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  • with the support of the Belgian government, led a coup d'état. The coup overthrew King Kigeli V and the Hutu gained more and more power. Upon Rwanda's ...
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  • and it is argued, still are) often involved in coup d'états resulting in a ... removed from power on August 19, 1953, in a coup d'état, supported and funded ...
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  • to the United States after the 1948 communist coup d'état when she was eleven years old. A member of the Democratic Party, she worked as an aide to ...
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  • Government and consolidate power in a coup d'etat. That the Bolsheviks ... century. The nation that was born in a coup d'etat ironically ended ...
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  • throughout Pakistan, rumors of an impending coup d'état by younger army officers against the government of President Mohammed Agha Yahya Khan swept ...
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  • of the Portuguese Armed Forces staged a coup in Lisbon in April 1974, overthrowing ... after the massacre. Salazar, after a pro U.S. coup failed to depose him, consolidated ...
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  • The African Union described the takeover as a military coup d'état. [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/4241001.stm Togo succession 'coup ...
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  • forced out of office on October 20, 1944 by a coup d'état led by Major Francisco ... (Chiquita Banana). The CIA codename for the coup was Operation PBSUCCESS (it was ...
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  • of June, the Estates-General finally died, given the coup de grace by the King who had commanded it into existence." Schama, 366. ==Legacy== ...
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  • became strained, and the Emperor attempted a coup d'état to oust the Daijō Daijin (prime minister), Taira no Kiyomori (平 清盛). Kiyomori defeated ...
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  • Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de Lamartine ( alfɔ̃s maʁi lwi dəpʁa də lamaʁtin|lang ; October 21, 1790 February 28, 1869 Gorton Carruth, The Encyclopedia ...
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  • Many Parisians presumed Louis' actions to be the start of a royal coup by the conservatives and began open rebellion when they heard the news the next ...
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  • Former Prime Minister Daoud seized power in an almost bloodless military ... Kabul had warned following Amin's initial coup against and murder of Taraki ...
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  • 1922. This was partly suspended by Ulmanis after his coup in 1934, but reaffirmed in 1990. Since then it has been amended and is the constitution of Latvia today ...
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  • Chinese conservative Korean government in a bloody coup d'état. The pro-Chinese faction, with assistance from Chinese troops under General Yuan Shikai, succeeded ...
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  • Tanganyika to form Tanzania, after a 1964 coup in Zanzibar toppled Jamshid bin ... However, Nyerere also instigated the 1977 coup d'etat that ousted the first ...
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  • Following a coup within Chōshū which returned to power the extremist factions opposed to the Shogunate, the Shogunate announced its intention to lead a ...
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  • to remove Mossadegh in what was widely seen as a coup d'état, despite the fact that the Shah was legally entitled to dismiss Mossadegh. In subsequent ...
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  • dissolution of the parliament in a military coup d'état known as the 1952 ... Muslim Brotherhood supporters from power in a coup d'etat and installed an ...
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  • Jeonju clan of Yi, ascended the throne in a coup d'etat against King U of ... deposing General Choi and his followers. In a coup d'état, Yi overthrew King ...
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