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France
The third estate revolted against the first and second estates because they thought the Estate system was not fair, The government got rid of the Estate system and wrote the Declaration of the Rights of Man. The Jacobins then took over and began the Reign of Terror. -
Russia
Aleksandr Kerensky replaces overthrown czar because the nation was exhausted from World War I. Demorcrats could not hold off an uprising by totalitravian Bolsheviks led by Lenin. -
India
Ghandi's "salt march" in protest of English salt monopoly in India. Which led to a seperation of British India and Ghandi's assassination. -
Egypt
King Farouk is driven into exile but Egypt still remained a military dicatatorship. -
Cuba
Fidel Castro overthrows dicatory Fulgencio Batista. Castro turns ordinary Cuba into informants, fining squads do a brisk business. -
Iran
Mendi Bazargan becomes a new leader, Khomeini takes over and does a mass excecution. Islamic regime remains in place. -
Nicaragua
Sandinista movement the middle class ousts dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle, accused of abuses and corruption. -
Philippines
"People power" revolution ousts Fernidad E. Marcos and makes Coorazon Aquino as president. Outcome hailed as a modern exemplar of peacful revolution.