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| {{Infobox_item|image = USImperalismMap.GIF|imagecaption = Countries featured on this list where the US has invaded, bombed, supported authoritarian regimes, supported coups, supported terrorists or organised crime groups, or interfered in elections are coloured in red.}}''Note: We acknowledge that occasionally, US Imperialism CAN have benefits (for instance, killing Nazis) and we do not support all groups opposed to US Imperialism. The US is also not behind every event in global politics, they are an empire but not omnipotent. However, we strongly condemn US Imperialism as most of it leads to loss of life and the underdevelopment of countries, condemning hundreds of millions to a life of poverty.''
| | ''Content Warning: This article contains extensive discussion and description of torture, rape, murder and genocide'' |
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| A timeline of the actions taken by the [[United States of America|United States]] Government in order to secure greater power and wealth at the expense of people, both its own and abroad. We include authoritarian regimes and dictatorships supported by the US, coups supported by the US, interference in elections, invasions, suppression of rebellions (domestic and abroad), bombing campaigns and support for terrorist or guerilla groups. Actions against piracy and retaliation against states that the declared war on the US are not included on this list, except in situations where the US used it for imperialist gains or lied to their population.
| | ''Note: We acknowledge that occasionally, US hegemony CAN have benefits (for instance, [[Anti-Fascism|killing Nazis]]) and we do not support all groups opposed to US hegemony. The US is also not behind every event in global politics, they are an empire but not omnipotent. However, we strongly condemn US hegemony as most of it leads to loss of life and the underdevelopment of countries, condemning hundreds of millions to a life of poverty.'' |
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| == 1700s ==
| | A timeline of the actions taken by the [[United States of America|United States]] government in order to secure greater [[US Hegemony|hegemony]] and power and wealth at the expense of people, both its own and abroad. We include authoritarian regimes and dictatorships supported by the US, coups supported by the US, interference in elections, invasions, suppression of rebellions (domestic and abroad), bombing campaigns and support for terrorist or guerilla groups. Actions against piracy and retaliation against states that the declared war on the US are not included on this list, except in situations where the US used it for hegemonic gains or lied to their population. |
| * 1775: [[American Revolution]], US wipes out indigenous nations.
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| * 1783: US lies about Constitution.
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| * 1785: US invades 13 indigenous nations in the Western Confederacy.
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| * 1786: US represses a democratic rebellion.
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| * 1791: US represses tax resisters.
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| * 1798: US attacks French ships.
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| * 1799: US represses tax resisters.
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| == 1800s ==
| | * 1891: Overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overthrow_of_the_Hawaiian_Kingdom Wikipedia]) |
| * 1812: US tries to invade Canada and lots of indigenous nations. | | * 1936: US Corporations arm Nationalists in [[Spanish Civil War]], leading to their victory |
| * 1846: US invades Mexico. | | * 1950: Support for [[Franco Dictatorship]] in Spain |
| * 1853: US forces Japan to end isolation. | | * 1950: [[US Bombing of North Korea|Bombing of North Korea]] |
| * 1854: US navy creates the Yangtze Patrol (until 1949) | | * 1952: Support for [[Batista Dictatorship]] in Cuba |
| * 1856: US intervenes in the Second Opium War. | | * 1954: Support for Guatemala military coup |
| * 1867: US buys Alaska off the [[Russian Empire]] (a violent, autocratic empire) without the consent of the indigenous population.<ref>[[Wikipedia]] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Purchase</ref> | | * 1954: Support for Paraguay military coup |
| * 1876: US supports dictatorship in Mexico (until (1911) | | * 1959: Support for Haiti coup |
| * 1887: US interferes in civil war in Samoa. | | * 1960: [[Terrorism in Cuba|Terrorism against Cuba]] |
| * 1893: US overthrows monarchy in Hawaii to annex it | | * 1962: Support for Military Dictatorship in Brazil |
| * 1898: US invades Spanish Empire, gaining Cuba, Guam, Puerto Rico and the Philippines. | | * 1962: Support for Peru military coup |
| * 1898: US annexes American Samoa. | | * 1963: [[Vietnam War|Invasion of Vietnam]] |
| * 1898: US supports dictatorship in Guatemala (until 1920) | | * 1964: Support for Colombia in Civil War |
| * 1899: US suppresses the Boxer Rebellion in China | | * 1964: Support for Brazil military coup |
| | * 1965: Support for Dominican Republic coup |
| | * 1967: Support for [[New Order (Indonesia)|Indonesian New Order]] |
