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  • The 1953 Iranian coup d'état deposed the government of Prime Minister ... The coup was precipitated when Mosaddeq nationalized Iran's oil industry ...
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  • candidate for Prime Minister following the coup that overthrew Mossadeq on the ... for his willingness to take part in this coup; indeed, he may have instigated ...
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  • The 1953 Iranian coup d'état deposed the government of Prime Minister ... The coup was precipitated when Mosaddeq nationalized Iran's oil industry ...
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  • Muslim community in what Shi'as consider a coup d'état. The Shi'a believe that Muhammad had wanted Ali to succeed him and that his familial relationship ...
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  • (CIA) Operation Ajax, which orchestrated the coup d’état against Iran's ... the Cold War, the legacy of the Mosaddeq coup makes the task of spreading freedom ...
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  • attempted to reclaim power, Yi launched a coup d'état in 1126, sacking ... the court. Alerted to the plot, Yi launched a coup d'état. Ch'ok Chun ...
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  • cabinet, but in 1982, was accused of plotting a coup d'état after South African double agents in Zimbabwe's Central Intelligence Organization, attempting ...
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  • much older) brothers, joining with Pittacus in a coup d'état which toppled the aristocratic Melanchros from power. Pittacus was considered one of the wisest ...
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  • In May 1943, as a colonel, Perón was a significant figure in the military ... and injuring 95. On June 15, 1955, a failed coup d'état by anti-Peronists ...
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  • formulating a five-year economic plan. A coup precluded action on the plan. ... A military coup d'état (5.16 coup d'état) led by Major General ...
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  • violence of a civil war. On occasion a failed coup, or one that is only half successful ... succeed in gaining power through a quick coup or localized uprising, but a ...
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  • 47th of the Republic)(7th since the 1926 coup d'état)(1st of the Estado Novo) ... After the 28th May 1926 coup d'état, he briefly joined José Mendes ...
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  • Bellow was assassinated during a January 15, 1966, military coup which toppled Nigeria's post-independence government. He was still serving as premier ...
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  • virtual dictator. He was ousted in a military coup on June 9, 1923. He attempted ... In the coup on May 19, 1934, the Zveno military organization established ...
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  • Until a military coup in July 1994, The Gambia was led by Jawara, who was ... In the aftermath of the attempted coup, Senegal and The Gambia signed the ...
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  • to the Cuban Senate in 1948. He later staged a coup d'etat when it became clear ... lose. Thus, he staged a relatively bloodless coup d'état on March 10, 1952 ...
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  • in 1658, was effectively deposed by an officers' coup in April, 1659, the officers re-summoned the Rump Parliament to sit. It convened on May 7, 1659 (OS), ...
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  • to 1977. Despite being ousted in a Marxist coup, Mancham returned to the Seychelles ... in June 1977, Mancham was deposed in a coup by Prime Minister France-Albert ...
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  • wanted to restore her own regency through a coup d'état. Plans of the coup ... Beiyang military commanders, fabricated a coup d'état in Beijing and Tianjin ...
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  • ocument_20050822.shtml A Very British Coup,] BBC Radio 4. Retrieved July ... Mosaddeq was removed from power on August 19, 1953, in a coup d'état ...
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  • South Korean government through a bloodless coup in 1961 after the resignation ... ;Coup d'état Seizing the moment, Major Gen. Park Chung-hee led a bloodless ...
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  • Democratic rule ended in 1962 with a military coup d'état led by General ... non-military president since the military coup of 1962. On April 6, 2016, Aung ...
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  • However, the newspaper was suppressed during a Prussian coup d'état in June 1849. The coup d'état separated Engels and Marx, who lost his Prussian ...
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  • Oaxacan region coincided with a successful military coup d'état in Spain against the new monarchy of King Ferdinand VII who had returned to power after being ...
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  • in 1960. The country's first military coup occurred in 1966; it returned ... as interim president. In the aftermath of the coup, ECOWAS and African Union suspended ...
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  • post at the École Polytechnique. In 1851, after the coup d'état of that year, Cauchy and François Arago were exempted from taking an oath. Subsequently, ...
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  • in 1009, General Gang Jo of Goryeo led a coup against King Mokjong killing ... than the supreme king himself. That spawned a coup by Yi Ja-gyeom in 1126. The coup ...
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  • and failed foreign policy. He killed many coup-plotters and political enemies ... by his successor as a means of excusing the coup d'état and legitimizing ...
