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The rally of power-seizure movement in Shanxi, China (April 1967).. The seizure of power (simplified Chinese: 夺权; traditional Chinese: 奪權), or power-seizure movement (simplified Chinese: 夺权运动; traditional Chinese: 奪權運動) during the Cultural Revolution was a series of events led by the "rebel groups", attempting to grab power from the local governments in China and local ...
A coup d'état (/ ˌ k uː d eɪ ˈ t ɑː / ⓘ; French: [ku deta] ⓘ; lit. ' stroke of state '), [1] or simply a coup, is typically an illegal and overt attempt by a military organization or other government elites to unseat an incumbent leadership.
It is this event that would become termed Hitler's Machtergreifung ("seizure of power"). The term was originally used by some Nazis to suggest a revolutionary process, [ 93 ] though Hitler, and others, used the word Machtübernahme ("take-over of power"), reflecting that the transfer of power took place within the existing constitutional ...
Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn., condemned President Donald Trump and Elon Musk's efforts to slash government waste as unconstitutional "seizures of power."
Political warfare also includes aggressive activities by one actor to offensively gain relative advantage or control over another. Between nation states, it can end in the seizure of power or in the open assimilation of the victimized state into the political system or power complex of the aggressor.
The EU rejects the seizure of power by force in Gabon and called for restraint from all parties, the bloc's foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said in a statement on Thursday. A military junta on ...
Mussolini thus legally reached power, in accordance with the Statuto Albertino, the Italian Constitution. The March on Rome was not the seizure of power which Fascism later celebrated but rather the precipitating force behind a transfer of power within the framework of the constitution. This transition was made possible by the surrender of ...
Gleichschaltung is a compound word that comes from the German words gleich (same) and schaltung (circuit) and was derived from an electrical engineering term meaning that all switches are put on the same circuit allowing them all to be activated by throwing a single master switch. [4] Its first use is credited to Reich Justice Minister Franz ...