The Major Gods of Ancient Yucatan by Taube, K.A.
By Taube, K.A.
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Held the largest Greek population in America. [She] . . lived in Chicago’s 19th Ward, a section of tenements on the old West side. Italians, Greeks and Bulgarians had large colonies bordering Halsted Street. The shops lining the area’s crowded sidewalks displayed signs in the languages of their immigrant customers. ” A few blocks to the south . . was the Maxwell Street Market where vendors sold potatoes, pots, pans, shoes, onions and fresh fish. On their day free from work, the immigrants flocked to the market.
The assistance from the United States helped defeat the Communist forces and the civil war ended in 1949. Greece, however, was a nation in ruins after a terrible decade. In addition to the more than 500,000 killed in World War II, more than 80,000 Greeks died in the civil war and almost 1 million more became refugees. Soon after the Truman Doctrine was announced, Congress passed the Displaced Persons Act in 1948. The law allowed certain Greeks to immigrate despite the quota restrictions. For example, many of these new immigrants were orphans whose parents had been killed in the conflicts in Greece.
By June 1941, Greece had been divided between Germany and Italy. The Germans controlled important cultural Although most Jewish people and strategic positions from the capital, either fled Greece or were Athens, to the border with Turkey, as sent to concentration camps well as the Aegean Islands. Italian forces during the German occupaoccupied the rest of Greece. tion, a few remained behind. As they did in other areas they They were hidden by conquered, German forces took control Christians and joined resistof Greece’s resources for their own war ance forces that hid in the effort.