juntas

Examples of juntas in the following topics:

• Shuttle Diplomacy

  • The National Salvation Junta, the new government, quickly granted Portugal's colonies, including Angola and Mozambique, independence.

• "Americanizing" the Vietnam War

  • In 1966, the junta selected General Nguyễn Văn Thiệu to run for president with Ky on the ballot as the vice-presidential candidate in the 1967 election.

• Non-Democratic Governments: Monarchy, Oligarchy, Technocracy, and Theocracy

  • Forms of government and other political structures associated with oligarchy usually include aristocracy, meritocracy, plutocracy, military junta, technocracy, and theocracy.

• Non-Democratic Governments: Authoritarianism, Totalitarianism, and Dictatorship

  • The term 'an authoritarian regime' denotes a state in which the single power holder - an individual 'dictator,' a committee or a junta or an otherwise small group of political elite - monopolizes political power.

• The Pax Romana

  • Lacking a good precedent of successful rule by one man, he created a junta of the greatest military magnates and gave himself the titular honor.

• Intervention in Latin America

  • Opposition groups, known as Loyalists, launched a military coup d'état in 1963, effectively negating the 1962 elections by installing a civilian junta dominated by former members of the Trujillo regime and headed by Donald Reid Cabral, an American-educated businessman.

• Clinton and Foreign Policy

  • In 1994, Clinton publicly demanded that the Haitian military junta step aside and restore democratic rule, despite the fact that, before the coup, Washington had repeatedly undermined Aristide's regime.

• Commitment to Vietnam

  • In 1966, the junta selected General Nguyễn Văn Thiệu to run for president with Ky on the ballot as the vice-presidential candidate in the 1967 election.

• Interventions in Latin America and the Middle East

  • By 1976, all of South America was covered by similar military dictatorships, called juntas.