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France
Revolutionaries strom the bastille for “liberty, equality and fraternity.” . Four years later Jacobin radicals gets in power and begins The Great Terror. Beheading thousands and king and queen. -
Russia
Aleksandr Kerensky replaced Czar after he was overthrown. Kerensky and his democrats cannot hold the uprising by the totalitarian Bolsheviks led by Lenin. -
India
Mohandas K. Gandhi is in protest of the english salt monopoly in colonial India. But eventually british India is broken up and gone.Gandhi is later assassinated by a Hindu fanatic. -
Eygpt
King Farouk gets exiled and the democracy is prevented by the officer caste behind the uprising. -
Cuba
Fidel Castro was disguested by the American-backed Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. That he over threw him in order to make the people happy. Later on he drives the loswer and middle class in to exile. -
Iran
Mehdi Bazargan becomes figurehead leader then a few months later followers of Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini take over and mass executions are held. The regime stayed for another 32 years before it was shaken off -
Philippines
The "yellow" revolution drives out the dictator Ferdinand E. Marcos and wiht americas help they get a new leader his name is Corazon Aquino. The outcome is good witht his peacful revolution.- -
South Korea
The death of a student forces military leader Chun Doo-hwan to yield to democratic rule. Which still continues today! -
Eastern Europe
Soviet Union (USSR) loosens its grip on warsaw pact countries like Poland, East Germany, and Czechoslovakia. But after the Soviet Union its self falls it is hard to shake old authoritarian ways. -
Lebanon
The “cedar revolution" breaks out when the prime minister of Lebanon get assassinated. the people of Lebanon believed it was the Syrians who did it. The protests force Syrian troops to leave the country and the Pro-Syrian goverment is dibanded.
