page_title: History of Greece
section_title: Military dictatorship (1967–1974)
hierarchical_section_title: History of Greece / Modern Greek nation state (1821–present) / Military dictatorship (1967–1974)
caption_attribution_description: For documentary purposes the German Federal Archive often retained the original image captions, which may be erroneous, biased, obsolete or politically extreme. Stuttgart, Maikundgebung Zentralbild/bpb 1. Mai 1967 in Stuttgart Diese Transparente und Losungen gaben der Stuttgarter Maikundgebung das äußere Gepräge [Stuttgart.- Maikundgebung, Transparente gegen den Atomkrieg und für freie Wahlen in Griechenland.]
context_page_description: The history of Greece encompasses the history of the territory of the modern nation state of Greece as well as that of the Greek people and the areas they inhabited and ruled historically. The scope of Greek habitation and rule has varied throughout the ages and as a result the history of Greece is similarly elastic in what it includes. Generally, the history of Greece is divided into the following periods:
  Neolithic Greece; covering a period beginning with the establishment of agricultural societies in 7000 BC and ending in c. 3200 – c. 3100 BC.
  Bronze Age; chronology covering a period beginning with the transition to a metal-based economy in 3200/3100 BC to the rise and fall of the Mycenaean Greek palaces spanning roughly five centuries.
  Ancient Greece; covering a period from the fall of the Mycenaean civilization in 1100 BC to 146 BC spanning multiple sub-periods including the Greek Dark Ages, Archaic period, the Classical period and the Hellenistic period.
  Roman Greece; covering a period from the Roman conquest of Greece in 146 BC to AD 324.
context_section_description: In 1967, the Greek military seized power in a coup d'état, overthrowing the centre right government of Panagiotis Kanellopoulos. It established the Greek military junta of 1967-1974 which became known as the Régime of the Colonels. The junta government's accession to power lead to an isolation to Greece from European affairs and froze Greece's entry to the European Union. In 1973, the régime abolished the Greek monarchy and in 1974, dictator Papadopoulos denied help to the United States. After a second coup that year, Colonel Ioannides was appointed as the new head-of-state.
  Ioannides was responsible for the 1974 coup against President Makarios of Cyprus. The coup became the pretext for the first wave of the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974 (see Greco-Turkish relations). The Cyprus events and the outcry following a bloody suppression of Athens Polytechnic uprising in Athens led to the implosion of the military régime.
caption: Protest against the junta by Greek political exiles in Germany, 1967
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