Encyclopedia of the Korean War. Encyclopedia of the Korean War by Spencer C. The Korean War by Stanley Sandler. Tucker,Paul G. Pierpaoli Jr. Encyclopedia of the Korean War by Anonim. Understanding the Korean War by Arthur H. Encyclopedia of the Korean War by Spencer Tucker. Two of the factors that critically influenced Greek affairs including wars until originated in the birth of the Greek state. The first factor was the irredentist character of Greek nationalism.
The Great Idea—that is, the irredentist creed that became the central policy guide during this period—envisaged the liberation of co-ethnics and the historic Greek lands in the Balkan peninsula and Asia Minor.
The Greek state was not able to fulfill its irredentist goals through military means until , despite the five military mobilizations it proclaimed on occasions of turbulence in the Ottoman Empire: from to , from to , from to , in the only one of these cases that resulted in a full-scale war with the Ottomans , and from to These failures contrasted with the territorial gains Greece reaped through nonmilitary means: In , Britain ceded the Ionian Islands to Greece, whereas Thessaly was incorporated in after the — Russo-Turkish War.
During the First Balkan War — , their concerted military efforts overwhelmed the Ottoman Empire. Greece, Serbia, and Montenegro against Bulgaria. With the Treaty of Lausanne , Greece retained Western Thrace, whereas in a compulsory exchange of populations that this treaty completed, 1. Greece: A Country Study. Four successive wars in 10 years had profound consequences for the Greek state: It more than doubled its population to six million and its territory, whereas the exchange of populations reinforced its ethnic homogeneity.
Importantly, marked the burial of the Great Idea Megali Idea as the primary guide of state ideology and foreign policy. Although Greece successfully confronted the Italian invasion in October , the intervention of the Third Reich in April was decisive.
The particularly harsh Axis occupation of Greece—resulting in the worst famine in occupied Europe—was triple, as its territory was divided among Germany, Italy, and Bulgaria. The origins of the civil war can be located in the politics of the Greek resistance. When Greece was liberated October , two blocs of power contenders were already under formation: the one dominated by KKE, backed by the EAM-ELAS forces, and the anticommunist, national, and royalist bloc, which was initially backed by the British expeditionary force.
The British forces suppressed, in December , a communist armed insurgency in Athens. A full-scale civil war began after mid Lacking in equipment and size and failing to stabilize adequate territorial control, the communist Democratic Army of Greece DSE relied on guerrilla warfare.
The question of alliances was critical for the war outcome. On the other hand, the national army decisively benefited by the substantial military and economic assistance that the United States made available through the Truman Doctrine. Download eBook. Walker The definitive guide to the vehicles from a galaxy far, far away Don't know your X-wing from your Y-wing?
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