Greater Greece after World War I

archaeogeek

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:confused: During the war of indepandance killing the other side´s civillians started and it was also done during the balkan wars. I think it was the rift between the pro-german royalists and the pro-entente republikans(?) that kept Greece out of the war. Change the king or his view and Greece could have been in the war in 1915. Instead of landing at Gallipolli the exped. force goes to Greece and advances over land against Bulgaria and Turkey. how does that sound?

The Germans are in Athens by spring of 1916.
 

archaeogeek

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You are basing this assumption on?

How fast Romania folded. And Romania had the advantage of having Russia on its back, Greece is next to the core territories of two central powers, one equal and one superior in force to it.
 

archaeogeek

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So what? The Italians too expected a quick, cheap victory. Don´t get me wrong, the best the smaller nations ot already at war by 1914could have done was to stay out of the war.

The Italians in 1916 were busy failing at Isonzo against the army that gave us the Galician campaign and shooting their own men. WW1 is not WW2 and the Balkans did fold as soon as the central powers decided to put their full weight on them.
 
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