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  • tribes on the northern frontier. In 1170, a coup d'état occurred, brought ... dissident faction that plotted an unsuccessful coup against the king. A high-ranking ...
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  • troops in the Kargil War. Two months later, an army coup led by Pervez Musharraf deposed him. ==Notes== ==References== * Bharat Rakshak. [http://www.bharat ...
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  • In October of that year, the Hutus attempted a coup. The king fled the country, never ... former president Pierre Buyoya took power in a coup d'etat. In August 2000, ...
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  • to write about politics after Louis-Napoleon's coup d'état, primarily for the Revue Germanique, a journal dedicated to promoting Franco-German relations. ...
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  • 12, 1974, when the Marxist Derg staged a coup d'état against Emperor Haile Selassie, and lasted until the Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Democratic ...
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  • Mohammed Mossadegh of Iran. This led directly to the coup d'état via Operation Ajax in support of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the Shah of Iran, who ruled Iran until 1979. ...
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  • Barre, who had seized power in a military coup October 21, 1969 was toppled ... nine years of civilian government, a military coup in 1969 brought Siad Barre into ...
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  • election approached, he was toppled in a coup. He went into exile, living in ... Amin became President. Published works on the coup have asserted that Western Governments ...
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  • prepared to resist what they saw as an illegal coup by force of arms. An uprising ... The events of 1688 and their aftermath can thus be seen as much more of ...
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  • Colonel Sitiveni Rabuka carried out a coup, followed by a second coup on ... A year later, this government was deposed in a coup led by George Speight, a hardline ...
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  • Hardliners in the Soviet leadership attempted a coup d'état in August ... when the CPSU was proscribed after the August coup, Gorbachev was left with no effective ...
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  • Regime of the Colonels took power in Greece after a coup d'état. After two years marked by widespread censorship, political detentions and torture, Seferis ...
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  • military general to seize power through a coup. He dismissed the elected assembly ... deposed Mirza on October 27 in a bloodless coup, sending Generals Azam, Burki ...
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  • #039;s junta was deposed in a January 1964 coup by General Nguyen Khanh. ... that mass resignations would arouse suspicion of a coup plot. ...
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  • Wafd Party Makram Ebeid. Following the 1952 coup d'état by the Free Officers ... increasing marginalization after the 1952 coup d'état led by Gamal Abdel ...
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  • death, Moussa Dadis Camara seized control in a coup, declaring himself head of a ... along with several countries, denounced the coup, and called for President Condé ...
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  • based on that of Riego in Spain, called for a swift coup d'état to limit instability, and the elimination of the entire royal family. Following assumption ...
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  • 1978, running unopposed. In 1982, an attempted coup failed and Moi took the opportunity ... loyal to his government defeated an attempted coup by Air Force officers led by ...
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  • and forcibly dethroned King U in a de facto coup d'état but did not ascend to the throne right away. Instead, he placed on the throne King U's ...
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  • in 1919. After an attempted anti-Communist coup, Kun unleashed a reprisal, the ... support, could only be accomplished through a coup d'état, he communicated ...
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  • == Coup d'etat == The marriage was unsuccessful. It may not have been ... their empress. The result was a bloodless coup; Ekaterina Dashkova, confidante ...
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  • and the Venezuelans achieved home rule after a coup on April 19, 1810, and declared ... Gallegos was overthrown by a military-backed coup led by Marcos Pérez Jiménez ...
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  • however, he returned to power in the May 1926 coup d'état, becoming de facto ... 1926, Piłsudski returned to power in a coup d'état (the May Coup), ...
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  • Following their coup, the Mountain, led by Hérault de Séchelles, quickly ... supported by The Plain, instituted a coup d'état. A number of plots ...
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  • A socialist government seized power in a bloodless coup in 1977 and continues ... a republic within the Commonwealth. In 1977, a coup d'etat backed by the socialist ...
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  • of dissatisfied officers staged a military coup, putting General Robert Guéi ... that former president Robert Guéi had led a coup attempt, and state television ...
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  • Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in a military coup d'état on July 5, 1977 ... the validity of the July 1977 military coup. The Supreme Court of Pakistan ...
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  • in an attempt to end the Vietnam War when the coup against his regime took place ... his government was overthrown in a military coup, which some claim was backed ...
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  • admitted into the order. President Napoleon staged a coup d'état and made himself emperor of the French in 1852. ===Second Empire=== An Imperial crown ...