| | * 1973: Support for Pinochet Dictatorship in Chile |
| | * 1973: Support for Civic-Military Dictatorship in Uruguay |
| | * 1975: Support for Peru military coup |
| | * 1976: Support for Argentina military coup |
| | * 1979: Support for Taliban in Afghani Civil War. |
| | * 1980: Support for El Salvador military coup |
| | * 1982: Support for Habre Dictatorship in Chad |
| | * 1983: Invasion of Grenada |
| | * 1986: Bombing of Libya |
| | * 1986: [[Olof Palme|Assassination of Swedish prime minister]] (speculated) |
| | * 1989: [[US Invasion of Panama|Invasion of Panama]] |
| | * 1990: [[Gulf War (1990)|Bombing of Iraq]] |
| | * 2001: Invasion of Afghanistan |
| | * 2002: Support for Venezuelan military coup |
| | * 2003: Invasion of Iraq |
| | * 2004: Support for Haiti coup |
| | * 2005: Support for Kyrgyzstan coup |
| | * 2006: Support for Palestine coup |
| | * 2009: Support for Syria coup |
| | * 2011: Support for [[Vietnam]] coup |
| | * 2011: Support for Libya military coup |
| | * 2014: Support for Thailand coup |
| | * 2019: Support for Venezuela coup |
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| == 1900s ==
| | See also [[US Atrocities]] |
| * 1903: US supports the Colombian Civil war to create an independent Panama
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| * 1903: US invades Honduras
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| * 1904: US invades Dominican Republic to steal money.
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| * 1907: US invades Honduras
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| * 1908: US supports dictatorship in Venezuela (until 1935)
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| * 1911: US invades Honduras
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| * 1911: US invades Mexico
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| * 1912: US invades Honduras
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| * 1912: US invades Nicaragua and occupies it until 1933.
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| * 1914: US invades Mexico
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| * 1914: US seize gold reserves of Haiti for their banks.
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| * 1915: US [[US Occupation of Haiti|invades Haiti and occupies it]] until 1934.
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| * 1916: US invades the Dominican Republic and occupies it until 1924.
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| * 1916: US invades Mexico
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| * 1917: US enters World War I despite saying they wouldn't.
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| * 1918: US invades Russia to stop Bolsheviks.
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| * 1919: US invades Honduras
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| * 1920: US invades Honduras
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| * 1924: US invades Honduras
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| * 1925: US invades Honduras
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| * 1927: US stations soldiers in China (until 1941)
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| * 1929: US supports dictatorship in Mexico (until 2000)
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| * 1930: US supports dictatorship in the Dominican Republic (until 1961)
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| * 1931: US supports dictatorship in Guatemala (until 1944)
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| * 1932: US supports dictatorship in El Salvador (until 1944)
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| * 1933: Us supports dictatorship in Honduras (until 1949)
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| * 1933: US supports dictatorship in Portugal (until 1974)
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| * 1936: US supports dictatorship in Nicaragua (until 1979)
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| * 1936: The [[Spanish Civil War]] begins, and the US bans the selling of guns, explosives and planes to the country. Several US corporations [[Foreign Interference in the Spanish Civil War|ignore this]], with Ford and General Motors selling 12,000 trucks to the nationalists, oil companies refusing to sell to Republicans and supplying oil on credit to the Nationalists despite it being illegal. The undersecretary of the Spanish Foreign Ministry said: "without American petroleum and American trucks, and American credit, we could never have won the Civil War."<ref>Antony Beevor. ''The Battle for Spain; The Spanish Civil War, 1936–1939'', page 138</ref> The President [[Franklin Roosevelt|at the time]] stated '[there should be] no expectation that the United States would ever again send troops or warships or floods of munitions and money to Europe'.<ref>Hugh Thomas, ''The Spanish Civil War,'' page 334</ref>
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| * 1941: US supports a military coup in Panama
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| * 1941: US enters World War II and fails so badly they effectively lengthen the Nazi regime, US bombing is largely unnecessary but occurs anyway.
