The Chania Uprising

Metaxas was greatly concerned over the stance of the Cretans, who were regarded as the Venizelist party's most fervent supporters, and thus those posing the greatest threat to the regime. The islanders justified those concerns on 28^th July 1938, when an uprising aimed at overthrowing the Metaxas dictatorship broke out in Chania. Yet without sufficient support or direct action in other parts of Greece, the attempt was doomed to failure, and the Metaxas regime succeeded in quashing the rebellion.