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  • week of 1341 (presumably he was killed in time of coup d'état). He was married three times, and left seven sons and six daughters. Two of his sons perished ...
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  • Dictatorships can be formed by a military coup that overthrows the previous ... are susceptible to collapse through a coup or a revolution. == Structure == ...
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  • of her father until her family was killed in a coup d'état on August 15, 1975 ... and three brothers were assassinated in a coup d'etat by a section of disgruntled ...
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  • Congress of Soviets following the Bolshevik coup d'etat in which the Provisional ... and allowed his enemies to organize a coup d'etat. ==Notes== ...
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  • governor. After the April 6, 1985, military coup, regional assemblies were suspended ... CPA); the NCP, which came to power by military coup in 1989, is the majority partner; ...
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  • of the British East India Company approved Coup d'état as its policy in Bengal. Mir Jafar, negotiating through an Armenian merchant, Khwaja Petruse ...
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  • family during the French Second Empire, from the coup d'état of December 1851, which established Napoleon III as Emperor through to the aftermath of the Franco ...
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  • Pervez Musharraf, who took power in a military coup d'état in October 1999, introduced a new amendment to Pakistan's constitution which bans prime ...
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  • In 1964, Khrushchev was forced to step down in a coup that brought Leonid ... == Coup involvement and death== It is claimed by some that by 1964, he had ...
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  • or light plane. Forty years of military junta, coup d'état and guerrilla warfare ... to rule by decree until a January 1986 coup. The military council that came ...
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  • history. He led the opposition to an attempted coup by communist hardliners opposed ... himself as a democrat and defying the August coup attempt of 1991 by hard-line ...
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  • Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf (October 29, 1938 - ) is the current President of Liberia, Africa's first elected female head of state and Liberia's first ...
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  • became Prime Minister of Italy after a coup d'état. Mussolini resolved the question of Dodecanese sovereignty at the 1923 Treaty of Lausanne, which ...
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  • who suddenly had Honnōji surrounded in a coup, forcing Oda to fight him. At the same time, Akechi forces assaulted Nijo Castle. Oda was killed in combat ...
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  • Thailand was a representative democratic constitutional monarchy until the ... period under King Taksin the Great, until a coup d'etat in 1782. The current ...
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  • In 1964, a military coup d'état put an end to that effort, Freire being imprisoned as a traitor for 70 days. After a brief exile in Bolivia, Freire ...
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  • authoritarian and dictatorial, prompting a coup d'état in March 1979 by ... October 19, 1983, during a hardline military coup that brought a new pro-Soviet/Cuban ...
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  • . Tribal tensions increased after a military coup in 1966 which resulted in General ... Claims of electoral fraud were the ostensible reason for a military coup ...
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  • Ahmed Abdallah from office in an armed coup on August 3, 1975, and replaced ... Abdallah continued as president until 1989 when, fearing a probable coup ...
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  • in 1962. Amin sincerely believed that his coup enjoyed popular support, while ... Amin seized power in a 1971 Ugandan military coup on 25 January 1971, while Obote ...
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  • British forces. He participated in the 1952 coup d'état which dethroned King Farouk I. When the revolution erupted, he was assigned to take over the ...
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  • Yugoslavia joined on March 25, 1941, but a British-supported coup d'état ... Mussolini was freed, declared his dismissal a coup, and proclaimed it put down on ...
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  • A military coup in 1966 ushered in an Igbo ruler who tried to unite the ... when the regime was overthrown by the military coup of Mohammadu Buhari in 1984, ...
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  • 1974 when the monarchy was overthrown in a coup d'etat. Earlier the Aksumite ... famine between 1972 and 1974 resulted in a Marxist-coup. == Early History== ...
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  • Keïta was the victim of a coup in 1968, bringing to power young officers belonging to the Military Committee for National Liberation. When the committee ...
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  • of the Russian army, attempted a military coup d'état that became known ... The Coup of General Kornilov is suppressed. But the turmoil that he spread ...
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  • Greece, resulting in a Greek backed military coup in July 1974 which itself precipitated ... On July 15, 1974, the Greek regime sponsored a coup d'etat in Nicosia. Makarios ...
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  • justify United States involvement in 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état, which overthrew the pro-Soviet leader Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán. ==The Cold War== ...
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  • with the support of the Belgian government, led a coup d'état, overthrowing King Kigeli V. Upon Rwanda's independence on July 1, 1962, Kigali ...
