| date
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country
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description
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dead
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| January 23, 1913
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Ottoman Empire
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The Young Turks carried out a military coup on January 23, 1913 under the leadership of Enver Pascha .
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| February 19, 1919
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Germany
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Lotter coup . Attempt by sailors to overthrow the Bavarian Prime Minister Kurt Eisner .
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| April 13, 1919
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Germany
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Palm Sunday coup . Attempt by the republican protection force to overthrow the Munich Soviet republic . 13 representatives of the Soviet republic were arrested. Ultimately, the attempted coup failed due to the resistance of the Munich Red Army, which was being established. The second communist-dominated phase of the Munich Soviet Republic was initiated.
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21st
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| April 18, 1919
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Germany
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Good Friday coup . A communist coup attempt to overthrow the city council in Offenbach am Main and to get hold of the weapons in the barracks on Bieberer Strasse failed.
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17th
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| March 13, 1920
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Germany
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Kapp putsch . The Kapp putsch under Walther von Lüttwitz was directed against the government led by Social Democrats and led to general strikes among the workers. The coup failed after five days.
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| October 1, 1923
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Germany
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Buchrucker putsch . The attempt by Bruno Ernst Buchrucker to occupy the port city of Küstrin with units of the Black Reichswehr in order to later overthrow the Reich government under Chancellor Gustav Stresemann failed.
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| November 8, 1923
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Germany
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The Hitler putsch began with an attack on a major event by the Bavarian State Commissioner General Gustav von Kahr in Munich's Bürgerbräukeller ; a march on Berlin was to follow. Hitler was arrested on November 11, 1923, and the NSDAP was banned across the Reich.
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20th
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| 12-15 May 1926
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Poland
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May coup . Marshal a. D. Józef Piłsudski forced the resignation of the center-right cabinet of Wincenty Witos and the president Stanisław Wojciechowski by taking over some army regiments and military intervention in Warsaw . As a result, Piłsudski took over real power in Poland.
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479
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| July 20, 1932
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Germany
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During the Prussian strike , the Prussian coalition was deprived of government power and transferred to Franz von Papen .
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| 1936
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Spain
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Francisco Franco sparked the Spanish Civil War with his failed coup attempt . Franco won this especially because of the military support of the German Reich . He ruled over the Kingdom of Spain as dictator from 1936 to 1975.
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Including civil war: 190,000 to 500,000
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| March 27, 1941
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Yugoslavia
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The Yugoslav coup was led by Air Force General Dušan Simović . It led to the installation of Peter II Karađorđević and the invasion of Yugoslavia by the Axis powers on April 6, 1941, led by Germany.
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| April 1, 1941
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Iraq
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During the putsch of Raschid Ali al-Gailani , a group around Raschid Ali al-Gailani , supported by the Axis powers , seized power. The British restored the old order militarily.
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| July 20, 1944
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Germany
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The assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler on July 20, 1944 triggered an attempted coup against the political and military leadership of the Nazi dictatorship as part of the Walküre company . However, Hitler survived. The measures of the conspirators following the attack were initiated too late in the relevant places. The coup attempt failed. A large number of those involved in July 20, 1944 were executed.
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| August 14, 1945
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Japan
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On the night of August 14-15, 1945, a group of military personnel occupied the palace in Tokyo . This was the eve of the broadcast of the radio address by Tenno Hirohito on the "Imperial Decree to End the Great East Asian War" (" Gyokuon-hōsō ", Japanese玉 音 放送, German about: "Transmission of the jewel voice", ie the voice of the emperor). They found the statement dishonorable. The troop was led u. a. by Hatanaka Kenji , one of the main conspirators. The aim was to destroy the record. However, the tape could not be found.
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| 15th August 1953
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Iran
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When Operation Ajax of CIA and MI6 was Mohammad Mossadegh overthrown.
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| May 13, 1958
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France
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During the Putsch d'Alger , the French military in Algeria rebelled against the newly formed government in Paris under the Christian Democratic Prime Minister Pierre Pflimlin . Charles de Gaulle came to power; it marked the end of the Fourth Republic and the beginning of the Fifth Republic .
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| May 27, 1960
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Turkey
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Military coup in response to protests against the government of Adnan Menderes , who was subsequently sentenced to death.
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| March 8, 1963
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Syria
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March 8th Revolution
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Successful military coup.
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| February 8, 1963
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Iraq
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| April 1, 1964
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Brazil
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The military deposed João Goulart as president and Marshal Humberto Castelo Branco .
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| January 1, 1966
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Central African Republic
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Jean-Bédel Bokassa deposed his cousin David Dacko as president.
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| April 21, 1967
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Greece
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The military established the Greek military dictatorship in the Kingdom of Greece until 1974.
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| November 13, 1970
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Syria
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The Corrective Revolution brought Hafiz al-Assad to power.
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| January 25, 1971
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Uganda
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President Milton Obote was out of the country when Army Chief Idi Amin usurped power.
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0
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| March 12, 1971
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Turkey
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Military coup in the form of a memorandum .
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| September 11, 1973
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Chile
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In the 1973 coup in Chile , Augusto Pinochet overthrew President Salvador Allende . Allende shot himself when the presidential palace was overthrown.
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| March 24, 1976
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Argentina
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A military coup hit President María Estela Martínez de Perón . The Argentine military dictatorship followed from 1976 to 1983.
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| April 27, 1978
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Afghanistan
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The Acid Revolution led to the seizure of power by members of the Afghan Communist People's Party and the proclamation of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan .
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| 20th September 1979
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Central African Republic
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Operation Barracuda , backed by France, overthrew Emperor Jean-Bédel Bokassa and reinstated former President David Dacko .
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| September 12, 1980
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Turkey
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The military coup of General Kenan Evren was directed against the government of Süleyman Demirel . Evren remained president for seven years.
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| February 23, 1981
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Spain
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The military coup of February 23, 1981 was an unsuccessful attempt by parts of the Guardia Civil and the military to end democracy in Spain and to establish a new dictatorship.
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| 20th September 1981
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Central African Republic
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Chief of Staff André Kolingba overthrew President David Dacko , who was currently abroad, and became President himself.
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| August 19, 1991
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Soviet Union
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During the August coup in Moscow , a group of Communist Party officials tried to depose President Mikhail Gorbachev . He and his wife were detained and isolated from August 18 to August 21. Boris Yeltsin led the opposition to the coup. On December 26, 1991, the Soviet Union was dissolved.
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| February 28, 1997
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Turkey
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“Postmodern coup d'état” against measures taken by the Islamist Welfare Party . These included 18 demands for the protection of secularism .
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