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France
People of the revolution storm into the bastille. Fopur years after Jacobin radicals gain control and begin their Reign of Terror. The gulitine is used to kill 40,000 people in 2 years.Napoleon gains control. -
Russia
Aleksandr Kerensky replaces the overthrown czar. The country is weak from fighting in world war 1, so an uprising by totalitarian Bolsheviks led by Lenin begins. Stalin will soon come after. -
India
Mohandas K. Gandhi’s “salt march,” which protests the English salt monopoly in colonial India, becomes a succesful model for resistance. Gandhi is later assassinated by a Hindu fanatic. -
Egypt
King Farouk is exiled and Egypt remains a military dictatorship in civilian garb. -
Cuba
Fidel Castro, along with the middle-class movement, overthrows the American-backed Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista.Soon Castro drives the middle class into exile. -
Iran
shah flees for his life, and the urbane Mehdi Bazargan becomes figurehead leader for a little bit.followers of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini take over. mass executuions occur, and the islamic regime stays intact for 32 years. -
Nicaragua
The leftist Sandinista movement kicks out Anastasio Somoza Debayle. the Sandinistas are opposed by “contra” guerrillas.Daniel Ortega, is re-elected president in 2006. -
Philippines
The "yellow" revolution ousts the dictator Ferdinand E. Marcos and installs as president Corazon Aquino.The outcome is hailed as a modern exemplar of peaceful revolution.