Editing Abolition of monarchy (section)

==== Greece ====
In the [[modern history of Greece]], the monarchy was toppled in 1924, as a result of the [[National Schism]] and the [[Asia Minor Disaster]]. The resulting [[Second Hellenic Republic]] led a troubled existence, until a coup restored the monarchy in 1935. The subsequent dictatorial [[4th of August Regime]] was established with the support of King [[George II of Greece]], further delegitimizing the monarchy.

During the [[Axis occupation of Greece]], George II nominally led the [[Greek government in exile]], but the post-war fate of the monarchy was a major dividing issue for Greeks, especially with the rise of the pro-communist [[National Liberation Front (Greece)|National Liberation Front]] (EAM) as the country's largest resistance movement. As a compromise, the issue was to be determined by a referendum after the war. In the end, the threat of a post-war communist takeover led the [[Venizelist]] republicans to ally with the monarchists; with the defeat of EAM in the ''[[Dekemvriana]]'', the subsequent [[White Terror (Greece)|White Terror]], and the outbreak of the [[Greek Civil War]] in 1946 resulted in a monarchist victory in the [[1946 Greek referendum|1946 referendum]] and the return of George II to the country.

The last king, [[Constantine II of Greece|Constantine II]], interfered in politics during the [[Iouliana]] of 1965. The resulting political crisis led to a [[1967 Greek coup d'état|military coup]] in April 1967. Constantine II reluctantly accepted the ''fait accompli'' and lent it legitimacy, but when he tried to stage a counter-coup later that year, he was defeated and forced into exile. Greece formally remained a monarchy until it was abolished by the military junta in June 1973, followed by [[1973 Greek republic referendum|a July referendum confirming that decision]]. The restoration of the monarchy was overwhelmingly defeated, after constitutional legality was restored, by a free [[1974 Greek republic referendum|referendum in 1974]].