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German forces advance towards the battlefront in Greece during World War II.
German ground offensive in Greece and Southern Yugoslavia during World War II. Soldiers stand near artillery. Artillery lined up on a field. A column of German soldiers moves through Southern Yugoslavia en route to Greece. Soldiers aboard tanks passing through the streets. A bridge is set on fire by them. Serbian prisoners of war are taken.
Greek school children attend Nazi kindergarten during World War 2
Young children attend Kindergarten in Greece during World War 2. Pedestrians walking on the street outside a school building. A Nazi officer speaks to an official. Men holding a sign in German “Beschlagnahmt für befehlshaber Saloniki- Ägäis abteilung verwaltung und wirtschaft” (“Confiscated for commander Saloniki-Aegean department of administration and economy” in English). School building in Greece. Greek Kindergarten students form a straight line to enter their classroom. A portrait of Adolf Hitler hangs on classroom wall. Kindergarten children clapping. A smiling nurse teaches Kindergarten students. A girl looks up with an intense expression. A boy writing diligently. Children in cribs. A young girl cradles a baby doll.
Greek soldiers fire artillery and transport wounded Turks following Battle of Bizani; Greek soldiers march in Ioannina.
Greek soldiers in the First Balkan War battle against Turkish forces for control of the forts of Bizani on the approach to Ioannina. The Greek soldiers under the command of Crown Prince Constantine fire artillery cannons at Turkish positions holding the Fort. Smoke rises up due to explosions. Tents are erected in the far background. The Greek soldiers march along a road leading into the Fort. The Greek soldiers transport the wounded and dead Turks following the battle. Stretchers with wounded are carried by hand, and horse carts carrying dead Turkish soldiers. The Greek soldiers marching on streets in Janina, Greece (Ioannina Greece; and also called Jannena). Greek soldiers carry rifles with fixed bayonets as they march following the battle.
Lyndon B. Johnson attends opening of market in Athens, Turkish farmers practice terracing method of farming, Iranian scientists study cotton
Road graders in Athens, Greece. Construction work for the new wholesale market center in Athens. Workers push a wooden handcar during construction of market center. Workers sweep and clean surroundings before the opening of the new Athens market center. United States Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson arrives and visits the new wholesale market center in Athens, Greece. Lyndon B. Johnson shakes hands with Greek women. Lyndon B. Johnson notices a small-scale model of the market center. Wholesale market center sign written in English and Greek. Greek spectators wave Greek and American flags to welcome United States Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson. Lyndon B. Johnson poses together with Greek women for picture. Lyndon B. Johnson shakes hands with Greek man in sunglasses. Crowds gather in new wholesale marketplace to welcome Lyndon B. Johnson. Donkey in hilly farmland in Turkey. Turkish farmers till the terraced farmland with hoes. Hill converted for farming through terracing method in Turkey. Ship sails in the Bosporus strait. View of Rumelihisarı (also known as Rumelian Castle ,Roumeli Hissar Castle, or Boğazkesen Castle). Lyndon B. Johnson shakes hands and talk with Iranian scientists. Iranian Ministry of Agriculture sign in front of Varamin Agricultural Research Center. Iranian scientists analyze cotton samples at Varamin Agricultural Research Center. Iranian scientist in looks into a microscope at cotton sample. A Mitchell cotton gin in Iran.
Lyndon B. Johnson visits American Farm School in Thessaloniki, Greek farmers feed livestock, irrigate, tend crops and weld machinery
Sign at entrance of the American Farm School (Μαρίνου Αντύπα 12, Thessaloniki 551 02, Greece) in Thessaloniki, Greece. 500 students welcome the Vice President of the United States, Lyndon B. Johnson in the American Farm School. Students perform a traditional Greek dance to welcome Lyndon B. Johnson in the American Farm School. Lyndon B. Johnson and entourage ride on farm tractors during school visit. Students manually till land in American Farm School. Students attend a practical class on machinery. A teacher watches student form metal on anvil as they train to become blacksmiths. Students train in various practical trades such as welding, heavy machinery maintenance, bricklaying, and carpentry. Student tinkers with electric circuits and switches on light bulbs. Black cattle graze outside American Farm School. Students feed cattle and chickens in the school’s barn and chicken house. Chicken houses owned by American Farm School Alumni in Greek countryside. A farmer, alumni of the American Farm School, tends to his farmland. Water pouring from irrigation pipe at farm. Farmer tends to his crops. A welder repairs farm machinery. Welder talks to a farmer. Farm tractors in Greek countryside. Lyndon B. Johnson, wearing sunglasses, meets admiring Greek citizens. “we can build together a stronger community, of human dignity, human progress, and universal freedom” says United States Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson.
Communism growing over Central and Eastern Europe after World War 2, and development of Marshall Plan.
Events after World War II. Harvesting in U.S. farms. Closeup view as a tractor plows fields. Men on horseback driving sheep. Woman serves a Thanksgiving turkey dinner to her family gathered at a nice dining room table in the United States. Her children look at the food with smiles. Contrasting scenes show Europeans starving amid post-war ruins. Women and children looking for food. A child in a soup line. Women wait in a line to receive grain that is weighed on a scale (possibly Soviet area). Globe spins. Joseph Stalin and other Soviet officials watch a military parade in Red Square in Russia. Retrospective scenes of the meeting of Russian and U.S. troops at the Elbe River late in World War 2. Communist rally in Paris. A protester holds up a hammer and sickle symbol. A demonstration of protestors in Athens, Greece, and another Communist demonstration in Rome, Italy. Map depicts communist control growing over Central and Eastern Europe early in Cold War. High aerial view of Washington DC with a lower altitude airplane flying over the U.S. Capitol. Exterior view of State Department (Old Executive Office Building) in Washington DC. View of Secretary of State James F Byrnes working at his desk. Byrnes speaks of U.S. role in world affairs while at a conference in Stuttgart, Germany. Scenes from a meeting of the Big Four foreign ministers in 1947. Scenes changes to North Portico of White House. Swearing in ceremony of George C. Marshall as Secretary of State. President Harry S Truman shakes hands with Secretary George Marshall. Night view of London landmark buildings. View of door at No. 10 Downing Street in London. View of brutal winter conditions in Europe in February 1947. Citizens try to dig out a train stuck in snow. Women in line in Britain for a rationed good, still saddled with its own postwar reconstruction. Narrator relates that Britain was unable to continue to provide massive military and economic aid to the Greek regime and appealed to the U.S. to handle the situation. Secretary of State Marshall and President Truman seen talking together in front of a fireplace mantle. Marshall boards aircraft for a visit to Moscow. Truman in a White House meeting, seated at oval table with his advisors and cabinet. Truman addressing joint session of congress on March 12, 1947. He asks for funds for Greece and Turkey. Globe highlights USSR. Door sign reads 'Policy Planning Staff - George F Kennan - Director'. Director Kennan seen at his desk. He advocates a long term, patient but firm and vigilant containment of Russian expansive tendencies. Reconstruction in Europe. Ground level and aerial views of bomb destroyed European cities, and workers cleaning up rubble. Brief scene from the meeting of 16 nations in Paris on July 3, 1947. Scenes from United Nations meeting held in Lake Success New York in September 1947. George Marshall at podium addressing delegates of UN. Russian delegate Andrey Vyshinsky commenting on Marshall Plan. Signing of Marshall Plan agreement by international delegates meeting in Paris in September 1947.