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  • overthrown in a British-United States assisted coup d'état. With the support ... were justified for strategic reasons; but the coup was clearly a setback for Iran ...
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  • when, at the age of 21 and a half, he staged a palace coup and assumed full power. He continued the tradition of tenaciously attacking and defeating the feudal states ...
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  • His term ended abruptly in 1968, with a coup d'état. Captain Marien Ngouabi assumed the presidency but continued his predecessor's socialist ...
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  • personal influence of the preceding years. After the coup d'état of December 2, he was deprived of his position as permanent member of the Superior Council ...
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  • by an invasion of the Byzantines. A coup d'état drove Ivan Stefan out of the capital Tǎrnovo in 1331, and the conspirators placed Ivan Alexander on ...
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  • KGB's resources to aid the August 1991 coup attempt to overthrow Soviet President ... Soviet Union’s most important intelligence coup, detailed information concerning ...
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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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • re-entered France to try to lead a Bonapartist coup at Strasbourg. Louis-Philippe ... of his mistress, Harriet Howard, he staged a coup d'état and seized dictatorial ...
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  • persuade leaders of the German Army to stage a coup against the regime: the 1944 ... by assassinating Hitler or by staging an Army coup against him. But it was a long ...
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  • and killed, through what Shi'a consider a coup d'état against Ali's caliphate. In the past, some Sunni scholars (belonging to the Salafi ...
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  • Fair in 1939. Sarnoff also negotiated the great coup of getting Franklin Delano Roosevelt to appear on NBC, making him the first president to appear on television ...
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  • Plains Indian warriors won prestige, known as "counting coup," ... Coups were recorded by notches in the coup stick, or by feathers in the ...
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  • A violent coup on Lesbos, following a rebellion led by Pittacus, toppled the ruling families from power. For many years, Sappho and other members of the ...
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  • His term ended abruptly in 1968 with a coup d'état. Capt. Marien Ngouabi assumed the presidency but continued his predecessor's socialist policies ...
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  • in the past, such as its support for the 1973 Chilean coup d'état. From two separate interviews in 2003, Powell stated in one about the 1973 event "I ...
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  • August 29, 1618, Maurice and his allies carried out a coup d'état, overthrowing the States General (of which Grotius was a member in his position as pensionary ...
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  • of his father. When 17 years old he led a coup against his regent, Roger Mortimer ... the help of a few trusted companions, staged a coup d'état at Nottingham castle ...
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  • began fighting, in the hopes of triggering a coup. However, when no American support ... that Saddam would be overthrown in an internal coup. The Central Intelligence Agency ...
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  • to Guatemala. Meanwhile, the CIA-sponsored coup attempt led by Carlos Castillo ... soon returned to medical duties. Following the coup Guevara volunteered to fight ...
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  • Many Parisians presumed Louis's actions to be the start of a royal ... to seize power through a parliamentary coup, backed up by force effected ...
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  • probably did not bring about the Chilean coup of 1973, in which Allende was ... and provided material support to the military regime after the coup, continuing ...
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  • in 1178. The next year, in 1179, Kiyomori staged a coup d'etat, forcing the resignation of his rivals from all government posts and subsequently banishing them ...
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  • until 1970 when he was ousted by a military coup led by Prime Minister General ... the conflict was shaken in 1997 during a coup d'état, but has otherwise ...
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  • by Vice-President Gennadi Yanayev launched a coup overthrowing Gorbachev in August 1991. Russian President Boris Yeltsin rallied the people and much of the ...
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  • Government, but after the successful coup d'etat and Bolshevik assumption of power, she supported her husband's decision. ===After the revolution=== ...
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  • #039;s staff after the unexpected March 27 coup d'état against the Yugoslav ... The Yugoslav coup d'état led to a sudden change in the plan of attack ...
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  • Republic, leading to Dacko being overthrown in another coup in 1981. In a related incident, Giscard was reported by the Canard Enchaîné to have accepted ...
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  • to refer to Mussolini's rise as a "coup d'état" since he obtained his post legally with the blessing of the sovereign of the nation ...
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  • of Cyprus and the subsequent Athens-inspired coup, Turkey intervened militarily ... in 1960, 1971, 1980, and a post-modern coup d'état in 1997. The liberalization ...
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  • mother and her lover Mortimer. He thus staged a coup, exiled his mother up in Castle Rising, and sent Mortimer to the Tower of London, where he was sentenced to ...
