. Forces and Soviet Forces (Russian) meet at the Elbe River on April 27, 1945. Poster reads reads "East Meets West". Image of British Prime Minster Winston Churchill, American President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Russian Premier Joseph Stalin at the Yalta Conference. The Big Three at Yalta where it was agreed Russia would extend its sphere of influence in Eastern Europe, but could not agree on the future of Poland. Poland became the first of the causes which led to the breakdown of the Grand Alliance of Britain, United States and Russia in WW2. The break-up of the Grand Alliance would lead to the official Western policy of Communist Containment and the Cold War.
00:11:31;22
President Harry Truman at Potsdam Conference. Images of President Truman, British Prime Minster Clement Attlee and Premier Joseph Stalin at the Potsdam Conference.
00:12:05;17
Animated map illustrates and defines the dividing of Germany into four zones of occupation as agreed to at Potsdam. Berlin was deep within the Soviet (Russian) zone under the joint rule of the four occupying powers. Sign that reads "You Are Leaving The American Sector" in English, Russian, and French.
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Allied Control Council established by the Potsdam Agreement to provide centralized administrative and economic control of Germany.
00:13:07;23
Paris Peace Conference, July 29 to October 15, 1946, resulted in peace treaties with Italy and the Communist satellite countries. The treaties were eventually signed in February 1947.
00:13:35;15
Polish election poster. Shows wagon flying the Polish flag, and loaded with Polish citizens, traveling along a road. Images of first election in Poland after WWII. Shows Polish citizens voting.
00:14:28;15
An Animated 1947 map showed the Russian (Soviet Union) satellite countries or buffer states, except Czechoslovakia, that separated the Soviet Union from Western Europe. Winston Churchill coined the phase Iron Curtain. Churchill said in a speech "From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent."
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United Nations (UN) in 1946. Countries from both sides of the Iron Curtain meet at the UN where they frequently clash. Shows Russian UN delegation walking out of UN in protest in the Spring of 1946 when the UN Security Council voted to consider a complaint made by Iran against the Soviet Union.
The Soviet Union rejected the United States control of atomic energy. Image of President Truman stating "The Atomic bomb is too dangerous to be loose in a lawless world." Image of atomic bomb explosion.
00:16:55;00
United States Foreign Policy 1945-1947. American soldiers returning home from WWII. Soldiers of the 82nd Airborne Division disembarking from the RMS Queen Mary in New York City January 12, 1946.
00:17:35;10
Relief efforts by the United States after WW2. Congress voted large sums for economic aid to the countries outside the Soviet block of countries. Economic assistance became a weapon in the struggle between the Soviet Communist countries and the free countries of western Europe.
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Communist inspired protests in France and Italy after WWII. The United States expanded its global presence and commitments. Images of the United states Information Services (U.S.I.S) to combat Soviet propaganda.
00:19;37;14
Animated map showing the sea route through the strategic Dardanelles and The Bosporus from the the Black sea to the Mediterranean Sea. Whoever controls Turkey controls the Dardanelles and The Bosporus. The Western countries viewed Russian designs on Turkey and Greece as further evidence of Soviet Imperialism.
00:20:29;18
When British troops first arrived in Greece in 1944 Greece had been torn by civil war. Britain gave support to the Right Wing force against the Communist forces and restored order. Greek civil war in 1946. The British decision to withdraw its troops from Greece force the United States to act. President Truman addressing Congress on March 12, 1947. Congress approved the Truman Doctrine sending both Military and economic aid to Greece and Turkey. Historians consider the Truman Doctrine, containment policy to stop expansion of Communism, the start of the Cold War.
00:21:58;00
Soviet soldiers march in review. Image of Joseph Stalin on review stand. The stage was now set for a new kind of war, the Cold War. Atomic Bomb explosion and rising mushroom cloud.
- Related Titles:
- Alliance For Peace
- In Defense Of Peace
