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Italian Prime Minister Benito Mussolini's rise to power in 1922 to World War II.
Rise of Benito Mussolini after World War I and taking Italy to World War II. Benito Mussolini and the Blackshirts parade in Rome when the Fascist Party comes to power after ousting Italian Prime Minister Luigi Facta in October 1922. Civilians of Benito Mussolini's Fascist Party parade in the 'March on Rome' when Mussolini takes over the government. Cheering civilians surround Mussolini as he exits from a building. The Blackshirts parade. Mussolini speaks from a balcony. A large crowd gives the Fascist salute at one of Mussolini's mass meetings. Crowds gathered at the Piazza del Popolo in Rome. Members of the Fascist Youth parade on the streets. German Chancellor Adolf Hitler deplanes from a Deutsche Luft Hansa plane in Venice and meets Italian Prime Minister Mussolini for the first time. Italian Minister of Foreign Affairs Gian Galeazzo Ciano and Mussolini and staff review troops. Mussolini shakes hands with Hitler, surrounded by Italian notables. A Royal Box at a ceremony shows Hitler, Mussolini, King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy and Queen Elena of Montenegro. An Italian tank review near the Colosseum and the Arch of Constantine in Rome (Piazza del Colosseo, 1, 00184 Roma RM, Italy). Italian crack troops goose-step past the Royal Box for Hitler to review the soldiers. The Munich Conference shows Hitler, Mussolini, Prime Minister of France Eduard Daladier, British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain among others. Mussolini signs the Munich Pact. Mussolini delivers a speech from his balcony at the Palazzo Venezia. Crowds acclaim Mussolini in the Piazza Venezia and the Altar of the Fatherland (Altare della Patria, Piazza Venezia, 00186 Roma RM, Italy).
German troops leaving Rome as Allied forces liberate the city (WW2)
Allied troops liberate Rome from Nazi Germany during World War II. United States Lieutenant General Mark W. Clark sits on a window ledge and discusses plans with other officers of the Fifth Army. Nazi German military vehicles with troops leave Rome. An abandoned German tank parked on a Roman street. German troops on cart pass by the Archbasilica of Saint John Lateran (Piazza di S. Giovanni in Laterano, 4, 00184 Roma RM, Italy). A soldier rides a bicycle. German tanks moving out of Rome. Allied forces on Jeeps and other vehicles moving in Rome. Road signs read “Rome” and “Roma”. United States soldier in piazza directing traffic in front of the Fountain of Fawns in Montelanico. Roman buildings show damage. United States army vehicles driving on tram lines towards Rome.
British Embassy in Rome bombed
British Embassy bombing in Rome, Italy. A newsreel titled ' British embassy dynamited' shows the wrecked front portion of British embassy in Rome, Italy after it was bombed. The British Embassy (Via XX Settembre 80/a, 00187 Rome, Italy) with a gaping entranceway and its residential section damaged. The internal façade of the Porta Pia, a gate in the Aurelian Walls of Rome, can be seen in the background. People look at the bomb wreckage. Roman Carabinieri on the scene. A Carabinieri searches for evidence in the rubble. Trinitrotoluene planted in suitcases caused the explosion.
Crowds cheering for Benito Mussolini in Rome, Milan, and Venice, Italy
Italian troops parade. Italians cheer for Mussolini outside the Galleria Vittorio Emanuele II (P.za del Duomo, 20123 Milano MI, Italy) in Milan, Italy. People gathered on St. Mark’s Square (P.za San Marco, 30100 Venezia VE, Italy) in Venice, Italy. A crowd cheers in front of the Victor Emmanuel II Monument (Piazza Venezia, 00186 Roma RM, Italy) in Rome, Italy. Crowds gathered in front of the Duomo di Milano Milan Cathedral (P.za del Duomo, 20122 Milano MI, Italy) in Milan and the St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome. View of the Milan Cathedral filled with cheering crowds outside.
Newsreel 'Latest films of war in Italy' shows progress of Allied forces advancing toward Rome in World War 2
United States Army Air Force fighter planes and B-17 bomber aircraft seen in flight, including close-up aerial views looking down on B-17 in flight. Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress “Hustlin Hussy” of the 385th Bomb Group in flight. Views of American bombing on the German supply lines outside of Rome Italy during World War II. U.S. planes bomb railroad marshaling yards near Rome. Allied forces cover the Mediterranean Sea. Explosions seen on ground as filmed from Allied aircraft over head. Fifth United States Army advance from the Anzio beachheads toward Rome. General Mark Clark in aircraft as he inspects the operation via aerial view. Close up views of General Mark Clark after he exits airplane to inspect operations. U.S. 5th Army troops on the ground bombard German positions with mortars and artillery. Explosions seen along German lines. American soldiers seen passing through small bombed-out villages in Italy. The town of Anzio heavily damaged after bombing. Group of Italian refugees greet American troops. German prisoners of war who have surrendered are marched in Italy, including many being marched double time. German prisoners marching, passing by a sign with arrow that reads “Military Police H.Q.”. They are seen being loaded into the same invasion ships that brought the Allied forces to Italy.
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.
