![On this day in 1940 Greek PM Ioannis Metaxas rejects Mussolini's ultimatum for Greece to let Italy occupy parts of Greece, marking the beginning of the Greco-Italian War - Photo Collection : On this day in 1940 Greek PM Ioannis Metaxas rejects Mussolini's ultimatum for Greece to let Italy occupy parts of Greece, marking the beginning of the Greco-Italian War - Photo Collection :](https://preview.redd.it/b4w4qn7e85w71.jpg?width=484&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=0870a34257cb22546377177ce6dbe643a0016b94)
On this day in 1940 Greek PM Ioannis Metaxas rejects Mussolini's ultimatum for Greece to let Italy occupy parts of Greece, marking the beginning of the Greco-Italian War - Photo Collection :
![AΡK on Twitter: "Greek PM Ioannis Metaxas receives Turkish PM Celal Bayar & Foreign Minister Tevfik Rüştü Aras, during their visit in Athens, 25-30 April 1938. Photographer: K. Megaloeconomou / Source: Theodoros AΡK on Twitter: "Greek PM Ioannis Metaxas receives Turkish PM Celal Bayar & Foreign Minister Tevfik Rüştü Aras, during their visit in Athens, 25-30 April 1938. Photographer: K. Megaloeconomou / Source: Theodoros](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ERXkTtTX0AECgZw.jpg:large)
AΡK on Twitter: "Greek PM Ioannis Metaxas receives Turkish PM Celal Bayar & Foreign Minister Tevfik Rüştü Aras, during their visit in Athens, 25-30 April 1938. Photographer: K. Megaloeconomou / Source: Theodoros
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![Interwar Years C. The dictatorship of Ioannis Metaxas and the start of World War II 1936 – 1940. - YouTube Interwar Years C. The dictatorship of Ioannis Metaxas and the start of World War II 1936 – 1940. - YouTube](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/mI2fcK7S5u4/maxresdefault.jpg)