Scenes of prosperity in US, poverty elsewhere, Communism in Europe and Soviet Union, and growing conflict between US and Soviet Union

Title card: "Now - the story that affects the welfare and freedom of all the earth's people . . . The Story of the East-West split!" / title card: "What was behind this clash of ideals and the widening breach in the political structure of Europe? What were the links in America's program for containing world Communism? What prompted our State Department's new 'get tough' approach to its dealings with the Kremlin? Let us again turn back the calendar to January, 1947 . . . . " / mountain scene / VS tractor pulls plow / sheep / cut tree falls / men pile hay on wagon / woman sets cooked turkey on table / CU turkey / woman and boy sitting at table / girl crying / women eat / boy being served food / VS people forage / VS food being weighed out for people / beams of light on rotating world globe / map showing lightning shooting out from USSR across Europe / VS Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin / Soviet soldiers march in Red Square / map showing beams of light shooting from US towards Europe / VS Soviet and US troops meet at end of World War II / poster showing US and Soviet soldier shaking hands, lighting bolts shoot across poster // "Paris" superimposed over Communists parading / man in parade / man holding hammer and sickle on pole / CU French politician Maurice Thorez speaking // "Athens" superimposed over Communist demonstrators / Communists demonstrating // "Rome" superimposed over Communist demonstrators / crowd applauds / Communist Palmiro Togliatti speaks / crowd listens / map of Europe showing Iron Curtain // aerial shot of airplane flying over US Capitol / EXT State Department building / Secretary of State James Byrnes sitting at desk / VS newspaper headline, CU photo of Byrnes speaking / VS Byrnes speech in Stuttgart; audience listens / delegates from various nations in meeting room / Byrnes in meeting room / Soviet delegate Vyacheslav Molotov / delegates seated at table / Note: exact month/day not known