coup d'état

Examples of coup d'état in the following topics:

• Intervention in Latin America

  • To prevent the spread of communism, the Johnson Administration supported coup d'états in Brazil and the Dominican Republic.
  • American interventions in the Brazilian coup d'état of 1964 and the Dominican Civil War of 1965 are two notable examples.
  • The 1964 Brazilian coup d'état was a series of events that occurred in Brazil on March 31, 1964, that culminated with the overthrow of President João Goulart by the U.S.
  • The coup d'état and civil war in the Dominican Republic was rooted in the election of Juan Bosch as president in 1962, following a period of political instability after the assassination of long-time dictator Rafael Trujillo in 1961.
  • Opposition groups, known as Loyalists, launched a military coup d'état in 1963, effectively negating the 1962 elections by installing a civilian junta dominated by former members of the Trujillo regime and headed by Donald Reid Cabral, an American-educated businessman.

• Monarchies and Liberal Democracies

  • Throughout history, monarchies have been abolished, either through revolutions, legislative reforms, coups d'état or wars.

• Modern Republicanism

  • Dwight D.
  • In the first year of his presidency, Eisenhower deposed the leader of Iran in the 1953 Iranian coup d'état, and used nuclear threats to conclude the Korean War with China.

• American Imperialism

  • On January 17, 1893, the last monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi, Queen Lili'uokalani, was deposed in a coup d'état led largely by American citizens who were opposed to Lili'uokalani's attempt to establish a new Constitution.

• The United States and the World

  • On January 17, 1893, the last monarch of the Kingdom of Hawaiʻi, Queen Lili'uokalani, was deposed in a coup d'état led largely by American citizens who were opposed to Lili'uokalani's attempt to establish a new Constitution.

• The North Africa Campaign

  • President Franklin D.
  • Nevertheless, Vichy French forces put up a strong and bloody resistance to the Allies in Oran and Morocco, but not in Algiers, where a coup d'état by the French resistance on November 8 succeeded in neutralizing the French XIX Corps before the landing and arresting the Vichy commanders.

• The Atomic Bomb

  • After several more days of behind-the-scenes negotiations and a failed coup d'état, Emperor Hirohito gave a recorded radio address across the Empire on August 15.

• The Defeat of Japan

  • After several more days of behind-the-scenes negotiations and a failed coup d'état, Hirohito gave a recorded radio address to the nation on August 15.

• The Allied Push

  • On June 6, 1944 (D-Day), the Western Allies invaded northern France.
  • The Red Army's strategic offensive in eastern Romania cut off and destroyed the considerable German troops there and triggered a successful coup d'état in Romania and in Bulgaria, followed by those countries' shift to the Allied side.
  • Normandy Invasion, June 1944, Troops in an LCVP landing craft approaching "Omaha" Beach on D-Day (June 6, 1944).
  • American troops approaching Omaha Beach, during the Invasion of Normandy on D-Day, June 6, 1944.
  • Discuss the war effort in the latter half of 1944, after D-Day.

• The European Theater

  • The Yugoslav government had signed the Tripartite Pact, only to be overthrown two days later by a British-encouraged coup.
  • On June 6, 1944 (known as D-Day), after three years of Soviet pressure, the Western Allies invaded France.
  • The Red Army's strategic offensive in eastern Romania cut off and destroyed the considerable German troops there and triggered a successful coup d'état in Romania and in Bulgaria, followed by those countries' shift to the Allied side.