1944 - Arseny Zverev, Russia's Minister of Finance, addresses the Supreme Soviet where Joseph Stalin and Vyacheslav Molotov are in attendance.
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1943 - Madame Chiang Kai-Shek visits her alma mater, Wellesley College on commencement day.
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1930s - In this Frank Capra documentary, the Great Wall of China is highlighted as having effectively kept out invaders in ancient times, and Japanese forces must get creative to conquer the country in WWII (narrated in 1944).
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1941 - In this Frank Capra documentary, German and Russian soldiers fight for Sevastopol, Russia (narrated in 1943).
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1941 - In this Frank Capra documentary, Russian soldiers march through Moscow (narrated in 1943).
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1944 - American soldiers survey the damage done to harbors in war-torn Cherbourg.
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1944 - The Tuskegee Airmen bomb Orsgona, Italy.
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1939 - In this Frank Capra documentary narrated by Walter Huston, citizens of Danzig, Poland attempt to fortify their city against Hitler's invading forcs (narrated in 1943).
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1945 - In this documentary directed by Frank Capra, the Revolutionary War battles of Valley Forge and Yorktown are briefly re-enacted, and the Constitution's aims described (narrated by Walter Huston).
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1930s - In this Frank Capra documentary, Chinese leaders such as Chiang Kai-Shek give rousing speeches to a unified China, encouraging support for the war against Japan (narrated in 1944).
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1930s - When Japanese forces attack, Chinese civilians evacuate to the island that will become known as Taiwan.
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1938 - Czech troops withdraw from Sudetenland, and injured soldiers are seen.
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1945 - Russian armored division and rocket launchers on US Army lend-lease trucks are driven in a May Day Parade through Moscow's Red Square.
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1942 - In this animated film, Elmer Fudd sings a patriotic version of "O Susanna" as he walks through the desert looking for gold.
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1940s - Leonard Ware records a song at a WQXR radio station for the Food for Victory campaign.
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1941 - Airplane engines are turned out at the Allison Airplane Motor Plant in Indianapolis, Indiana for America and the war effort in Britain.
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1943 - Chinese air cadets receive training from US Army Air Force aviation schools in America.
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1940s - Cranes move along railroad tracks at a defense plant, and workers leave for the day.
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1943 - In this Frank Capra documentary, allied troops march and sing in support of Russia.
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1942 - A captured Japanese sub is brought to San Francisco's Chinatown as a war trophy, and a dragon dance is part of the celebration.
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1943 - American and Australian forces engage in jungle warfare against the Japanese in New Guinea.
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1940 - American expatriates ordered to return home wait at the Embassy in France.
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1945 - Britons celebrate the end of the war in the streets outside Chinatown in London, England.
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1938 - People dig trenches in preparation for air raids in London, England, and men march to enlist.
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1946 - Civilians in Tokyo and Yokohama, Japan struggle to get enough food and rebuild shelter after the devastation of war.
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1945 - The US Army continues to develop sneak craft and sneak craft detection technology to stay ahead of its enemy counterparts.
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1958 - The USS Enterprise, a major vessel for allied victory in WWII, heads for the scrap heap as it has become obsolete in the atomic age.
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1941 - In this Frank Capra documentary, Russian soldiers are able to keep Moscow from occuping German forces (narrated in 1943).
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1930s - In this Frank Capra documentary narrated by Walter Huston, the League of Nations condemns Japan's invasion of Manchuria but can't get civilians across the world to care, thus ultimately ensuring our entry into WWII (narrated in 1942).
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1930s - In this Frank Capra documentary, Chinese men, women and youth are trained to join the armed forces (narrated in 1944).
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1944 - In this Frank Capra documentary, Madame Chiang Kai-Shek addresses Congress and soldiers of China's National Revolutionary Army are seen marching and singing.
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1940 - In this documentary directed by Frank Capra, FDR speaks out against Nazi aggression in France and Hitler meets with General Huntziger to sign an armistice.
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1945 - An aerial view shows the wreckage of German cities after heavy bombing, and tanks sit unused in a destroyed war plant in Bismarck.
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1946 - The black market flourishes in postwar Japan.
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1945 - A US Navy plane gets off to a shaky takeoff from an aircraft carrier. Another plane lands on the flight deck and is engulfed in flames, but miraculously the pilot is pulled to safety.
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1942 - US Army tanks are transported by train to docks, where ships take them to the fighting front.
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1935 - Joseph Goebbels salutes Nazis stationed in the Free City of Danzig in time for the elections, and his car drives past more.
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1939 - In this Frank Capra documentary narrated by Walter Huston, German forces succeed in taking Warsaw, Poland (narrated in 1943).
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1930s - In this Frank Capra documentary, the fighting style of Chinese peasant guerrilla forces against the Japanese is explained (narrated in 1944).
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1940 - The Italian Air Force bombs Africa.
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1946 - General Groves, director of the Manhattan Project, explains how the research of atomic energy will go on postwar.
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1942 - Winston Churchill watches a US Army Air Force paratroop training exercise.