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| * 1943: US installs a former fascist as prime minister of Italy
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| * 1944: US supports fascists in Greek Civil War, making it so brutal hundreds of thousands die and Greece is pushed back to the stone age.
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| * 1944: US attempts 25 coups in Guatemala (until 1954)
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| * 1945: US starts attacking leftist guerillas in the Philippines who had fought the Japanese while the Japanese are still on the islands.
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| * 1945: US nukes Japan to scare the USSR.
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| * 1945: US supports the Kuomingtang in China and bombs communists.
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| * 1945: US supports dictatorship in Saudi Arabia.
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| * 1946: US rigs elections in the Philippines and also helps police burn down communist villages.
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| * 1947: US rigs elections in Italy (until 1972)
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| * 1947: US pays mafia in France to attack communists
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| * 1948: US supports dictatorship in Thailand (until 1973)
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| * 1948: US supports dictatorship in Peru (until 1956)
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| * 1948: US supports dictatorship in South Korea (until 1988)
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| * 1948: US supports dictatorship in South Africa (until 1991)
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| * 1948: US supports dictatorship in Yugoslavia (until 1980)
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| * 1949: US supports coup and dictatorship in Syria (until 1953)
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| * 1949: US dictatorship in Taiwan (until 1975)
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| * 1949: US supports exiled Kuomingtang forces in Myanmar who smuggle lots of drugs and attack China.
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| * 1949: US tries to overthrow Albanian government.
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| * 1950: US supports dictatorship in Venezuela (until 1958)
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| * 1950: US supports dictatorship in Spain (until 1975)
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| * 1952: US interferes in Japanese elections (until 1960s)
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| * 1952: US supports dictatorship in Cuba (until 1959)
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| * 1952: US supports a military coup in Egypt
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| * 1953: US overthrows democratic government in Iran and installs a dictatorship (supported until 1979)
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| * 1954: US overthrows democratic government in Guatemala and installs a dictatorship (supported until 1996)
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| * 1954: US supports dictatorship in Jordan (until this day)
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| * 1954: US supports dictatorship in Paraguay (until 1989)
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| * 1955: US carries out a coup a year in Laos (until 1973)
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| * 1955: US supports dictatorship in South Vietnam (until 1963)
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| * 1957: US supports dictatorship in Haiti (until 1986)
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| * 1957: US attempts to overthrow the government of Indonesia and bombs it
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| * 1957: US attempts a coup in Syria
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| * 1958: US invades Lebanon
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| * 1958: US supports dictatorship in Pakistan (until 1971)
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| * 1959: The US also attempts to assasinate Castro 638 times over the next 49 years, a little over once a month.
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| * 1959: US supports a coup in Iraq
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| * 1963: US supports dictatorship in Honduras (until 1982)
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| * 1963: US supports dictatorship in Iraq (until 1967)
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| * 1964: US supports dictatorship in Brazil (until 1984)
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| * 1964: US supports state terrorism in Mexico that kills 3,000 people.
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| * 1965: US supports dictatorship in the Philippines (until 1985)
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| * 1965: US supports dictatorship in the Congo (until 1997)
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| * 1967: US supports dictatorship in Indonesia (until 1998)
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| * 1967: US supports dictatorship in Greece (until 1974)
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| * 1967: US supports a civilian coup overthrowing the Canadian government.
