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Turkish-Greek conflict
The Greek felt that Turkey was weak so they tried to invade but were meet by the Turkey military. They sign a treaty to stop fighting in 1922 -
Greek Genocide
The Ottoman Empire held a mass killing of Greek people from 1914-1923.It included forced deportations and death marches, forced conversion to Islam, arbitrary executions, and destruction of Christian Orthodox cultural, historical and religious monuments. -
Corfu Incident
Italy invaded an Island of Greece called Corfu. While military forces where there the people were killed and bomb. Greek pleaded with the League of nations to kick them out which they did but Greece had to pay Italy an indemnity -
Greek republic referendum
This referendum, following Constantine I coming back in power in 1920, reflected the see-saw nature of the Greek government and the then-present dominance of the Liberal and Republican politicians in Greek politics and abolished the Crown for 11 years. On 25 March 1924 the Second Hellenic Republic was proclaimed. -
Greece invades Bulgaria
A couple of Greek soldiers were killed at the border of Bulgaria. The Greek invaded Bulgaria but soon left after Bulgaria went to the league of nations to ask for help -
Theodoros Pangalos
A short-lived dictator of Greece from 1925-1926 he came to power by officers that were loyal to him and fearing the instability of the country, they overthrew the government and forced President Pavlos Kountouriotis to appoint Pangalos as Prime Minister. -
Chaos in Greece
Greece's economy was now based on the export of luxury goods such as tobacco, olive oil, and raisins but international demand fell sharply during the Great Depression. Payments from Greeks overseas dropped at the same time. Having lost most of its foreignexchange sources, Greece experienced difficulties in servicing its large foreign debt in the early 1930s. -
Ierissos earthquake
The Greek town of Ierissos was devastated by an earthquake. Many people lost their homes and lives. The Greek government had no way to pay for repares -
Ioannis Metaxas
After King Constantine 1 lost power and left he followed the king but soon returned after the king regained power in 1920 but once again left after the fall of the monarchy in 1923, Metaxas once again returned to Greece shortly after the monarchy came back into power in 1935. King George II appointed him minister of army affairs on March 5, 1936, about a month later.He inaugurated a dictatorship under royal authorization. -
Thessaloniki, Greece
A strike by tobacco workers and other unions in 1936 led to the bloody events. The police confronted the massive strike by opening fire on the protesters. 12 dead and hundreds of wounded
