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| {{Infobox_item|image = USImperalismMap-0.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.}}''Content Warning: This article contains extensive discussion and description of torture, rape, murder and genocide''
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| ''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.'' | | ''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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| 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. | | 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. |
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| == 1700s ==
| | * 1891: Overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii ([https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overthrow_of_the_Hawaiian_Kingdom Wikipedia]) |
| | * 1936: US Corporations arm Nationalists in [[Spanish Civil War]], leading to their victory |
| | * 1950: Support for [[Franco Dictatorship]] in Spain |
| | * 1950: [[US Bombing of North Korea|Bombing of North Korea]] |
| | * 1952: Support for [[Batista Dictatorship]] in Cuba |
| | * 1954: Support for Guatemala military coup |
| | * 1954: Support for Paraguay military coup |
| | * 1959: Support for Haiti coup |
| | * 1960: [[Terrorism in Cuba|Terrorism against Cuba]] |
| | * 1962: Support for Military Dictatorship in Brazil |
| | * 1962: Support for Peru military coup |
| | * 1963: [[Vietnam War|Invasion of Vietnam]] |
| | * 1964: Support for Colombia in Civil War |
| | * 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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| == 1800s ==
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| * 1846: The US government sends two navy ships (one armed with 72 cannons) into Tokyo Bay, [[Japan]] where they anchor themselves in an effort to end the 213-year-old policy of Japanese isolationism.
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| * 1853: The US government sends four navy ships to Japan in order to end the now 220-year-old policy of isolation and to open Japanese ports to US commercial interests. The commander in charge threatens war with Japan and repeatedly intimidates Japanese boats sent to stop him, it eventually succeeds as Japan opens up with several treaties.<ref>[[Wikipedia]] - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perry_Expedition Perry Expedition]</ref> The resulting political change briefly destabilises Japan and triggers several small-scale civil wars, rebellions, famines and economic collapse.<ref>[[Wikipedia]] - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bakumatsu Bakumatsu]</ref>
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| == 1900s ==
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| * 1915: The US [[US Occupation of Haiti|invades and occupies Haiti]] in order to capture its wealth and prevent the expansion of the [[German Empire]] into Latin America. Numerous abuses of the Haitian population by US soldiers occur, including the rape of thousands of Haitian women.
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| * 1929: The US begins supporting the authoritarian government in Mexico, support is maintained for the next 71 years.
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| * 1945: The US [[Nuclear Bombings of Japan|deploys two nuclear weapons on Japanese cities]] in a moved that even several prominent members
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| * 1945: The US begins its [[Allied Occupation of Japan|military occupation of Japan]], which is a rare case of US actions leading to a much better society. The US administration promotes democratisation and demilitarisation, legalises trade unions, enacts women's suffrage and creates a thriving social democracy in Japan. However, in spite of this, the US leaves a large military presence in Japan to help encircle the USSR and later China (this also sees an epidemic of rape and occasional of Japanese women by US soldiers), censors the media and
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| * 1947: The US begins to support the government of Turkey due to its strategic geopolitical position, providing massive amounts of military and economic aid to the country.
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| * 1948: The US begins supporting South Africa during [[Apartheid (South Africa)|Apartheid]], a brutal system of white supremacy and racial segregation that killed around 21,000 people. It also criminalised homosexuality, abortion, sex education, gambling, pornography, prostitution and selling alcohol on sundays.