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| * 1968: US supports dictatorship in Panama (until 1981)
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| * 1969: US supports dictatorship in Sudan (until 1985)
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| * 1969: US supports dictatorship in Romania (until 1989)
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| * 1970: US supports dictatorship in Oman (until this day)
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| * 1970: US supports dictatorship in Cambodia (until 1975)
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| * 1971: US supports dictatorship in the UAE (until this day)
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| * 1971: US supports dictatorship in Bolivia (until 1978)
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| * 1972: US supports dictatorship in Qatar (until this day)
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| * 1973: US supports dictatorship in Uruguay (until 1985)
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| * 1973: US supports two coups in Afghanistan
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| * 1973: US [[Chilean Military Coup (1973)|overthrows]] democratic government of Chile and supports [[Pinochet Dictatorship|a new dictatorship]] for the next 17 years as revenge for Chile nationalising its copper industry.
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| * 1974: In the aftermath of the Carnation Revolution in Portugal
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| * 1975: The US allegedly [[Australian Constitutional Crisis (1975)|supports a civilian coup]] in Australia to prevent the closure of US military bases and stop the nationalisation of the mining sector.
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| * 1976: US supports dictatorship in Argentina (until 1983)
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| * 1978: US supports dictatorship in Pakistan (until 1988)
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| * 1978: US supports dictatorship in Somalia (until 1991)
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| * 1979: US supports dictatorship in Equatorial Guinea (until today)
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| * 1980: US supports dictatorship in Liberia (until 1990)
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| * 1980: US supports dictatorship in Turkey (until 1989)
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| * 1981: US supports dictatorship in Egypt (until 2011)
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| * 1982: US supports dictatorship in Cameroon (until 1982)
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| * 1982: US supports dictatorship in Chad (until today)
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| * 1982: US supports dictatorship in Iraq (until 1990)
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| * 1983: The US invades Grenada in order to destroy the small socialist government.
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| * 1983: US supports dictatorship in Panama (until 1989)
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| * 1984: US rigs elections in Grenada and supports dictator (until 1990)
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| * 1984: US supports dictatorship in Brunei (until today)
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| * 1986: US supports dictatorship in Uganda (until today)
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| * 1987: US supports dictatorship in Tunisia (until 2011)
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| * 1987: US supports military coup in Burkina Faso.
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| * 1989: US invades Panama.
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| * 1990: US supports dictatorship in Uzbekistan (until 1990)
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| * 1990: US supports dictatorship in Kyrgyzstan (until 2005)
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| * 1990: US supports dictatorship in Yemen (until 2012)
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| * 1991: US supports dictatorship in Azerbaijan (until today)
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| * 1991: US supports dictatorship in Ethiopia (until 2012)
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| * 1991: US invades and bombs Iraq.
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| * 1992: US supports dictatorship in Kazakhstan (until today)
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| * 1992: US supports dictatorship in Peru (until 2000)
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| * 1994: US supports dictatorship in Tajikistan (until today)
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| * 1996: US interferes in Mongolian elections.
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| * 1999: US supports dictatorship in Bahrain (until today)
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| * 1999: US supports dictatorship in Djibouti (until today)
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| * 1999: US supports dictatorship in Pakistan (until 2008)
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| == 2000s ==
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| * 2000: US supports dictatorship in Rwanda (until today)
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| * 2006: US supports dictatorship in Turkmenistan (until today)
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| * 2006: US tries to stop peace negotiation in Nepal
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| * 2009: US supports military coup in Honduras
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| * 2010: US supports civilian coup in Australia
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| * 2011: US supports dictatorship in Vietnam (until today)
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| * 2012: US supports dictatorship in Egypt (until today)
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| * 2014: US supports dictatorship in Thailand (until today)
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| * 2016: US supports civilian coups in Brazil and South Africa
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| * 2019: US tries to overthrow government of Venezuela
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| == References ==
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| <references />
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| [[Category:USA]] | | [[Category:USA]] |
| [[Category:Libertarian Socialist Wiki]] | | [[Category:AnarWiki]] |
| [[Category:North America]] | | [[Category:North America]] |
| [[Category:Timelines]] | | [[Category:Timelines]] |
| [[Category:US Imperialism]] | | [[Category:US Imperialism]] |
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| | [[wikipedia:United_States_involvement_in_regime_change|Wikipedia Article on United States involvement in regime change]] |