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  • The Carnation Revolution's coup d'état in 1974, replaced an authoritarian ... by the October 5th revolution of 1910, and the coup d'état on May 28, 1926 ...
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  • which Ahmad Shah never effectively recovered. With a coup d'état in February 1921, Reza Khan (ruled as Reza Shah Pahlavi, 1925-41) became the preeminent ...
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  • I was deported to Madeira, after an unsuccessful coup d'état. He died there one year later. In July 1, 1976, following the democratic revolution of ...
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  • military toppled M'Ba in a bloodless coup on February 18, 1964. French ... Opposition to the PDG continued, however, and in September 1990, two coup ...
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  • most previous presidents had done) there was a coup, followed by the second formal ... president in 1990, but was deposed in a coup shortly after his inauguration ...
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  • In 1974 a military coup d'etat allowed Lieutenant Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam to rise to power as the new head of state in Ethiopia. His 17-year rule ...
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  • control. The rising was intended to be a swift coup d'etat, but was botched; ... uprising of 1934. Warned that a military coup was imminent, leftists put barricades ...
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  • how it began, and concerned that a communist coup was about to be launched. Delmer viewed Van der Lubbe as solely responsible, but believed that the Nazis ...
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  • of the Chinese, staged a bloody palace coup on December 4, 1884 with the ... Shih-kai's command ended the Progressives coup, killing a handful of Progressive ...
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  • From 1991 through 1994, following the military coup d'état against President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, thousands of Haitians fled violence and repression ...
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  • opponent to Charles de Gaulle in publishing Le Coup d'Etat permanent (The permanent ... which he accused of being a "Permanent Coup d'Etat" (title of his ...
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  • Sengge was killed by Tseten Tayiji during a coup in 1670. Sengge's younger brother Galdan (1644-1697) immediately returned to secular life and took ...
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  • fleeing from Jehu of Israel during the latter's coup against Ahaziah's ally Joram of Israel about 842 B.C.E. Hundreds of Phoenician ivories have been discovered ...
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  • his Imperial Guard forces staged an unsuccessful coup attempt, briefly proclaiming Haile Selassie I's eldest son Asfa Wossen as the new Emperor. The coup ...
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  • March 1952, Batista seized power in a military coup, with Prío fleeing to Mexico ... their earlier success with the 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état, in March 1960, ...
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  • several Italian ones, and planned a coup to coincide with an Italian offensive ... Nasser and the Free Officers seized on this situation to launch a coup on ...
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  • Imam (who was also King) was deposed in a republican coup in 1962. ===Ismail's Lineage=== The Ismaili Imams are today known as the Aga Khans—the present ...
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  • Pedro II was deposed on November 15, 1889, by a republican military coup ... The military took office in Brazil in a coup d'état in 1964 and remained ...
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  • The East King was murdered by the North King during a coup d'etat in 1856, and the North King himself was subsequently killed. The kings' names were: ...
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  • involved in Jose Sanjurjo's attempted coup that year. As a side result of ... and, as presented to Franco by Mola, the coup was unavoidable and he had to ...
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  • sparked mass protests in Belgrade and a military coup d'état led by Air Force commander General Dušan Simović, who proclaimed King Peter II to be of age ...
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  • party, the "Kadets." After the Bolsheviks coup d'etat against the Provisional Government he wrote and organized against the new government before ...
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  • and Achitophel (1681), a poem about the attempted coup of King Charles II by his illegitimate son recast as King David and Absalom from the Book of Samuel, and ...
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  • and the economy, and on October 12, 1999, a coup d'etat by the military placed ... economy, the Kashmir crisis and the military coup], salon.com. The morale of its ...
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  • was instrumental in assisting with the Coup of 18 Fructidor, which ousted ... Lucien Bonaparte, was instrumental in the 1799 coup d'état of 18 Brumaire, ...
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  • officers in 1975. The exact reason for the coup remains unclear, though Rahman ... in power was elected or the result of a coup. == Education == ...
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  • of most of the Netherlands precipitated a coup, which toppled De Witt and allowed William III, Prince of Orange, to seize power. William III entered into ...
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  • ===Sunga coup (185 B.C.E.)=== Brhadrata was assassinated in 185 B.C.E. during a military parade by the commander-in-chief of his guard, the Brahmin general ...
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  • they resigned them. The military league attempted a coup d'état called the Goudi Pronunciamento, and the King insisted on supporting the duly elected Hellenic ...
