president dwight d eisenhower agrees to
help the british overthrow musa deck
operation ajax is born welcome to watch
mojo
and today we're counting down our picks
for the top 10 coup d'etat
with tanks moving toward the national
palace allende refused to resign
making good on his promise to defend
chile's democracy with his own life
napoleon had succeeded in his coup
within a coup
setting himself up to ultimately become
dictator and
all without a single life lost in his
announcement tonight
the commander of egypt's army said it's
time to bring the country together
for this list we're looking at the most
well-known and impactful takeovers by
small state political and military
groups our rank is based on how large
these coup d'etat loom in history
we're excluding failed coups as well as
mass uprisings and revolutions that
aren't usually considered coups
in a few hundred years which of these do
you think will be most remembered
we'd love to hear your opinions in the
comments
number 10 the 1980 turkish coup d'etat
in 1980 the army intervened after turkey
changed prime ministers 11
times and the country became unstable on
july
15 2016 an attempted coup rocked turkey
the coup leaders cited the erosion of
secularism and democratic freedoms under
president erdogan
the attempt failed however and erdogan
retaliated with a massive crackdown
against dissent
by daylight smoke could be seen on the
skyline of the capital
along with the sound of sporadic gunfire
many of those who challenged president
erdogan for power
were seen surrendering in istanbul this
was far from turkey's first experience
with kuz
in the 1960s 70s and 80s the government
was overthrown
thrice during the most recent overthrow
in 1980
a council of turkish generals decided to
take control as the country
spiraled into chaos and violence they
arrested over half a million people
and sentenced hundreds to death the
council controlled turkey until 1982
where upon cool leader kanan everyone
was elected president
number nine the 1971 ugandan coup d'etat
and i want to promise you
this will be a government of action
the life of ugandan general idi amin may
have inspired the 2006 film the last
king of scotland
but it was his military coup in 1971
that first set a mean front and center
on the world stage
on january 25th of that year ugandan
troops led by amin
blocked off airports and major roads in
the nation while president milton obote
was in singapore
attending a conference nicknamed the
butcher of uganda
the general provoked international
criticism during his reign
including accusations of violence
torture and ruining uganda's economy
after establishing military rule in
uganda amin demonstrated eccentric
and ruthless behavior idiamine was
ousted in 1979 by exiled ugandans
and the tanzania people's defense force
and fled to saudi arabia where he
remained until his death
in 2003. if the people of uganda
wants me i will go back to uganda
and i am sure i will contribute more
for the people of uganda number eight
the 1952 cuban coup d'etat
this coup may have been bloodless but
led to a brutal dictatorship and the
cuban revolution
it was actually fulencio batista's
second coup after he led the successful
sergeants revolt in 1933
batista served one term as president in
the early 40s
then decided to run again in 1952 but
the polls didn't look good
so he just seized power instead during
his rule
batista established a police state and
close relationships with organized crime
nonetheless he enjoyed strong u.s
support
the coup prompted one fidel castro to
lead an armed revolt
which in 1959 would hand him control of
cuba's destiny for over half a century
number seven the 1973 chilean coup
d'etat
even as coups installed military
governments throughout south america in
the 60s
chile clung to democratic rule for a
time
however president salvador allende's
socialist policies and nationalization
of the copper industry
infuriated the u.s on the advice of
national security adviser henry
kissinger
the nixon administration waged economic
warfare against chile and plotted a coup
they decided to stop him from being
inaugurated as president of chile
he hadn't even set foot in the moneta
palace
when nixon and kissinger just simply
decided to change the fate of chile as
the country struggled with an economic
depression and
inflation the cia exacerbated unrest
on september 11 1973 general augusto
pinochet deposed allende
installing himself as dictator with
tanks moving
toward the national palace allende
refused to resign
making good on his promise to defend
chile's democracy with his own life
his bloody decades-long reign saw the
torture and execution of thousands of
political dissidents
with declassified documents revealing
that the cia continued to play a
supporting role
amnesty international says that chile
serves as a reminder
that perpetrators of atrocities can
still be held to account
decades after the fact number six
the spanish coup of july 1936.
while this coup became much larger and
more drawn out than intended
it was ultimately successful just
managing to meet our criteria here
in july 1936 the right-wing nationalists
staged a coup against the leftist
government of the second spanish
republic
however government forces managed to
hold out through much of the country
resulting in a three-year civil war in
the end though thanks to another coup
within republican forces
the nationalists were victorious and
leader francisco franco took power
the atrocities that franco and the
nationalists committed became known as
the white terror
spain would only transition to democracy
after franco's death in 1975.
