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* 1984: The US begins to support the authoritarian regime in Brunei (which continues to this day) | * 1984: The US begins to support the authoritarian regime in Brunei (which continues to this day) | ||
* 1986: The US begins to support the authoritarian regime in Uganda (which continues to this day) | * 1986: The US begins to support the authoritarian regime in Uganda (which continues to this day) | ||
* 1987: The US begins to support the authoritarian regime in Tunisia ( | * 1987: The US begins to support the authoritarian regime in Tunisia. | ||
* 1987: The US (along with [[Timeline of French Imperialism|France]]) sponsors a military coup in [[Burkina Faso]], killing [[Thomas Sankara]] and reversing his progress in land redistribution, women's rights, healthcare, agricultural productivity, infrastructure building, poverty reduction and reducing government corruption.<ref>[[Wikipedia]] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1987_Burkinab%C3%A9_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat</ref> Ensuring that yet another African nation is condemned to poverty, and the threat of a successful non-capitalist nation is stamped out. | |||
=== 1990s === | === 1990s === | ||
Revision as of 19:56, 19 July 2019
A timeline of the actions taken by the United States Government in order to secure greater power and wealth at the expense of people, both its own and abroad.
1700s
- 1777: Morocco becomes the first nation to recognise American independence, the US has had supportive relations with Morocco since.
1800s
- 1876: The US begins to support the authoritarian Porfiriato regime in Mexico,
- 1898: The US begins to support the authoritarian regime in Guatemala (ending in 1920)
1900s
- 1908: The US begins to support the authoritarian regime in Venezuela (which ends in 1935)
1910s
- 1911: The US stops supporting the authoritarian Porfiriato regime after the Mexican Revolution overthrows the government by forcing Porfirio to flee for Spain.
1920s
- 1929: The US begins to support the authoritarian regime in Mexico (which ends in 2000 with the democratisation of Mexico, brought on by various events, notably the Zapatista Revolution)
1930s
- 1930: The US begins to support the authoritarian regime in the Dominican Republic (ending in 1961 with a US-backed coup)
- 1931: The US begins to support the authoritarian regime in Guatemala (ending in 1944 with a popular uprising)
- 1932: The US begins to support the authoritarian regime in El Salvador (which ends in 1944 due to a confusing uprising)
- 1933: The US begins to support the authoritarian regime in Honduras (which ends in 1949 in response to uprisings in surrounding countries)
- 1933: The US begins to support the authoritarian regime in Portugal (which ends in 1974)
- 1936: The US begins to support the authoritarian regime in Nicaragua (which ends in 1979 in response to a popular uprising)
1940s
- 1945: The US drops two nuclear bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Whether this was done to force a Japanese surrender and prevent a brutal land invasion of Japan or to intimidate the USSR from taking Korea remains controversial to this day.
- 1945: The US begins to support the authoritarian regime in China (which ends in 1949)
- 1945: The US begins to support the authoritarian regime in Saudi Arabia (which continues to this day)
- 1948: The US begins to support the authoritarian regime in Thailand (which ended in 1973)
- 1948: The US begins to support the authoritarian regime in Peru (which ended in 1956)
- 1948: The US begins to support the authoritarian regime in South Korea (which ended in 1988)
- 1948: The US begins to support the authoritarian regime in South Africa (which ended in 1994)
- 1948: The US begins to support the authoritarian regime in Yugoslavia (which ended in 1980)
- 1949: The US begins to support the authoritarian regime in Syria (which ended in 1953)
- 1949: The US begins to support the authoritarian regime in Taiwan (which ends in 1975)
1950s
- 1950: The US begins to support the authoritarian regime in Venezuela (which ends in 1958 due to a popular uprising)
- 1950: The US begins to support the authoritarian regime in Spain (which ends in 1975)
- 1952: The US begins to support the authoritarian regime in Cuba (which ends in 1959 due to the Cuban Revolution)
- 1953: The US begins to support the authoritarian regime in Iran (which ends in 1979 due to a popular uprising)
- 1954: The US begins to support the authoritarian regime in Guatemala (which ends in 1986)
- 1954: The US begins to support the authoritarian regime in Jordan (which continues to this day)
- 1954: The US begins to support the authoritarian regime in Paraguay (which ends in 1989)
- 1955: The US begins to support the authoritarian regime in South Vietnam (which ends in 1963)
- 1957: The US begins to support the authoritarian regime in Haiti (which ended in 1986)
- 1958: The US begins to support the authoritarian regime in Pakistan (which ends in 1969 due to a popular uprising)
- 1959: Singapore is granted self-government by the British Empire, and the US quickly starts to support the centre-right People's Action Party, who works to create an authoritarian regime in the country.[1] Some notable achievements like censorship of the media, mass surveillance, arrest without trial, restrictions on protest, conscription, abuse of migrant workers, human trafficking and the criminalisation of homosexuality.[2]
