Uploaded November 2020 | Updated September 2026, 12 hours ago
This motion picture film examines world events that pulled the U.S. into World War II. In Reel 6, Axis powers sign the Berlin Pact in 1940. Mussolini and Hitler report to their people; Charles Lindbergh pleads isolationism; Wendell Willkie asks for aid to England. The Gallup poll echoes this view; FDR speaks to Congress on lend-lease. Lend-lease material is unloaded at several ports.
This motion picture film examines world events that pulled the U.S. into World War II. In Reel 6, Axis powers sign the Berlin Pact in 1940. Mussolini and Hitler report to their people; Charles Lindbergh pleads isolationism; Wendell Willkie asks for aid to England. The Gallup poll echoes this view; FDR speaks to Congress on lend-lease. Lend-lease material is unloaded at several ports.
![Signing of the Treaty of Versailles [Stock footage, good quality]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/3ar3y3NCpCQ/mqdefault.jpg "Signing of the Treaty of Versailles [Stock footage, good quality]
The signing of the Peace Treaty of Versailles, June 28, 1919.")
