1945: Year of Decision

Documentary examining events leading to the creation of the United Nations.

• Categories: News & Features / Features
• Video Length: 00:28:00
• Production Date: 1 January 1969
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: EDVARD HAMBRO; FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT; JOSEPH STALIN; WINSTON CHURCHILL; ELEANOR ROOSEVELT; HARRY S. TRUMAN; VYACHESLAV MIKHAILOVICH MOLOTOV
• Corporate Name: UNITED NATIONS; UNITED NATIONS CHILDREN'S FUND - UNICEF
• Subject Topical: MILITARY ACTIVITY; SOVEREIGNTY; UNITED NATIONS ORGANIZATION; UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS; WAR; WORLD WAR - 1939-1945
• Geographic Subject: CRIMEA; GERMANY; INDIA; ITALY; JAPAN; NORWAY; UNITED KINGDOM; UNITED STATES; USSR
• MAMS Id: 2356175
• Parent Id: 840146

Description

In no other year in world history is the calendar as tightly interleaved as in 1945: Yalta… victory over Germany… Potsdam… San Francisco… Hiroshima… victory over Japan… the coming into existence of the United Nations. The relationship among these events is examined in an absorbing look back to the year in which this present age began.

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• Scripts: File; 1945 YEAR OF DECISION SCRIPT.pdf (1000.31 KB); File; 1945 YEAR OF DECISION SYNOPSIS.pdf (289.04 KB)