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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 ...34 KB (5,153 words) - 01:46, 14 December 2022
- 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 ...62 KB (9,032 words) - 21:37, 4 June 2023
- (it had been under the Ottomans) but he fell to a coup led by Prince Abdul Aziz bin Saud in 1924, founder of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Lawrence, although ...26 KB (3,995 words) - 08:51, 18 November 2022
- and land-based craft. During the attempted coup of February 26, 1936, in which ... the extent to which the American intelligence coup derailed the operation before ...45 KB (7,129 words) - 05:57, 11 March 2024
- Gustavo Rojas (1900-1975) deposed the president in a coup d'etat and negotiated with the guerrillas, and then under the military junta of General Gabriel París ...27 KB (3,998 words) - 00:39, 29 November 2023
- led by Colonel Adib al-Shishakli, led a third coup that year. A further coup on ... 1961, to be overthrown in a bloodless military coup on March 8, 1963, by the Baath ...53 KB (7,689 words) - 00:57, 21 April 2023
- Furthermore, Shaw's praise of the USSR made the trip seem like a coup for Soviet propaganda and made her presence there disturbing for the Tories. ...36 KB (5,899 words) - 01:16, 11 November 2022
- by Yuwen Huaji, the Emperor of Xu (who had led the coup that killed Emperor Yang in 618), Wei went to Yuan to persuade him to submit to Tang. Yuan did so. Wei went ...33 KB (5,278 words) - 23:26, 3 May 2023
- it can oppose it, for example to resist a military coup. In some circumstances, the "enemies" against which a militia is mobilized are domestic political ...26 KB (3,981 words) - 10:59, 10 March 2023
- When Edward III turned 18, he and a few trusted companions staged a coup on October 19, 1330 and had both Isabella and Mortimer taken prisoner. The final ...25 KB (3,939 words) - 02:58, 8 March 2024
- Soon after, the Kornilov Affair (a failed military coup) paved the way for the Bolsheviks to seize power in the October Revolution. ==Bolsheviks and the ...40 KB (5,691 words) - 16:00, 22 July 2022
- the tsar had already survived an attempted coup by Major General Lavr Kornilov. Bryant and Reed entered the city after the Kornilov Affair and before the ...42 KB (6,349 words) - 09:05, 9 March 2023
- #039;athist officer who seized power through a coup d'etat in 1970, established ... ttp://newfocusintl.com/just-witnessed-coup-north-korea/ "We have just ...57 KB (8,108 words) - 06:45, 11 January 2024
- placed in a position of responsibility should their coup succeed. At the same time, local Nazi party officials, during the time Rommel was hospitalized, reported ...24 KB (3,681 words) - 21:24, 20 March 2024
- general named Yi Seonggye (1380-1400) carried out a coup d'etat, and established himself as the first ruler of the Joseon dynasty under the reign title of Taejo ...32 KB (4,825 words) - 20:07, 15 August 2021
- thought to have between 50-100 feathers on his coup stick, each one representing ... and the occasion. He placed his war-bonnet and coup stick upon the tomb, and they ...59 KB (8,584 words) - 13:12, 10 March 2023
- quot; with hawks, taking turns "counting coup" while escorting the raptor out of their territory. Their attacks on owls, on the other hand, possess ...26 KB (3,938 words) - 06:28, 11 January 2024
- In May 1796, he led a failed coup d'Etat with neo-Robespierrists to return the republic to the Montagnard Constitution of 1793 in the Conspiracy of Equals. ...49 KB (6,809 words) - 17:38, 1 July 2022
- The film Shiri portrays a North Korean spy preparing a coup in Seoul. The film set a record in Korean cinema history by selling more than 2 million tickets in Seoul ...25 KB (3,777 words) - 02:45, 8 January 2024
- and Anatolia. Instability and successive coup d'etats marked the following ... and the rise of the center-left led to a coup d’etat on April 21, 1967, by ...73 KB (10,722 words) - 18:19, 27 January 2023
- and the trade was seen as a public relations coup for the Mets. Mets owner Joan Whitney Payson, who was a minority shareholder of the Giants when the team ...29 KB (4,418 words) - 15:22, 14 May 2023
