A review of the First World War and the involvement of Greece, the national division and its protagonists, the War in Asia Minor and its tragic outcome, the Treaty of Lausanne (1923) and the 2nd Greek Democracy, the four-year period of Eleftherios Venizelos (1928-1932), the ideological search and the modernization of the state, the restoration and the junta of Ioannis Metaxas, the Second World War and the participation of Greece, the Occupation and the Greek Resistance, the Liberation and the December events, the Civil War and the tug of war of the Great Powers, the Cold War and the strategy of Greece, the ailing democracy and the political system, the junta and regression, the regime change and the 3rd Greek Democracy, Greece in the European Union and the overall socio-political conquests of Greece from 1914 to date, mainly through archive evidence and testimonies.