How Did The War Contribute To The Greek Civil War

What goes through your head when you hear Greek Civil War? The language, Destruction, Athens or ancient artifacts. Greece is a country in southern eastern Europe consisting of 2 mainland peninsulas and thousands of islands that lie along the seas. It was the birthplace of the Western civilization and the ancient landmarks. During World War II, Greece had helped Albania in which they were being invaded by Italy. Once the Greek army held them back the Nazis had intervened during the war and had overthrown both Greece and Yugoslavia. The Germans had split the greek army and pushed them back to evacuation. The only reason that made the germans invade Greece was that they were helping and allie which was italy. The communists(Italy and Germany)had both conquered areas that were all around Crete. This was where the Greek Communists started to attack people from inside of greek which had led to the Greek Civil War.expand
The Greek national army didn’t defeat the communists alone. They were backed up by the United States and Great Britain. There leaders were Winston Churchill, Ronald Scobie and James van fleet. Winston Churchill who was the prime minister of
The greek communists had been supported by the axis powers who had enslaved everyone. People wanted the war to end but Yugoslavia’s Josip Broz Tito wanted it to continue. He helped the greek communists in their efforts. This agreement had angered stalin who had recently agreed with Winston Churchill that they wouldn’t support the greek communists. There were other communists parties that occurred like the Communist Party of Yugoslavia. Tito's Yugoslavia initially supported the KKE but withdrew this support after the break between Tito and Stalin in 1948. Even though tito supported the communists at one point in the civil war he withdrew his support and supported the United States and Great Britain to defeat the greek