- Jovanic), and even allegations of preparation for a coup d'etat by the latter pair. Certain unofficial reports suggest Tito and Jovanka even formally divorced ...26 KB (3,964 words) - 05:28, 7 May 2024
- 1986 (oil on canvas); and the plein-air premier-coup paintings of Nebraska by Keith Jacobshagen such as N.W. 84th St. & Agnew Rd 1983 (oil on paper). Others ...34 KB (5,216 words) - 16:33, 21 February 2022
- Jobs had been attempting to organize a boardroom coup, and on May 24, 1985, called a board meeting to resolve the matter. Apple's board of directors sided ...55 KB (7,618 words) - 00:27, 26 February 2023
- and once more about poverty. In 1232 a sort of coup d’état replaced Pafrenti with Elia. Butler (1911) describes Elia's leadership as “despotic ...33 KB (5,300 words) - 04:52, 9 April 2024
- in 1799, when Napoleon Bonaparte staged the coup which installed the Consulate ... roots were not very deep and there was a coup in 1958. In Russia, the absolute ...75 KB (11,285 words) - 09:26, 28 January 2024
- This "slow motion coup" was averted partially due to pressure ... [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4296818.stm Nicaragua 'creeping ...59 KB (8,536 words) - 09:43, 11 March 2023
- Japan made two invasions of Korea, in 1592 and 1596, starting a war that lasted until, including a truce period, 1598. They are also known as Hideyoshi& ...42 KB (6,114 words) - 09:44, 1 April 2024
- 1943. In July 1943, King Vittorio Emanuele III staged a coup d'etat against Mussolini, having him arrested. In September 1943 Italy surrendered. It was immediately ...48 KB (6,888 words) - 16:16, 22 September 2021
- nation around him falls victim to a military coup. Upon reading an advance copy ... region of the country as part of a larger coup attempt. Commanders in other ...79 KB (12,034 words) - 17:05, 10 December 2023
- Imperial Japan, Nazi Germany, and Fascist Italy), and a coup d'état, Yugoslavia was finally invaded by Germany on April 6, 1941. ===World War II=== ...64 KB (9,164 words) - 19:47, 20 November 2023
- death, he was arrested and removed from office in a coup d'etat in mid-1953. His successor, Nikita Khrushchev, firmly rejected the idea of handing eastern ...36 KB (5,407 words) - 17:16, 4 May 2023
- After the ascension of Napoleon III through a coup in France and Otto von Bismarck ... was overthrown in a bloodless and successful coup d'etat which was launched ...61 KB (9,426 words) - 14:18, 1 October 2022
- Qassim, who had just taken control over Iraq by a coup d'etat, openly declared: "We do not wish to refer to the history of Arab tribes residing in Al ...36 KB (5,506 words) - 17:42, 29 January 2024
- In 1924, Feng Yuxiang took control of Beijing in a coup. Denouncing the previous agreement with the Qing imperial house, Feng expelled Puyi from the Palace ...44 KB (6,677 words) - 06:19, 1 April 2024
- Following an 827 failed Sicilian coup attempt against an unpopular Byzantine governor, Euphemius, a wealthy landowner, declared himself Emperor and invited ...34 KB (5,061 words) - 14:33, 27 January 2023
- sometimes as the result of a military coup, and international funds were often used to prop up dictatorships. Critics of this practice argued that this ...32 KB (4,747 words) - 12:59, 7 February 2023
- (which denounced de Gaulle as the agent of a fascist coup). Jean-Paul Sartre is quoted as saying "I would rather vote for God." On May 29 the French President ...41 KB (6,470 words) - 02:09, 13 January 2023
- The Khmer Rouge was the ruling political party of Cambodia—which it renamed the Democratic Kampuchea—from 1975 to 1979. The term "Khmer Rouge," ...47 KB (7,141 words) - 22:57, 3 March 2023
- death, he was arrested and removed from office in a coup d'etat in mid-1953. His successor, Nikita Khrushchev, firmly rejected the idea of handing eastern ...42 KB (6,175 words) - 17:37, 12 February 2024
- bombings, and, on August 23, 1944, saw the royal coup which brought Romania into the anti-German camp, suffering a short but destructive period of Luftwaffe bombings ...32 KB (4,507 words) - 16:51, 22 November 2023
