7 sentences with “overthrow”

In 1962, the US Central Intelligence Agency organised a failed attempt to overthrow Cuban communist leader Fidel Castro, an event known as the Bay of Pigs Invasion.

The problem of Marxist theory that Russian Marxists faced was that, according to Marx, a revolution could only occur in an advanced industrial society. The proletariat would recognise that it had "nothing to lose but its chains" and would overthrow the bourgeois order.

The immediate impetus for the Truman Doctrine was a conflict that broke out in Greece after World War II, in which the communist resistance movement that had fought the Nazis during the war sought to overthrow the right-wing, monarchist government of Greece in the aftermath.

In 1815, Russia, together with Austria and Prussia (and, technically, the restored French monarchy), formed the Holy Alliance which promised to crush attempts to overthrow the social and political order by force. For Austria, this was a pragmatic gesture because the Habsburgs had the most to lose from nationalism.

The exceptions were countries like Iran that sought to nationalise national industries: the US sponsored a coup to overthrow Prime Minister Mohammed Mosadeq in 1953 for trying to assert Iranian ownership of its own oil fields, replacing him with a corrupt king, Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, who was beholden to US interests.

Italian nationalist leader Giuseppe Mazzini founded Young Italy in 1831, calling for a "springtime of the peoples" in which the peoples of every "nation" in Europe would overthrow conservative monarchs and assert their sovereignty and independence. That movement would quickly spread beyond Italy: "young" became the word and the idea of nationalism.

Despite the complete lack of links between Hussein's regime and Al Qaeda, and despite the absence of the "weapons of mass destruction" used as the official excuse for the war, the US launched a full-scale invasion in 2002 to overthrow Hussein. This was easily accomplished, as once again the Iraqi army proved utterly incapable of containing US forces.