WWI · TURNING POINT ·
Greek landing at Smyrna (1919)
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15 May 1919 — Greek troops land under Allied warships to claim western Anatolia. The Ottoman partition ignites the Turkish War of Independence — proof, within months, that the peacemakers’ map would not draw itself.
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- Treaty of Versailles (chapter 14 of WWI)
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- The Great War, 1871–1923
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