On 15 June 1917 an Allied ultimatum forced King Constantine to abdicate in favour of his second-born son, Alexander, and, with the rest of his family, leave the country for Switzerland. Venizelos returned to Athens, as head of a superficially reunified Greece, and led it to victory alongside the Allies in World War I, but also in its entanglement in the subsequent Asia Minor Campaign. As such, the immediate aims of the "National Defence" were met. But the revolution was also an expression of the wide rift between the quasi-Republican, progressive Venizelists and the conservative Royalists/Anti-Venizelists, and its outbreak marks also the beginning of the Greek National Schism which would leave a troublesome legacy to the country, as it continued in various forms up to the 1970s. In popular culture A popular song of the era celebrating the movement was performed by the musical Estudiantina of Smyrna named Tis aminis ta pedià (the lads of the Defence) or the Macedon. The song was performed also in the film Rebetiko of Costas Ferris in orchestration of Stavros Xarchakos. Notes References External links The Great War - Romanian & Greek Weapons of World War 1 feat. C&Rsenal The Great War - Greek Rifles and Pistols of World War 1 feat. C&Rsenal The Great War - A Crucial Test For Unity - Greece in WW1 I THE GREAT WAR Special The Great War - King Constantine I of Greece Serbia Is Invaded Once Again - The Entente Lands in Greece I THE GREAT WAR Week 63 Nivelle's Spring Offensive - Royal Conspiracy In Greece I THE GREAT WAR Week 131 The Merchant of Death - Basil Zaharoff I WHO DID WHAT IN WW1? -- The Great War Russia's New Offensive - The Russian Women's Battalion of Death I THE GREAT WAR Week 153 -- The Great War Provisional governments 1916 in Greece 1917 in Greece Greece in World War I Modern history of Greek Macedonia Politics of Thessaloniki Modern history of Thessaloniki Eleftherios Venizelos 1910s in Greek politics