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The term comes from French coup d'État, literally meaning a 'stroke of state' or 'blow of state'. [20] [21] [22] In French, the word État (French:) is capitalized when it denotes a sovereign political entity. [23] Although the concept of a coup d'état has featured in politics since antiquity, the phrase is of relatively recent coinage. [24]
Coup d'état of December Twelfth in South Korea: Major General Chun Doo-hwan led a coup against Choi Kyu-hah, and early the next year installed himself as president. Bolivia: Alberto Natusch enacted a coup against the interim government of Wálter Guevara , but resigned after just sixteen days.
The so-called Revolución Libertadora was a transitional military dictatorship, brought about by a coup d'état which overthrew the president Juan Domingo Perón and lasted between 16 and 23 September 1955. [11] On the last day of this period, the leader of the insurrection, Eduardo Lonardi, was sworn in as president and congress was dissolved.
Coup d'État: A Practical Handbook, first published in 1968, is a book by Edward Luttwak examining the conditions, strategy, planning, and execution of coups d'état. [1] A revised edition of the book, with references to twenty-first century technology, was published in 2016. [ 2 ]
Both the coup and the counter-coup assumed an "ethnic colouration" [4] and they fuelled ethnic violence, contributing to events which ultimately led to the Nigerian civil war. [1] [2] [6] After the end of the war, in October 1970, Gowon reiterated an earlier pledge to ensure that military rule would be terminated on 1 October 1976. In 1974 ...
In November 1963, President Ngô Đình Diệm and the Personalist Labor Revolutionary Party of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) were deposed by a group of CIA-backed Army of the Republic of Vietnam officers who disagreed with Diệm's handling of the Buddhist crisis and the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong threat to South Vietnam.
Guineans in support of the coup d'état on a truck, 5 September 2021 Guineans rallying in support of the coup d'état in Conakry, 5 September 2021 Junta leader Colonel Mamady Doumbouya on 2 October 2021. The gunfire started at around 08:00 local time near the Presidential Palace. [42]
The coup d'état of Primo de Rivera took place in Spain between September 13 and 15, 1923 and was led by the then Captain General of Catalonia Miguel Primo de Rivera.It resulted in the establishment of the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera, mainly because King Alfonso XIII did not oppose the coup and appointed the rebel general as head of the Government at the head of a Militar Directory.