Timeline of US Hegemony

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.

1900s

• 1936: The US refuses to aid Republican forces in the Spanish Civil War (despite FDR's sympathy for their cause and plans to assist, diplomatic advisors block it) and US corporations provide massive aid to the Nationalists, including providing oil on credit and 12,000 trucks to their forces.
• 1945: The US begins smuggling Nazi and Japanese war criminals into their country and giving them amnesty for their crimes against humanity in exchange for information of military strategy, spy networks, torture techniques, chemical warfare, weapons and disease outbreaks.
• 1947: The US and UK begin assisting former fascists and far-right militias in Greece to prevent socialists from taking power.
• 1947: The US rigs elections in Italy to prevent socialists taking government power for the next 24 years through a combination of massive funding of opposition, working with the mafia to attack communist offices, intimidate communists and occasionally murder them.
• 1949: The US assists a coup in Syria to ensure control of oil pipelines.
• 1949: The US and UK work to overthrow the socialist government in Albania, using former fascists and Nazi collaborates paid by the US.
• 1950: The US aids exiled Chinese anti-communists in northern Myanmar, using CIA-owned airlines to help move troops, weapons and guns that finance their operations. This leads to an explosion in the global heroin trade and continued attacks in China.
• 1953: The US sponsors a coup in Iran to stop the president from nationalising oil supplies in order to pay for a welfare state based on the New Deal.
• 1954: The US sponsors a coup that overthrows a social democracy in Guatemala for their redistribution of unused land owned by US-corporations and sponsoring of literacy programs.
• 1955: The US begins sponsoring the Tibetan Independence Movement during anti-socialist uprisings.
• 1956: US-sponsored radio stations encourage citizens across Hungary to rebel, helping begin the doomed Second Hungarian Revolution.
• 1960: The US uses the CIA to assist Turkish Military Intelligence (MIT) in designing plans for mass arrests and repression of political opposition from 1960-69, notably the massacre of 150 leftists in Bloody Sunday.
• 1973: The US organises and assists a military coup in Chile to overthrow the socialist president Salvador Allende, who's administration had seen nationalisation of copper mines, expansion of the welfare state and the formation of workers' councils.
• 1973: The US supports a failed far-right Islamic paramilitaries in attempting a coup against the socialist president Mohammed Daoud by providing weapons, vehicles and communication equipment.
• 1974: The US supports a failed far-right Islamic paramilitaries in attempting a coup against the socialist president Mohammed Daoud by providing weapons, vehicles and communication equipment.
• 1975: The US uses CIA pressure on Australian government officials to end the prime ministry of Gough Whitlam, a social democrat who planned to close US military bases in the country, notably Pine Gap, and to nationalise mines controlled by US corporations.
• 1987: It is suspected by some that the US organised the coup in Fiji, as the social democratic government attempted to stop nuclear vessels entering Fijian ports and to stop nuclear weapons testing in Fijian waters, and the new government assisted the nuclear program. This led to a three-year long dictatorship and a huge economic recession.

1990s

• 1991: The US quickly begins supporting the newly independent Republic of Azerbaijan after its exit from the USSR. Despite the countries restrictions on the media, democratic rights and repression against journalists and critics of the regime. Azerbaijan sends troops to assist in later wars in Afghanistan and Iraq as well as allowing 40% of naval and ground supplies for the wars and US corporations sell weapons and military vehicles to the country.
• 1992: Following the 1990 election in Algeria which saw the victory of the Islamic Salvation Front, supporting Islam, trade unionism and anti-imperialism, the US and France support the military who organise a coup, and the resulting civil war kills between 44,000 and 200,000 people.
• 1995: The US begins supporting various paramilitaries in the Chiapas Conflict to crush the socialist EZLN forces.
• 1996: The US begins providing heavy support for the anti-communist electoral candidate of Boris Yeltsin after the communist party becomes popular enough to win the Russian election. The US provides massive amounts of money to his campaign, trains his advisors and even scripts and stages Yeltsin standing up to NATO and the US, Yeltsin wins the election by 35% of the vote over 32% gained by the communists.

2000s

2010s

• 2011: The US begins supporting the authoritarian regime in Vietnam, a 'communist' country which employs forced labour, torture of dissidents, censorship, arresting of critical journalists and protesters, the lack of democratic rights and an economy built around sweatshop labor. The US begins engaging in joint-naval exercises in the South China Sea (to intimidate China), assisting the creation of nuclear technology and donations of foreign aid, as well as US corporations exploiting the Vietnamese working class for cheap labor to make food, clothing and electronics.