MAPS OF HISTORY · ON THIS DAY · May 15
THE DAY IN HISTORY · MAY 15
May 15 in history
1919 — Smyrna
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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1940 — Breakthrough at Sedan
13–15 May 1940 — Panzers cross the Meuse out of the “impassable” Ardennes and race for the sea.
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