Republic of Armenia

Reunification of Armenia
While Greece and Turkey battled in the east, the first Armenian Republic invaded the western portions of Turkey in 1919, reclaiming the historic lands of Western Armenia. The excuse the Armenian government gave for the invasion was to reunify the Armenian homeland and as reparations for the genocide of the thousands of Armenians that had been killed in 1915. Unfortunately, the next year would see the invasion and annexation of the reunified Armenian homelands by the Soviet Union.