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  • General Park Chung-hee led a military coup (the "5.16 coup d'etat ... In 1980, General Chun Doo-hwan launched a coup d'etat against the transitional ...
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  • to the Moldovan Parliament. During the 1991 August coup d'état in Moscow against Mikhail Gorbachev, commanders of the Soviet Union's Southwestern Theater ...
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  • officer Muammar Abu Minyar al-Gaddafi staged a coup d’état against King Idris ... An abortive coup attempt in May 1984, apparently mounted by Libyan exiles ...
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  • In March 1992, the opposition attempted a coup d'état, but their attempt ... After staging another coup attempt in December 1993, the opposition organized ...
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  • organization, which gained power by a coup d'etat and initiated revolutionary changes for which there were no economic preconditions in Russia. Instead ...
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  • (1950) ISBN 978-0233989136 (prophecy of the Guatemala coup d'état of 1954, see "In the Lair of the Octopus" Dreaming War) *The Judgment of ...
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  • François Charles Augereau to Paris to lead a coup d'etat and purge the royalists ... ===The coup of 18 Brumaire=== While in Egypt, Bonaparte tried to keep a close ...
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  • ambitions of the Avar khans, whose greatest coup was the defeat of the 100,000 ... In March 1992, the opposition attempted a coup d'état, but their attempt ...
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  • Vasco Núñez de Balboa (1475–January 15, 1519) was a Spanish explorer, colonial governor, and Conquistador. He is known principally for having crossed ...
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  • The country is one of the few in Africa never to have had a coup d'état, and regular elections have been held for almost a century; however, the vast ...
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  • #039;s response was to assist in the coup d'état of the president ... In 1963, the Kennedy administration backed a coup against the government ...
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  • in 1974 in response to an Athens-engineered coup which had overthrown the legitimate ... goal of unification with Greece precipitated a coup d'etat against President ...
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  • after the war, particularly after the communist coup, the establishment of Israel in 1948, and the Soviet invasion in 1968. In the early 1990s, the Jewish community ...
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  • military maneuvering, he saved the Empire from a coup d'etat. When Kangxi returned to Beijing in December 1712, he was enraged, and removed the Crown Prince ...
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  • after he was accused of involvement in a failed 1997 coup attempt. After retiring, Kaunda was involved in various charitable organizations. From 2002 to 2004 ...
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  • Within 18 months, the Iranian economy was in ruins. On August 19, 1953, ... The Shah, who had left the country briefly to await the outcome of the coup ...
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  • of Nu, which had been overthrown by Win in a coup d'etat on March 2, 1962. Win ordered that Thant be buried without any official involvement or ceremony. ...
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  • The Moscow trials were a series of show trials held by the Soviet Union between 1936 and 1938 at the instigation of Joseph Stalin. They were nominally directed ...
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  • ==Xinyou Coup: Ousting Sushun== [[Image:The Cixi Imperial Dowager Empess ... This palace coup is known as the "Xinyou Palace Coup" (Chinese: ...
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  • In 1980, Auerbach made his last great coup — convincing NBA colleagues that he coveted guard Darrell Griffith, and coaxing the Golden State Warriors to ...
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  • In 1895, Cecil Rhodes sponsored a failed coup d'état backed by an armed incursion, known as the Jameson Raid. The failure to gain improved rights for ...
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  • is sometimes credited for providing the coup de grace to Zeus's skull that allowed Athena to emerge into the world. In the second, the sexually-repressed ...
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  • King Ferdinand I and organizing a coup. Eventually, Lenin decided in ... As the coup was under preparation in December 1917, Rakovsky was present ...
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  • in 1958 amidst turmoil and threats of a right-wing coup d'Etat to protect "French Algeria," the decolonization was completed with the independence ...
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  • toward a more democratic government, but a failed coup d'état nudged him toward the leadership style of his predecessor. An economic crisis took effect in ...
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  • articles and several books, including Sian (X’ian, A Coup d’Etat, 1937); This Is Our China (1940); China Shall Rise Again (1942); and The Sure Victory (1955). ...
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  • Silla's political troubles began in 768, when Kim Daegong planned a coup, leading to a three year battle. A series of assassinations of kings followed ...
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  • the rank of Major General. An attempted coup d'etat on September 30, ... ===Abortive coup and anti-communist purge=== [[Image:Suharto at funeral.jpg ...
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  • that the dismissal marked the start of a coup by royalist elements. Liberal ... de Broglie might still unleash a pro-Royalist coup to force them to adopt the order ...