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| * 1952: The US ends its military occupation of Japan but leaves behind its military bases and begins funding Japanese Liberal Democratic Party (later involved in numerous corruption scandals and an assassination of) to prevent the electoral victories of the socialists until the 1970s. The funding of the LDP was not revealed until 1994 where it was exposed by US journalists and quietly admitted to by the LDP and CIA.<ref>New York Times Archive (1994) - [https://www.nytimes.com/1994/10/09/world/cia-spent-millions-to-support-japanese-right-in-50-s-and-60-s.html C.I.A. Spent Millions to Support Japanese Right in 50's and 60's]</ref>
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| * 1955: ''(Alleged)'' The US, working with the Taiwanese government, [[Kashmir Princess Bombing|bombs the Air India plane Kashmir Princess]] which was flying over Indonesia in order to allegedly kill Zhou Enlai, a high-ranking Chinese politician. The alleged bomber was escorted out of Hong Kong (where the bomb was most likely planted) by CIA.<ref>[[Wikipedia]] - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kashmir_Princess Kashmir Princess]</ref>
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| * 1956: The US attempts to encourage [[Hungarian Revolution (1956)|the revolution in Hungary]], using the CIA-controlled Radio Free Europe broadcasts directed toward Hungary, supporting the revolutionaries and encouraging violent resistance against the occupying Soviet troops.<ref>[[Wikipedia]] - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_activities_in_Hungary#Hungary_1956 CIA activities in Hungary]</ref>
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| * 1963: (''Alleged'') The US helps politicians in Canada to take down the prime minister over his refusal to station US nuclear missiles in the country and being too independent in terms of foreign policy.<ref>[[Wikipedia]] - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIA_activities_in_Canada#Possible_manipulation_of_political_affairs CIA Activities in Canada]</ref>
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| * 1964: The US supports (and according to some sources, organises) a far-right military coup in Brazil, toppling a democratic, centre-left government and ensuring Brazil is run as a dictatorship for the next 21 years. To extinguish its left-wing opponents, the dictatorship used arbitrary arrests, imprisonment without trials, kidnapping, and most of all, torture, which included rape and castration. The military government murdered hundreds of others, although this was done mostly in secret and the cause of death often falsely reported as accidental. The government occasionally dismembered and hid the bodies. The new government (although initially successful in economically developing the country) soon became riddled with massive debt and hyper-inflation.<ref>[[Wikipedia]] - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_dictatorship_in_Brazil Military dictatorship in Brazil]</ref>
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| * 1965: The US and Britain help organise and support the [[Indonesian Mass Killings]] by providing the Indonesian army (many of whom had collaborated with the Japanese Empire) with weapons, information and other support in order to wipe out the powerful Indonesian left, that was pushing various places for land reform, workers' control and trade with the USSR. Between 500,000 and 3,000,000 people had been killed (0.4 to 2.8% of the population) and the CIA secretly compared it to the Holocaust and the [[Red Terror|Red Terrors]] in [[Red Terror (China)|China]] and [[Red Terror (USSR)|Russia]].
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| ** Killing methods included shooting, stabbing, beheadings, impaling, disemboweling, cutting off people's limbs and letting them bleed to death, strangling and castration (forced removal or disfiguring of genitals).
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| ** Killing devices included assault rifles, small arms, knives, sickles, machetes, swords, ice picks, bamboo spears, iron rods and other makeshift weapons.
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| ** Both men and women were subjected to sexual violence while in prisons, including rape and electric shocks to the genitals.
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| ** Torture methods included severe beatings with makeshift materials like electric cable and large pieces of wood, breaking fingers and crushing toes and feet under the legs of tables and chairs, pulling out fingernails, electric shocks, and burning with molten rubber or cigarettes. Detainees were sometimes forced to watch or listen to the torture of others, including relatives such as spouses or children.
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| ** Mass looting and burning down of pro-communist villages after killings.
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| ** Many of the killings had a distinctly racist nature against Chinese, Abangans and Atheist minorities in Indonesia.
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| ** The killings enabled the [[New Order (Indonesia)|New Order regime]] to come to power, which has been considered one of the most corrupt governments in human history and paved the way for genocides in Timor-Leste and [[West Papua Conflict|West Papua]].
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| * 1973: The US organises economic warfare and a [[Chilean Military Coup (1973)|military coup in Chile]], South America's most stable democracy, in order to take down the elected socialist government that had nationalised the mining sector.<ref>[[Wikipedia]] - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1973_Chilean_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat 1973 Chilean coup d'état]</ref> The new [[Pinochet Dictatorship|military dictatorship]] destroyed the economy, leaving the country deep in poverty and killing between 2,000 and 30,000 people, 27,000 people being tortured and survived) and 200,000 people were forced into exile (mainly to Argentina). In other words, 2.2% of Chile's population (of 10.1 million) had their lives ended or ruined by the dictatorship. Some notable torture and killing methods include:
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| ** Electrocution of open wounds and the genitals on a person tied up on a metal bed.
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| ** Arresting entire families if a single member had leftist sympathies, and forcing family members to watch soldiers rape other members of their family, in other situations, families or close friends would have to listen to their beloved being tortured.
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| ** Forcing prisoners to crawl on the ground and lick the dirt off the floors. If the prisoners complained or even collapsed from exhaustion, they were promptly executed.
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| ** Forcing prisoners to swim in vats of excrement (shit) and eat and drink it.
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| ** Forcing prisoners to stay awake for five days while lying down, threatening to kill their children if they didn't.
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| ** Forcing prisoners to lie down and driving trucks and cars over their arms and legs, crushing their bones.
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| ** Beating prisoners to the point that they'd either be deaf from being hit on the ears or have broken arms and legs, occasionally, amputation would be used as a torture technique.
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| ** Pouring water over a cloth that covered prisons' faces and breathing passages, causing individuals to experience a drowning sensation, and a near-death experience and killing many through asphyxiation.
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| ** Prisoners were hung upside-down with ropes, and they were dropped into a tank of water, headfirst. The water was contaminated (with poisonous chemicals, shit and piss) and filled with debris.
