The guns surrounding the beleaguered Anatolian Peninsula fell silent with the Mundros Truce Agreement on October 1918 and a rough sort of peace continued through 15 May 1919. During this period, while the Turkish government began discharging soldiers and disbanding its army in agreement with the truce, the Allies took advantage of the situation with the French occupying the province of Adana, the British occupying Urfa Marash, Merzifon, Samsun, and Antep, and the Italians occupying Antalya and Konya. In May two things occurred that cahnged the course of history; the hated Greeks landed an Expeditionary Force at Izmir and Mustafa Kemal Pashe set foot in Turkey at Samsun.

The Greek invasion would spark a war that would create the Turkish legend of Ataturk as the Allies and the Bolshevik revolutionary forces attempted to conquer and divide Turkey between themselves. The war can be divided into three time periods: (1) Turkish Nationalist uprising and rebellion, (2) the formation of regular formations, (3) the Turkish Nationalist victory and insurance of an independent Turkey. The three years of the war would see "ethnic cleansing", internal rebellions, and bloody battles that tested both those who wished to conquer Turkey and the Turkish resolve. It was also a time of broken alliances and the destruction of three independent republics.

In the end, France settled for occupying Syria and the sub-district of Lebanon, England held on to Istanbul for two more years, Italy lost all claims to Turkish territory, Greece evacuated the peninsula ignominously defeated, and the Soviet Union settled for occupation of Georgia and Azerbaijan while Armenia would disappear in the bloody holocaust and thousand of civilians would be left dead. But the Young Turk Revolution would survive and the independent new nation of Turkey would emerge embodied in the person of Mustafa Kemal Pasha, ATATURK!