Greece 1920s Edit - Lay All Your Love On Me

The Greco-Turkish War of 1919-1922 was fought between Greece and the Turkish National Movement during the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire in the aftermath of World War I, between May 1919 and October 1922.
The Greek campaign was launched primarily because the western Allies, particularly British Prime Minister David Lloyd George, had promised Greece territorial gains at the expense of the Ottoman Empire, recently defeated in World War I. Greek claims stemmed from the fact that Anatolia had been part of Ancient Greece and the Byzantine Empire before the Turks conquered the area in the 12th-15th centuries.
The armed conflict started when the Greek forces landed in Smyrna , on 15 May 1919. They advanced inland and took control of the western and northwestern part of Anatolia, including the cities of Manisa, Balıkesir, Aydın, Kütahya, Bursa, and Eskişehir.
Their advance was checked by Turkish forces at the Battle of the Sakarya in 1921. The Greek front collapsed with the Turkish counter-attack in August 1922, and the war effectively ended with the recapture of Smyrna by Turkish forces and the great massacre of the greek population of the city.
Eleftherios Kyriakou Venizelos was a Greek statesman and a prominent leader of the Greek national liberation movement. He is noted for his contribution to the expansion of Greece and promotion of liberal-democratic policies. As leader of the Liberal Party, he held office as prime minister of Greece for over 12 years, spanning eight terms between 1910 and 1933. Venizelos had such profound influence on the internal and external affairs of Greece that he is credited with being "The Maker of Modern Greece", and is still widely known as the "Ethnarch".
His first entry into the international scene was with his significant role in the autonomy of the Cretan State and later in the union of Crete with Greece. In 1909, he was invited to Athens to resolve the political deadlock and became the country's Prime Minister. Not only did he initiate constitutional and economic reforms that set the basis for the modernization of Greek society, but also reorganized both the Greek Army and the Greek Navy in preparation of future conflicts. Before the Balkan Wars of 1912-1913, Venizelos' catalytic role helped gain Greece entrance to the Balkan League, an alliance of the Balkan states against the Ottoman Empire. Through his diplomatic acumen, Greece doubled its area and population with the liberation of Macedonia, Epirus, and most of the Aegean islands.
In World War I (1914-1918), he brought Greece on the side of the Allies, further expanding the Greek borders. However, his pro-Allied foreign policy brought him into direct conflict with Constantine I of Greece, causing the National Schism. The Schism polarized the population between the royalists and Venizelists and the struggle for power between the two groups affected the political and social life of Greece for decades. Following the Allied victory, Venizelos secured new territorial gains, especially in Anatolia, coming close to realizing the Megali Idea. Despite his achievements, he was defeated in the 1920 General Election, which contributed to the eventual Greek defeat in the Greco-Turkish War (1919-22). Venizelos, in self-imposed exile, represented Greece in the negotiations that led to the signing of the Treaty of Lausanne and the agreement of a mutual population exchange between Greece and Turkey.
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[@xats408]

Greece is the best

[@Pizza14]

long live Greece! from hungary 🇭🇺❤️🇬🇷

[@TheiosTasos]

🇬🇷❤️🇭🇺

[@Balkania]

I LOVE ELEFTHERIOS VENIZELS

[@haksrax39]

Venizelos: I am actually doing really well now! King Constanine: Imma do something really funny right now.

[@alexkermias]

True lol. Had venizelos won the election we would probably had won.

[@talos5992]

60km outside Ankara don't forget that Turks.....

[@Uljas_dunn]

Long live Greece!

[@afatbey488]

1923 Turkey brooo 🥸🥸🥸

[@Zehoq]

Actually it's 1922🤓 from a greek Keep crying

[@afatbey488]

@@Zehoq You always have to look at the result. If we look at the year 1940, the winners were the Germans and in 1945, the Allies. So, at the end of everything, the victories of 1923 and 1974 are ours You can continue to cry.

[@armaniorgaming]

@@afatbey488 Jokes on you, i can buy an entire house with 100 euro's in Turkey🐔

[@Meander130]

​@@afatbey488What did Turkey do in ww2? NOTHING?What kept you from fighting?

[@Turkmen_Shah_]

@@Meander130 Why should they fight if they have nothing good to gain from it?

[@yubinaluki3264]

ez win

[@WitheredBonnieOfficial2]

If Venizelos won elections:Nice running

[@armaniorgaming]

Where do you see the win exactly?

[@WitheredBonnieOfficial2]

@@armaniorgaming true

[@armaniorgaming]

@@WitheredBonnieOfficial2 I mean to that Turkish person, i respect Turks but if they don't respect my country i will lose respect for them.

[@WitheredBonnieOfficial2]

@@armaniorgaming ik they always like "swimmers" like bro stfu turkish dudes your asses runned in the revolution and the thing where we lost it was a 1v4 unlike the indepedence 2v4 someone has to always go with turkey

[@emrecankartal5576]

When a frog tries eat a bull ahahah (1920s)

[@EvoVerseBeyondtomorrow13]

Ahahaha 1821

[@yazovgaming]

Kolokotronis sends his regards

[@Yusuf-ox2xl]

ataturk joined the game, you lose

[@EvoVerseBeyondtomorrow13]

Kolokotronis joined the game,game over

[@Anastas1ios]

When Venizelos was still in the game (1919), you guys already had rage-quitted.

[@TheiosTasos]

Calm down yusuf

[@b8ffccc]

ataturk leave game, you lose now hahahahhaa

[@ΜΑΡΙΑΣΥΜΙΑΝΑΚΗ-η5γ]

Hellas spawn your Empire is dead

[@seyitwick]

Ataturk threw you well into the sea

[@WitheredBonnieOfficial2]

If eleftherios venizelos was still in charge ataturk would had been rolling on his grave today

[@galvanize7181]

Δεν πειράζει το 1925 νικήσαμε τη βουλγαρία το 1940 νίκησα με την ιταλία το 1941 νικήσαμε πάλι τη βουλγαρία και ο ίδιος ο χίτλερ μασάφισε να πάμε σπίτια μας με τις στολές και όπλα επειδή ήμασταν ο γενναιότερος στρατός που είχαν αντιμετωπίσει

[@WitheredBonnieOfficial2]

FOR SURE LIL BRO DEFINETLY DIDN'T HAPPEN BECAUSE ENTENTE WAS CARRYING YOUR ASSES

[@galvanize7181]

​@@WitheredBonnieOfficial2δεν κατάλαβα

[@WitheredBonnieOfficial2]

@@galvanize7181 Εννοώ ότι η Γαλλία και το Ηνωμένο Βασίλειο έκαναν όλη τη δουλειά όχι η Τουρκία