number five egypt's 1952 coup d'etat
in july 1952 a group of egyptian
nationalists
known as the free officers movement
seized power from british back to king
farouk
decrying the king as corrupt and
beholden to foreign interests
they abolished the monarchy and made
coup leader general mohammed nagib
egypt's prime minister and first
president
nageeb himself was overthrown a few
years later by free officer gamel
abdel nasser the shift in power led to
widespread reforms and eventually to the
suez crisis
when the uk france and israel invaded
egypt to regain control of the suez
canal
it also inspired anti-colonial and
anti-monarchical rebellions throughout
the region
and this wasn't the last time egypt's
government was overthrown
in 2013 the egyptian army removed
president muhammad morsi
leading to president abdel fattah
el-sisi's authoritarian regime
in his announcement tonight the
commander of egypt's army said it's time
to bring the country together
number four the 1948 czechoslovak coup
d'etat
the international tensions that defined
the cold war were just gaining steam by
the winter of 1948.
in czechoslovakia the government
comprised a communist prime minister
and a non-communist majority and
president that wasn't enough for the
communist party
they purged non-communist members of the
police force
and had police and militias take over
prague fearing soviet intervention
president edvard benesh agreed to form a
new communist dominated government
the move became known as victorious
february and ushered in four decades of
communist rule
it was a pivotal event in the drawing of
the iron curtain across europe
and spurred on the establishment of the
marshall plan and nato
it wasn't until the non-violent velvet
revolution of 1989
that democracy was restored in that
country number three
the 1953 iranian coup d'etat
iran's history would have taken a very
different course without this coup
in 1953 the u.s and uk orchestrated the
overthrow of democratically elected
prime minister
muhammad mosadek the u.s referred to the
operation as operation ajax
and the british as operation boot
wrestling with britain's control of
iranian oil reserves
masadek decided to nationalize the
country's oil industry
even worse he nationalizes the
profitable anglo-iranian oil company
the british are livid and withdraw their
technicians in protest
the crisis that followed saw masadek
face increasing pressure
and fall back on emergency powers with
the help of the cia and mi6
he was ousted by a faction of the
iranian imperial army
three days later mosaddegh surrenders to
iranian police
he is tried for treason and placed under
house arrest for three years
this eventually led to shah reza
pahalavi taking on a larger leadership
role
which culminated in the shah's own
overthrow by ayatollah khomeini during
the iranian revolution of 1979.
number two the coup of 18 brume a
committee of five ruling members
governed france from 1795 to 1799
until it was overthrown by a young
military genius known as general
napoleon bonaparte
whatever the result is it will be
perfectly legal
the deputies have dissolved the
directory
in its place they have created an
executive consular commission
this act effectively ended the french
revolution and
was committed without bloodshed by
napoleon on november 9th
1799 or 18th brunei
year 8 in the french republican calendar
napoleon established a french consulate
serving as first consul until naming
himself emperor in 1804.
napoleon had succeeded in his coup
within a coup
setting himself up to ultimately become
dictator and
all without a single life lost he would
rule france until 1814
when he abdicated the throne and was
exiled after an unsuccessful military
campaign into russia
bonaparte would briefly return a year
later but was exiled again after his
infamous defeat at waterloo
before we reveal our top pick here are a
few honorable
or sometimes dishonorable mentions the
october revolution
also known as the bolshevik coup some
call it a coup
others a revolution but we're squeezing
it in for leading to the creation of the
soviet union
the 1941 iraqi coup d'etat this
nazi-backed coup
ousted the pro-british regime and led to
the anglo-iraqi war
the 1969 libyan coup d'etat after
overthrowing king idris the first
colonel muammar gaddafi ruled libya
until 2011.
the 1979 salvadoran coup d'etat this
military takeover led to the 12-year
long salvadoran civil war
the 2017 zimbabwean coup d'etat robert
mugabe's long rule ended when the army
arrested him
and forced him to resign in the
televised address an army spokesman
denied that a
coup was underway saying it was
targeting what it called criminals
around the world's oldest leader
the spokesman blamed mugabe's aides for
causing quote social and economic
suffering
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number one the ides of march a2 brute
these words from shakespeare's play
julius caesar have become synonymous
with betrayal
roman general gaius julius caesar seized
power in october 49 bc
but a coup on the ides of march in 44 bc
cut
his rule short though his reign lasted
only four years
his killers could not turn back the tide
of history
roman senators saw caesar as
disrespectful and overreaching
and stabbed him to death at a senate
meeting the conspirators
included caesar's former friend and
possibly biological son
marcus brutus they drove their blades
home
with blow after blow the assassination
plunged rome into civil war
as caesar's ally mark anthony and heir
octavian sought to avenge his death
he was my friend faithful
and just to me they succeeded but later
turned on each other when all the dust
settled mark anthony
and his lover cleopatra were dead
octavian was rome's first emperor
and the roman republic was finished do
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