- National Guard troops and fended off the illegal "coup d'etat." Long then went to the Louisiana Supreme Court in order to have Cyr ousted as lieutenant ...48 KB (7,371 words) - 15:05, 9 February 2024
- and Pisander. At Samos, however, a similar coup instigated by the conspirators ... policy that he had supported since before the coup. Then he sailed to retrieve Alcibiades ...78 KB (11,681 words) - 05:06, 17 June 2023
- to poor and attracting enemies. Via an 1866 coup d'etat, also known as the ... In August 1944, a coup led by King Mihai deposed the Antonescu dictatorship ...64 KB (9,341 words) - 04:57, 16 December 2022
- learned that General Claude de Malet had attempted a coup d’état back in France. He abandoned the army and returned home on a sleigh, leaving Marshal Joachim ...45 KB (6,717 words) - 10:59, 11 April 2024
- in Pride's Purge, the first and only military coup in English history. This paved the way for King Charles I to be beheaded and for the Upper House to be abolished ...50 KB (8,030 words) - 02:42, 22 November 2023
- off East Germany as a communist state. A communist coup in Prague in 1948 made Czechoslovakia an effective Soviet satellite soon afterward, and it would remain ...33 KB (4,974 words) - 12:47, 1 February 2024
- that it was his failure at least to condemn the coup d'etat and subsequent dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet in Chile that ultimately led to his not receiving ...30 KB (4,821 words) - 06:22, 6 May 2024
- ranking figures in the army began to plan a coup. When Falangist politician José ... (under his presidency there was an attempted coup d'état on February 23, ...115 KB (17,210 words) - 19:06, 7 February 2023
- In August 1933, elements of the Cuban army staged a coup which deposed Machado ... of winning the 1952 election, he staged a coup (March 10, 1952) and held power ...72 KB (10,971 words) - 06:40, 11 January 2024
- soldiers in defense of the Revolution, Kornilov's coup was an abysmal failure and he was placed under arrest. The so-called Kornilov Affair resulted in significantly ...37 KB (5,152 words) - 21:52, 28 November 2022
- had them arrested and proceeded with the coup. Unknown to him, Kahr and the ... Having failed in overthrowing the republic by a coup, Hitler now pursued ...75 KB (11,428 words) - 06:03, 15 June 2023
- Muammar Gaddafi in Libya, or the 1974 coup in Ethiopia leading to the rule of the Marxist Derg. These Cold War supported conflicts worried western observers ...37 KB (5,599 words) - 20:03, 8 December 2022
- their excellent cavalry moved in to deliver the coup de grace. On the other hand, the Ασπις (aspis), the heavy shield of the hoplites, was capable of protecting ...53 KB (8,041 words) - 10:05, 22 September 2023
- now a lieutenant general, overthrew Kasavubu in a coup. He had U.S. support because of his staunch opposition to communism. A one-party system was established ...43 KB (6,213 words) - 09:27, 28 January 2024
- century. Merovingian rule was ended by a palace coup in 751 when Pippin the Short formally deposed Childeric III, beginning the Carolingian monarchy. ...109 KB (16,195 words) - 06:41, 1 April 2024
- one year after the Kargil invasion and the subsequent coup in Pakistan, it was read to reflect a major shift in the post-Cold War U.S. foreign policy. The Indian ...47 KB (6,896 words) - 18:41, 19 August 2023
- [http://www.jmu.edu/monty/FuriousFlower.shtml Coup of the Century.] Retrieved February 12, 2009. This view of African American literature is grounded in ...45 KB (6,844 words) - 06:04, 16 June 2023
- A communist coup on Grenada in 1983 led the administration to invade the small island island, which successfully removed the communist government and Cuban ...55 KB (8,232 words) - 05:01, 16 December 2022
- four contentious years, following the attempted coup d'etat in Moscow and the subsequent collapse of the Soviet Union. The first country to diplomatically ...40 KB (5,692 words) - 04:22, 22 March 2024
