A coup d'etat is the sudden deposition of a government. If the usurpers fail it often leads to a civil war.
Napolean's Coup was staged in 1799.
1953, Operation Ajax. Obama just apologized for this earlier this year. Some wonder why we have so much trouble with mid-eastern countries like Iran. There are no clean hands in any of this but we...
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