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The plot planned to install retired Major General Smedley Butler as dictator of the United States.. The Business Plot, also called the Wall Street Putsch [1] and the White House Putsch, was a political conspiracy in 1933, in the United States, to overthrow the government of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and install Smedley Butler as dictator.
The membership clause was in the portion of the Smith Act that made it a crime "to organize or help to organize any society, group, or assembly of persons who teach, advocate, or encourage the overthrow or destruction of any government in the United States by force or violence; or to be or become a member of, or affiliate with, any such society ...
1919 Polish coup attempt in Lithuania: The Polish right-wing unsuccessfully tried to overthrow the left-wing government. Spartacist uprising in Germany: The German Communist Party unsuccessfully attempted to overthrow the government. István Friedrich overthrew the Hungarian People's Republic lead by Gyula Peidl, in Romanian occupied Budapest.
Within less than 24 hours of Trump pardoning or commuting sentences of those who tried to violently overturn the 2020 election, the riot's two most prominent leaders left prison. ... a former US ...
Since the 19th century, the United States government has participated and interfered, both overtly and covertly, in the replacement of many foreign governments. In the latter half of the 19th century, the U.S. government initiated actions for regime change mainly in Latin America and the southwest Pacific, including the Spanish–American and Philippine–American wars.
This is a list of coups d'état and coup attempts by country, listed in chronological order. A coup is an attempt to illegally overthrow a country's government. Scholars generally consider a coup successful when the usurpers are able to maintain control of the government for at least seven days.
By RYAN GORMAN Two American citizens have been charged with plotting to overthrow the government of a small African country. Former U.S. Army and Air Force enlistee Papa Faal, 46, and businessman ...
This is what American voters wanted. Republicans retained the House and Senate.