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turmoil and
democratic reversals.
Between 1930 and 1976, the
armed forces overthrew six
governments in Argentina; and the
country alternated periods of democracy...
- of
Silla overthrew King
Minae and
installed King
Sinmu on the throne. 1010, Goryeo:
General Kang Cho of
Goryeo staged a coup that
overthrew King Mokjong...
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million by the time of the
census in 1300. A
peasant named Zhu
Yuanzhang overthrew the Yuan in 1368 and
founded the Ming
dynasty as the
Hongwu Emperor. Under...
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glasnost and perestroika. In 1989,
various countries of the
Warsaw Pact
overthrew their Soviet-backed regimes, and
nationalist and
separatist movements...
- and
democratic centralism.
After the
February Revolution of 1917
which overthrew the tsar,
Lenin returned to
Russia and
issued his
April Theses, which...
- eventually, the
October Revolution, led by
Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin,
overthrew the
Provisional Government and gave full
governing power to the soviets...
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characterized by
significant reforms. Pro-American
elements in
Hawaii overthrew the
Hawaiian monarchy; the
islands were
annexed in 1898.
Puerto Rico,...
- long-term
president France Albert René came to
power after his
supporters overthrew the
first president James Mancham on 5 June 1977 in a coup d'état and...
- the
British against her
oldest ally. On 5
October 1910, a coup d'état
overthrew the near 800 year-old
Monarchy and the
Republic was proclaimed. During...
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special tax
penalty ("jizya"), and
language shift. In 750, the
Abbasids overthrew the Umayyads.
Arabs Muslims and
Persians of all
strata made up the rebel...