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  • Both Qutb and the Muslim Brotherhood welcomed the coup against the monarchist government—which they saw as unIslamic and subservient to British imperialism ...
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  • answer until Hell freezes over." In a diplomatic coup, Stevenson then showed photographs that proved the existence of missiles in Cuba, just after the Soviet ...
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  • Army officers with ties to the Ba'ath Party overthrew Qassim in a coup ... Army acted as a counterweight against any coup attempts by the regular armed ...
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  • in 1974, after Juan Perón's death. The military coup of 1976, led by Jorge Rafael Videla, only escalated this conflict; the subsequent "Dirty War" ...
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  • speech was intended to inspire them to stage a coup d'etat and restore the Emperor ... members. Mishima must have known that his coup plot would never succeed. Mishima ...
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  • Revolution," it was more nearly a coup d'état, with one faction ultimately successful in deposing James II and installing William of Orange in power. ...
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  • Bangkok, known in Thai as Krung Thep Maha Nakhon (IPA: [kruŋtʰeːp mahaːnakʰɔn] , Th-Krung Thep Maha Nakhon.ogg|กรุงเทพมหานคร ...
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  • brother. Unfortunately Scheherazade’s initial coup attempt fails and she is sold into slavery, many adventures then ensue. Maria Montez and Jon Hall also starred ...
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  • de facto leader of China for 47 years. She staged a coup d'état to oust the regency led by Sushun appointed by the late Emperor. She was known for her "behind ...
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  • Georgia, but was soon deposed in a bloody coup d'état. The country became embroiled in civil war that lasted almost until 1995. In 1995, Eduard Shevardnadze ...
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  • abandoning his old strategy of a swift coup d'état to change society ... "told the FBI that al-Jihad had planned a coup in Egypt in 1990." Al-Zawahiri ...
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  • von Battenberg abdicated in 1886 following a coup d'état staged by pro-Russian ... reaction, and on June 9 there was a coup, after which Stamboliykski was ...
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  • flight served as a significant public relations coup for the Soviets. He received many medals from different countries for his pioneering tour in outer space. ...
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  • and typographic experimentation also emerged in Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard by Stéphane Mallarmé, anticipating Dada and concrete poetry ...
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  • * Gettlin, Robert and Len Colodny. Silent Coup: The Removal of a President. St. Martin's Press, 1991. ISBN 978-0312051565 * Nixon, Richard. The White ...
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  • Alan Watkins, A Conservative Coup (Duckworth, 1992), p. 105. Macmillan's speech was much commented on and a few days later Macmillan made a speech in ...
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  • acquisition of the collection was seen as a coup for the Met.Thomas Hoving, Making ... collection of photographs, a particular coup considering the high demand for ...
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  • Francis II became king at the age of 15. In what has been called a coup d'état, the Cardinal of Lorraine and the Duke of Guise—whose niece, Mary ...
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  • Brooklyn, New York in 1871 with William Cameron Coup, he established "P. T. Barnum's Grand Traveling Museum, Menagerie, Caravan & Hippodrome," ...
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  • the king and the queen dowager, Lü staged a coup d'etat and had the king ... false report that Prince Ju was conducting a coup. Enraged, Emperor Wu ordered ...
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  • Several coup attempts were made during Claudius' reign, resulting in ... 26. The truth is likely more political. The coup attempt by Silius probably made ...
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  • Lagos, Nigeria, when the military attempted a coup. Pelé was trapped in a hotel ... how-pele-was-trapped-in-lagos-during-the-1976-coup-id6977385.html "How football ...
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  • Later Confucian scholars criticized Yeon for the coup and the regicide that brought him to power, portraying him as a disloyal subject who sought personal power ...
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  • Jehoiada was supported by Levites in his violent coup against the pro-Baalist Queen Athaliah of Judah, successfully establishing the boy-king Joash on the throne ...
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  • a Stalin-directed republic, dictated at gun point in a coup d'etat devised by Dr. Petru Groza, whose government was backed up by the Soviet armies of occupation ...
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  • that the sitting government was indeed deposed. Unlike coup d'état or putsch which imply action of a few, the 1956 revolution was effected by the masses. ...
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  • proposal, which Bormann portrayed as an attempted coup d'état. On April 25, Hitler ordered the SS to arrest Göring. On April 26, Hitler dismissed Göring as ...
