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20th-century rebellions

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Cuban Revolution
revolution in Cuba culminating in 1959
Easter Rising
armed insurrection in Ireland during Easter Week, 1916
Kronstadt rebellion
uprising against the Bolsheviks in March 1921
Irish War of Independence
war of national liberation
Basmachi movement
decentralized decolonial movement which undertook a uprising against Russian Imperial and Soviet rule by the Muslim peoples of Central Asia (1916–1934)
Ilinden–Preobrazhenie Uprising
Revolt against the Ottoman Empire in Southeastern Europe 1903
Slovak National Uprising
armed uprising of the Slovak domestic resistance during the Second World War
Nepalese Civil War
civil war in Nepal between 1996 and 2006
Gwangju Uprising
1980 anti-government uprising in South Korea
Soweto uprising
series of demonstrations and protests led by black school children in South Africa
228 Incident
1947 uprising in Taiwan
1959 Tibetan uprising
uprising in Lhasa, Tibet against China
Kurdistan Workers' Party insurgency
armed conflict between the Republic of Turkey and various Kurdish insurgent groups
Dersim massacre
Kurdish and Zaza uprising against the Turkish government in Dersim, eastern Turkey
Maji Maji Rebellion
Uprising in the south and east of German East Africa, 1905-1907.
Greater Poland uprising
1918-1919 military insurrection
1997 Albanian civil unrest
1997 conflict in Europe
August Uprising
1924 failed insurrection against Soviet rule in the Georgian SSR
Great Syrian Revolt
uprising against the French rule in Mandatory Syria and Lebanon
8888 Uprising
series of nationwide protests, marches and civil unrest in Burma (Myanmar) that peaked in August 1988
Sheikh Said rebellion
Kurdish rebellion following the abolition of the Caliphate
Maritz Rebellion
conflict
Jeju uprising
1948–49 uprising in Jeju Island, South Korea
Athens Polytechnic uprising
massive demonstration of popular rejection of the Greek military junta of 1967-1974
Islamist revolution in Syria
conflict, contestations and revolution movements, mainly linked to Muslim brotherhood
Malagasy Uprising
1940s rebellion in Madagascar
1907 Romanian Peasants' Revolt
peasant revolt
Ñancahuazú Guerrilla
group of mainly Bolivian and Cuban guerrillas led by Ernesto Guevara which was active in the Cordillera Province, Bolivia from 1966 to 1967
Central Asian revolt of 1916
Muslim revolt against Russian conscription in WWI
September Uprising
1923 communist insurgency in Bulgaria
Labin Republic
1921 unrecognised state in modern Croatia
Klaipėda Revolt
1923 uprising
Republic of Anguilla
short lived, unrecognised independent state on the island of Anguilla (11 July 1967 – 18 March 1969)
1931 Cyprus revolt
anti-colonial revolt that took place in Cyprus, then a British crown colony, between 21 October and early November 1931
1932 Salvadoran peasant massacre
Ethnocide that largely affected indigenous peoples
Escambray rebellion
armed rebellion against the Cuban government from 1959 to 1965
11 September 1922 Revolution
historical event in Greece
Albanian revolt of 1912
final Albanian revolt in the Ottoman Empire
Bucharest pogrom
pogrom during the Legionnaires' rebellion in 1941
1973 Thai popular uprising
potest movement that overthrew Thanom Kittikachorn
Malabar Rebellion
conflict in India in 1921–1922
Christmas Uprising
against the union with Serbia
Revolution in the Kingdom of Poland
20th-century insurrection in Poland
Tuareg rebellion (1990-1995)
rebellion by various Tuareg groups in Niger and Mali
Telangana Rebellion
Peasant rebellion in erstwhile Hyderabad State
Dominican Civil War
1965 civil war in the Dominican Republic
1959 Mosul Uprising
attempted coup in Iraq
Bambatha Rebellion
Uprising in the colony of Natal, South Africa, in 1906, led by Bambatha, deposed chief of the Zondi tribe; often referred to as the poll tax rebellion
Chilembwe uprising
Challenge to European power in Nyasaland Protectorate in early 1915, led by the Reverend John Chilembwe.
Sudeten German uprising
pro-German rebellion against Czechoslovakian government
Albanian revolt of 1910
First of a series of major uprisings
Tungchow Mutiny
assault on Japanese civilians and troops
Łódź insurrection
1905 uprising in Russian Poland
Husino uprising
riot
Assam Agitation
mass agitation against illegal foreigners in Assam, India, from 1979 to 1985
Tuareg rebellion (1962–1964)
insurgency by populations of what is now northern Mali
communist insurgency in Sarawak
communist insurgency in Malaysia
Sveaborg Rebellion
1906 Russian military mutiny
Ohrid–Debar Uprising
Bulgarian & Albanian uprising against Serbian rule
Stennes Revolt
revolt within the Nazi Party in 1930-1931