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| ** Anal rape of prisoners by soldiers while soldiers insulted them to break their spirit.
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| ** Using dogs to rape prisoners and inserting rats into prisoners anuses and vaginas.
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| ** Forcing female prisoners to engage in sex with their brothers and fathers at gunpoint.
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| ** Throwing dissidents from helicopters into the ocean, rivers, lakes or mountains where they would be instantly killed (and spend the last seconds of their live in absolute terror) and their bodies never found. This method of torture is continuously joked about in online right-wing spaces as their 'joking' plan for leftists.
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| ** Left many victims reported suffering from post traumatic stress disorder, isolation, worthlessness, shame, anxiety and hopelessness.
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| * 1975: (''Alleged'') The US helps politicians in Australia to [[Australian Constitutional Crisis (1975)|take down the prime minister]] over his desire to close a US military base violating its contract in Australia and to nationalise Australia's mining sector, it is alleged by one source that the CIA controls most trade unions, banks and political parties in Australia.<ref>[[Wikipedia]] - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Australian_constitutional_crisis#Alleged_CIA_involvement 1975 Australian constitutional crisis]</ref>
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| * 1986: ''(Alleged)'' The US helps organise the assassination of [[Sweden|Swedish]] Prime Minister [[Olof Palme]], as part of their opposition to social democracy and Olof's outspoken support for the ANC.<ref>[[Wikipedia]] - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Olof_Palme#The_CIA_and_P2_connection Assassination of Olof Palme]</ref>
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| * 1987: The US (alongside France, Libya and Israel) supports a coup that takes out the [[Thomas Sankara|socialist government]] in [[Burkina Faso]]. This contributes to a reversal in women's rights, ecological destruction, increased poverty and less access to key services like healthcare and education. Additionally, it fails to lead to the democratisation of Burkina Faso, with it remaining a dictatorship until 2014<ref>[[Wikipedia]] - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1987_Burkinab%C3%A9_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat 1987 Burkinabé coup d'état]</ref>
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| * 1994: The US begins to aid Mexico in the [[Chiapas Conflict]] (by training soldiers and death squads, as well as supplying guns, tanks, helicopters and fighter jets)<ref>guidetoaction.org - [https://www.guidetoaction.org/magazine/april96/mexico.html U.S. Military Involvement in Mexico's Quagmire Deepens]
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| </ref> who are aimed at destroying the libertarian socialist [[Zapatista Army of National Liberation|EZLN]] and taking over their [[Rebel Zapatista Autonomous Municipalities|autonomous areas]] that are international symbols of feminism, environmentalism and indigenism. Around 1600 people have been killed in the conflict and numerous acts of state terrorism and rape of women are carried out.<ref>NACLA - [https://nacla.org/article/escalation-war-chiapas The Escalation of the War in Chiapas]
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| == 2000s ==
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| * 2001: The US invades Afghanistan.
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| * 2002: The US attempts to overthrow the government of Venezuela.
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| * 2003: The US invades Iraq.
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| * 2006: Palestinian Electoral Interferences
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| * 2009: The US overthrows the government of Honduras.
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| === 2010s ===
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| * 2012: The US begins to assist the rebels in the [[Syrian Civil War]], secretly supplying money, weaponry and training to rebel forces. The program leads to a flooding of assault rifles, mortars and rocket-propelled grenades into Middle East's black market.<ref>[[Wikipedia]] - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timber_Sycamore Timber Sycamore]</ref>
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| * 2013: The US begins arming the government of [[Niger]] despite its extreme neglect of its people (ranking lowest globally in human development), repeated human rights violations and neglect of the countries huge slavery problem.<ref>Wikipedia - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Military_Operations_in_Africa_%282007-Present%29 United States Military Operation in Africa (2007 - Present)]</ref>
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| * 2014: The US begins to deploy airstrikes and soldiers in the Syrian Civil War in order to support the rebels and [[Rojava]].<ref>[[Wikipedia]] - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American-led_intervention_in_the_Syrian_Civil_War American-led intervention in the Syrian Civil War]</ref> Motivations are heavily speculated on, ranging from trying to take down a major ally of Russia and Iran (preventing the formation of an anti-american geopolitical power bloc) to securing the safe passage of a Saudi-European oil pipee
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| * 2015: The US begins to assist [[Saudi Arabia]] and the government of [[Yemen]] in their [[Yemeni Civil War|civil war]]. The US sends hundreds of elite soldiers (Green Berets) and massive amounts of funding, equipment and training to their favoured side, this massively prolongs the conflict.<ref>[[Wikipedia]] - [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemeni_Civil_War_(2015–present) Yemeni Civil War (2015–present)]</ref>
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| * 2019: The US attempts to overthrow the government of Venezuela.
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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]] |
