Public Domain Films And Royalty Free Stock Footage Public Domain Archive Film Stock Footage Library Available in NTSC formats: (24 hr. turn-around) DVCAM $349.00 Beta SP $349.00 MiniDV $349.00 Available in PAL formats: (72 hr. turn-around) DVCAM $549.00 Beta SP $549.00 MiniDV $549.00 DVD-R Time-Code Preview Disc (NTSC): (24 hr. turn-around) DVD-R Preview Disc (NTSC) $35.00 keywords: president woodrow wilson, isolationism, world war I, spanish civil war, president franklin d roosevelt, pearl harbor Synopsis: Compilation of major U.S. events and politics beginning on the eve of World War I and ending with the attack on Pearl Harbor... (read more) Information: 30 min BW COL Show All U.S. Foreign Relations Titles U.S. Foreign Relations - Reluctant World Power Eve of WWI Europe….A civilization at the peak of its power and glory, but divided into two armed camps. United States….A young, dynamic, potential world power, but unwilling to play a power role. Its people and President Woodrow Wilson is determined to remain out of the politics of Europe. June 28, 1914 Austrian Archduke Ferdinand is assassinated. Austria-Hungary declares war on Serbia and Europe plunges into WWI. Former President Theodore Roosevelt denounces President Wilson’s policy of neutrality. Germany declares unrestricted submarine warfare and the Lusitania is sunk (German submarine interior, periscope, torpedo, Lusitania wreckage). President Wilson breaks relations with Germany and asks Congress for declaration of war. Arrival of American troops in Europe are greeted with cheers. American troops in battle (battle field scenes, artillery shell explosions). The Russian Tsar’s government was overthrown (Revolution of 1917). Soon after Russia withdrew from WWI. President Wilson put forth a 14-point proposal for a just and lasting settlement to be enforced by a new world body; The League of Nations. American troops sent to Europe. With fresh American troops advancing Germany is near collapse. The Kaiser is overthrown. The new government signs an armistice. All is finally quite on the Western Front (scenes of rifles & helmets of fallen soldiers). Celebrations….End of World War I. President Wilson arrives in France to attend the Paris Peace Conference in December 1918. 27 nations send delegates, but crucial decisions are made by Wilson, Italian Premier Orlando, French Premier Clemenceau, and British Prime Minster Lloyd George. The Versailles Treaty was signed. President Wilson returns home in hopes of having Congress ratify the treaty and become a memberof the League of Nations. He fails and America returns to its isolation policy of the past. Geneva 1920 the League of Nations meets without the United States in attendance. The war has left Europe deeply in debt to the United States and Germany is expected to pay war repatriations. France occupies the Rohr Valley when Germany defaults. There are riots, border disputes, and little wars. Europe is again in turmoil. In Italy Benito Mussolini becomes dictator and in Germany Hitler began his rise to power. Lenin dies in 1924 and Joseph Stalin comes to power in Russia. The United States is gripped by a depression in 1931 (depression scenes). As the League of Nations meet Japan attacks Manchuria and is branded an aggressor. Japan withdraws from the League. In 1933 an economic collapse brings Hitler to power in Germany. By year-end Germany also withdraws from the League. Mussolini invades Ethiopia and civil war erupts in Spain. Anti-war signs appear in national magazines in America. President Roosevelt FDR gave “I hate war” speech in his 1936 campaign. Japan invades China and Japanese aircraft attack and sink the U.S.S. Panay. 1938 Hitler sends troops into Austria, Czechoslovakia is next. British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain meets with Hitler. Germany invades Poland and then the Nazi Army sweeps into the lowlands and into Paris. William Allen White, Kansas newspaper editor, organizes “Committee To Defend America”. America starts a Lend Lease program to aid Britain and then Russia. The “America First Committee” is formed to oppose involvement in the war. Charles Lindberg and other celebrities are involved. Wendell Wilkie speaks in favor of involvement. Germany attacks Russia. President Roosevelt places trade restrictions on Japan and then freezes assets as Japan occupies French Indochina. Japan sends envoy to Washington. On December 1st a Japanese task force is ordered to proceed to Hawaii. On December 7th a full scale attack is ordered. America is at war! 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