1960s
- 1963: The US begins to support the authoritarian regime in Honduras (which ends in 1982)
- 1963: The US begins to support the authoritarian regime in Iraq (which ends in 1967)
- 1964: The US begins to support the authoritarian regime in Brazil (which ends in 1984)
- 1965: The US begins to support the authoritarian regime in the Philippines (which ends in 1985 due to a popular uprising)
- 1965: The US begins to support the authoritarian regime in the Democratic Republic of Congo (which ended in 1997)
- 1967: The US begins to support the authoritarian regime in Indonesia (which ends in 1998 due to a popular uprising)
- 1967: The US begins to support the authoritarian regime in Greece (which ends in 1974)
- 1968: The US begins to support the authoritarian regime in Panama (which ends in 1981)
- 1969: The US begins to support the authoritarian regime in Pakistan (which ends in 1971)
- 1969: The US begins to support the authoritarian regime in Sudan (which ends in 1985)
- 1969: The US begins to support the authoritarian regime in Romania (which ends in 1969)
1970s
- 1970: The US begins to support the authoritarian regime in Oman (which continues to this day)
- 1970: The US begins to support the authoritarian regime in Cambodia (which ends in 1975)
- 1971: The US begins to support the authoritarian regime in United Arab Emirates (which continues to this day)
- 1971: The US begins to support the authoritarian regime in Bolivia (which ends in 1978)
- 1972: The US begins to support the authoritarian regime in Qatar (which continues to this day)
- 1973: The US begins to support the authoritarian regime in Uruguay (which ends in 1985)
- 1973: In response to efforts to nationalise the copper industry and introduce a limited degree of workers' self-management, the US helps the military overthrow the democratic government in Chile and strongly supports a new, brutal and highly repressive regime.
- 1976: The US begins to support the authoritarian regime in Argentina (which ends in 1983)
- 1978: The US begins to support the authoritarian regime in Pakistan (which ends in 1988)
- 1978: The US begins to support the authoritarian regime in Somalia (which ends in 1991)
- 1979: The US begins to support the authoritarian regime in Equatorial Guinea (which continues to this day)
1980s
- 1980: The US begins to support the authoritarian regime in Liberia (which ended in 1990)
- 1980: The US begins to support the authoritarian regime in Turkey (which ended in 1989)
- 1981: The US begins to support the authoritarian regime in Egypt (which ended in 2011 with the Arab Spring)
- 1982: The US begins to support the authoritarian regime in Cameroon (which continues to this day)
- 1982: The US begins to support the authoritarian regime in Chad (which continues to this day)
- 1982: The US begins to support the authoritarian regime in Iraq (which ended in 1990)
- 1983: The US begins to support the authoritarian regime in Panama (which ends in 1989)
- 1984: The US begins to support the authoritarian regime in Brunei (which continues to this day)
- 1986: The US begins to support the authoritarian regime in Uganda (which continues to this day)
- 1987: The US begins to support the authoritarian regime in Tunisia.
- 1987: The US (along with France) sponsors a military coup in Burkina Faso, killing Thomas Sankara and reversing his progress in land redistribution, women's rights, healthcare, agricultural productivity, infrastructure building, poverty reduction and reducing government corruption.[3] Ensuring that yet another African nation is condemned to poverty, and the threat of a successful non-capitalist nation is stamped out.
1990s
- 1990: The US begins to support the authoritarian regime in Uzbekistan (which ends in 2016)
- 1990: The US begins to support the authoritarian regime in Kyrgyzstan (which ends in 2005)
- 1990: The US begins to support the authoritarian regime in Yemen (which ends in 2012)
- 1991: The US begins to support the authoritarian regime in Azerbaijan (which continues to this day)
- 1991: The US begins to support the authoritarian regime in Ethiopia (which ended in 2012)
- 1992: The US begins to support the authoritarian regime in Kazakhstan (which continues to this day)
- 1992: The US begins to support the authoritarian regime in Peru (which ended in 2000)
- 1994: The US begins to support the authoritarian regime in Tajikistan (which continues to this day)
- 1999: The US begins to support the authoritarian regime in Bahrain (which continues to this day)
- 1999: The US begins to support the authoritarian regime in Djibouti (which continues to this day)
- 1999: The US begins to support the authoritarian regime in Pakistan (which ends in 2008)
2000s
- 2000: The US begins to support the authoritarian regime in Rwanda (which continues to this day)
- 2006: The US begins to support the authoritarian regime in Turkmenistan (which continues to this day)
2010s
- 2011: The US begins to support the authoritarian regime in Vietnam (which continues to this day)
- 2012: The US begins to support the authoritarian regime in Egypt (which continues to this day)
- 2014: The US begins to support the authoritarian regime in Thailand (which continues to this day)