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.
Timeline
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.
- 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.
- 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.