- famous fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989), the Soviet coup attempt of 1991 and collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991. Other noteworthy events include the implementation ...49 KB (7,114 words) - 22:28, 7 January 2024
- flying a Japanese seaplane over France in a propaganda coup. United States. Japanese submarines. ONI 220-J. (Washington: Publications and Distribution Branch ...62 KB (9,133 words) - 16:43, 12 February 2024
- Saint-Just and Robespierre were arrested in the coup of 9 Thermidor (27 July 1794) and executed the next day along with many of their allies from the Commune. ...66 KB (9,644 words) - 18:02, 26 November 2022
- make the city’s capture an ideological and propaganda coup. Stalin realized this and ordered anyone that was strong enough to hold a rifle be sent out to war. ...43 KB (6,775 words) - 01:36, 26 September 2023
- during the Kargil War of 1999. This led to the coup d'etat bringing Pervez Musharraf to power in Pakistan. ==Economy== [[Image:Kashmir Dal lake boat ...52 KB (7,879 words) - 07:24, 5 October 2022
- first when Gustavo Rojas deposed the president in a coup d'etat and negotiated with the guerrillas, and then under the military junta of General Gabriel París ...40 KB (5,666 words) - 22:37, 7 January 2024
- Cossack Brigade, used his troops to support a coup against the government of the ... leaving 300 dead. The operation triggered a coup, and within days, pro-Shah tanks ...82 KB (12,001 words) - 11:17, 6 March 2024
- was an attempt to depose Akayev in Kyrgyzstan. The coup collapsed the following week. Akayev and Vice President German Kuznetsov resigned from the Communist ...39 KB (5,879 words) - 16:28, 21 March 2024
- on March 25, but the government was overthrown in a coup which replaced it with a pro-Allied government. This prompted the Germans to invade Yugoslavia on April 6 ...70 KB (11,168 words) - 13:51, 20 May 2023
- which had seized control of the country in a coup d'etat against Alexander Kerensky's Provisional Government. Persistent rumors of her possible ...45 KB (6,850 words) - 00:19, 3 January 2024
- for "love at first sight" is coup de foudre and colpo di fulmine, respectively, which literally translated mean "bolt of lightning." ...51 KB (7,568 words) - 08:38, 8 March 2023
- state. However, on August 19, 1991, a coup against Gorbachev, conspired by senior Soviet officials, was attempted. The coup faced wide popular opposition ...137 KB (20,217 words) - 18:16, 22 December 2022
- terms in office, they had talked about a possible coup to take over the government. On a separate track, elements within MI5 had also, the BBC programme reported ...47 KB (7,170 words) - 20:22, 29 January 2022
- However, German and Austrian diplomats scored a great coup by convincing Bulgaria to join in a new attack on Serbia. The conquest of Serbia was finally accomplished ...72 KB (11,195 words) - 13:50, 20 May 2023
- might resign, or instigate a military coup, if Scott were not removed. Lincoln attempted futilely to forge a reconciliation between the two generals, instead ...67 KB (10,321 words) - 07:02, 18 April 2024
- D. Eisenhower, the British and Americans backed a coup that toppled the elected government and returned power to the shah. Second, in 1952, the Mau Mau rebellion ...65 KB (10,388 words) - 23:13, 17 May 2023
- year Hormizd was overthrown by a palace coup and his son Khosrau II (590-628) placed on the throne, but this change of ruler failed to placate Bahram, who ...72 KB (11,035 words) - 16:49, 23 December 2022
- Republic were not established until 1922. The 1926 May Coup of Józef Piłsudski overthrew the government of President Stanisław Wojciechowski and Prime Minister ...71 KB (10,329 words) - 17:32, 2 January 2024
- of Francisco I. Madero staged a successful coup. The center of the city was subjected to artillery attacks from the army stronghold of the ciudadela or citadel ...184 KB (26,093 words) - 20:54, 1 February 2024
- century. Merovingian rule was ended by a palace coup in 751 when Pippin the Short formally deposed Childeric III, beginning the Carolingian monarchy. ...115 KB (16,736 words) - 17:52, 14 December 2023
