📘 Liberation did not settle who would rule Greece

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1. Occupation left a disputed political orderExplain how occupation, resistance legitimacy, British intervention, Varkiza, repression, and the 1946 election created a contested postwar state.Liberation ended foreign occupation without resolving who would control Greece's political and security institutions.
2. Insurgency becomes a regional warTrace the DSE, northern border support, rival political authority, the Truman Doctrine, American aid, and the Tito-Stalin split.A domestic struggle became a regional and Cold War crisis as outside support changed the balance between insurgency and state power.
3. Government offensives break the mountain frontUse the 1948 map, Grammos geography, air power, and the 1949 campaigns to explain the government's victory.Foreign-backed logistics and concentrated offensives turned mountain strongholds from strategic shelter into vulnerable targets.
4. Defeat produces displacement and divisionConnect military defeat to displacement, child separation, detention, monarchy, military influence, and contested memory.The war ended as an authoritarian and anti-communist settlement whose humanitarian and political consequences outlasted the fighting.

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