Coup d'état

finally gave up and handed independence over to the Algerians. Afterwards, the Algerians became a client state of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Ahmed Ben Bella was elected president of Algeria, but is gotten rid of and deposed in a coup d'etat, or a sudden and violent surge of power from a government, after trying to change and overstep bounds on Socialist ideas. Algerians gaining independence as a country helped them in great ways. One of those was that they didn’t have a choice…

festival, but upon their arrival, the British Indian Army fired at them for ten minutes non-stop. Since they arrived from outside the city, they were uninformed of laws prohibiting freedom of assembly. The British were under the assumption that a coup d’état would occur since thousands of people were gathering in Jallianwala Bagh around May which coincidentally happened to be when British troops withdraw to the hills for the summer. Regardless, Colonel Dyer, the leader of the massacre, returned…

Mu’ammar al-Qadhafi was the leader of Libya from the time he took part in overthrowing the Libyan monarchy in 1969 till the end of his life in 2011. Al-Qadhafi had a very strong conviction of his political ideology, and remained a supporter of pan-Arabism and “Islamic socialism” throughout his reign. Mu’ammar al-Qadhafi 's Green Book was greatly influenced by his upbringing and political events that took place around him during his life, and with great reliance on the ideas of President Gamal…

The Lei Dura or Hard Law’s established the Linha Dura and the Duristas. The Duristas staged a coup within a coup and removed power and purged within the government anybody aligned with the views of Castelo Branco, Socialism, or any other party they deemed a threat to their power. The Duristas ushered and era that no longer aligned itself with any necessary…

terror, a reactionary phase recaptured France and disbanded the Committee of Public Safety. Robespierre is sentenced to death by the guillotine. Thus ending the main stages of the revolution. It was the Napoleonic coup d’état (1799) that ended the French Revolution through a military coup and restoration of order and…

The Buddhist Crisis During the Vietnam War, there was a religious and political movement of Buddhists in South Vietnam. Buddhist were being supressed of their religion. In this time, Vietnam was led by a powerful leader, President Ngo Dinh Diem. He was a pro-catholic leader who was trying to displace many of the Buddhist in South Vietnam. In fear of losing their job, many Buddhists converted to Catholicism, but there were also lots who did not, causing there to be dangerous revolts and protests…

conquered majority of Europe in the early of 19th century. He was born on 15 August 1769 in the island of Corsica. During the French Revolution, Napoleon rise his power in military area in France. After getting a political power in France in a 1799 coup d’état, he crowned himself as an emperor in 1804. Intelligent, ambitious and a skilled military leader, Napoleon successfully waged war against several European countries and also managed to expand his own empire. However, in 1812, after a tragic…

government. Botswana when it got its independence it also was much institutionalized yet it did not go through the conflicts Somalia has gone through. Currently, Botswana is still institutionalized and as of now has never experience an uprising or coup. They are the reasons for this that are presented in the case of Botswana but not in Somalia. First, there is a sense of equality and unity that is not present in Somalia. Botswana has a kotla system, which is a meeting where anyone is allowed to…

involuntary had revealed), covert actions in the Cold War have included a wide range of operations, with different levels of violence involved and plausible deniability: (a) propaganda; (b) political activities; (c) economic activity; (d) sabotage; (e) coups d’état; and (f) paramilitary activities. Speaking in 1999, former DCI Robert Gates highlighted that the Intelligence history of the Cold War experienced large success with covert actions, such as the cases of Iran in 1953 and Guatemala in…

Two military coups in Peru and even though I was very young, I started to understand Peruvian unrest; especially with the 1968 military left-wing coup.” shares Dante. According to Historia del Peru a military coup d’état took place in 1968, and the Constitution of Peru was suspended. General Juan Velasco Alvarado became the President of Peru, and led the Peruvian…