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- DictionaryPutsch/po͝oCH/
noun
- 1. a violent attempt to overthrow a government.
1 day ago · The 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, also known as the August Coup, [b] was a failed attempt by hardliners of the Soviet Union 's Communist Party to forcibly seize control of the country from Mikhail Gorbachev, who was Soviet President and General Secretary of the Communist Party at the time.
- 19-22 August 1991(4 days); 32 years ago
- Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
May 6, 2024 · Hitler Putsch (or Beer Hall Putsch) (8–9 Nov. 1923) Source: A Dictionary of Contemporary World History Author(s): Christopher Riches, Jan Palmowski. An abortive coup attempt by *Hitler. With the support of *Ludendorff, he tried to seize power in the Bavarian capital of Munich as a prelude to a March on Berlin akin to ... ...
1 day ago · The Berlin Blockade (24 June 1948 – 12 May 1949) was one of the first major international crises of the Cold War. During the multinational occupation of post–World War II Germany, the Soviet Union blocked the Western Allies ' railway, road, and canal access to the sectors of Berlin under Western control. The Soviets offered to drop the ...
May 15, 2024 · Temporarily in disarray after the failure of Hitler’s Munich Putsch in 1923, the SA was reorganized in 1925 and soon resumed its violent ways, intimidating voters in national and local elections.
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1 day ago · Great Purge. Great Purge. Part of the purges of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. People of Vinnytsia searching through the exhumed victims of the Vinnytsia massacre, 1943. Location. Soviet Union, East Turkestan, Mongolian People's Republic. Date. 1936–1938.
May 10, 2024 · A dictionary definition represents society’s framing of the natural world. This in turn influences our perception of our place within it – and the actions we take to protect nature. So, the ...
May 19, 2024 · In a brief statement on state television, an army spokesman, Brig. Gen. Sylvain Ekenge, initially offered little detail about the purported putsch in the capital, Kinshasa, other than to say that ...