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  • the government of Guatemala' in a 1954 coup against President Jacobo Arbenz Guzman (1913-1971) who was suspected of Communist leanings. ===Domestic policy=== ...
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  • ally, Ahaziah of Judah, was also put to death in the coup. Jehu turned next to Jezebel, and the queen-mother died after being thrown down from a high window ...
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  • the dispute, and even after that a military coup was attempted to prevent the ... thwarted by fanatic soldiers who attempted a coup against the emperor. ...
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  • This unpopular war lasted until the military coup of April 1974. The new government ... this was strongly resisted by Portugal until the 1974 coup. On the other ...
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  • approval for President Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte's coup d'état in France without previously consulting the Prime Minister. The period during which ...
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  • to seize power or a strategy to plan a future coup. Lenin fled to Finland and other ... to become frightened by the possibility of a coup and the order was countermanded ...
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  • was generally in favor of encouraging a coup while the Pentagon and CIA were ... executed along with his brother. After the coup, Kennedy appeared genuinely shocked ...
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  • on February 1, 1908, and was the center of a coup on October 5, 1910, which installed ... Carnation Revolution a left-leaning military coup that began on April 25, 1974. ...
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  • In July 1973, Zahir Shah was ousted in a bloodless coup and Kabul became the capital of a republic under Mohammad Daoud Khan (1909–1978), the new president ...
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  • who placed Emperor Guangxu under house arrest in a coup d'état. Further destruction followed the ill-fated 1900 Boxer Rebellion against westerners in Beijing ...
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  • Emperor Yang had been killed at Jiangdu in a coup led by the general Yuwen Huaji ... to kill Yeon. When Yeon heard this, he began a coup and killed the king and the high ...
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  • On January 25, 1971, Obote's government was ousted in a military coup led by armed forces commander Idi Amin Dada (1925–2003).Library of Congress ...
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  • A rebellion or coup d'état against President Vásquez broke out in February 1930 in Santiago. title= Golpe de Estado a Horacio Vásquez|url= http://www ...
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  • In 1949, Syria's national government was overthrown by a military coup ... On March 8, 1963, the Baath Arab Socialist Party came to power in a coup ...
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  • Ziaur Rahman, in an abortive military coup in Chittagong on May 30, 1981, Khaleda Zia had taken little interest in either politics or public life. Even when ...
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  • Napoleon's arrival from Egypt led to the fall of the Directory in the ... resolved to take control of the government there in a coup. In Europe, the ...
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  • to persuade Sviatoslav to support Kalokyros in a coup against the reigning Byzantine emperor. As a remuneration for his help, Sviatoslav was supposed to retain ...
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  • adviser, Solly Zuckerman. King wanted to stage a coup against the then crisis-stricken Labour Government of Harold Wilson, and urged Mountbatten to become the leader ...
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  • elected president but overthrown and murdered in a coup d'état in 1913 led by a conservative general named Victoriano Huerta after a secret council held with ...
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  • security council. Gandhi's greatest coup was on August 9, when she signed ... The Indian Army merely provided the coup de grace to what the people of ...
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  • immediately after the failed military coup of monarchist General Lavr Kornilov ... Kerensky government considered this a kind of coup, and moved to shut down the Bolshevik ...
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  • by the Preußenschlag ("Prussian coup") of Reich Chancellor Franz von Papen. In this coup d'etat, the government of the Reich unseated the ...
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  • advantage of this, Pizarro carried out a coup d’état, taking the emperor ... In 1968, General Juan Velasco Alvarado led a coup d'etat replacing ...
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  • climax when Lord Palmerston on the occurrence of the coup d'état by which Louis Napoleon, President since 1848, made himself master of France, expressed to ...
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  • back some of Gorbachev's reforms through a coup d'etat. When the coup failed, the Soviet Union collapsed, and was dissolved on December 25th, 1991. ...
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  • nine years of civilian government, a military coup in 1969 brought Siad Barre into power. A peace accord was signed with Ethiopia in 1988. As well as nationalizing ...
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  • Congress Party, which came to power by military coup in 1989, is the majority partner. The agreement stipulates national elections in 2009. Sudan is divided ...
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  • military officers opposed to the treaty launched a coup d'état when the king returned on March 27. Army General Dušan Simović seized power, arrested the Vienna ...
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  • gave at least implicit help to Augusto Pinochet's coup in 1973, and then helped set up Operation Condor. In the 1972 presidential election, Nixon was ...
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