The August 1991 coup attempt in the Soviet Union was organized by people who opposed Mikhail Gorbachev. Obviously, these people weren't satisfied with how the president ran things in the Soviet Union, due to his unsuccessful reforms and implementations, which is why they decided to rebel and start a coup against their "ruler." Although it wasn't successful (it ended after only two days), it was still an important reason why the Soviet Union was dissolved a couple of months after the coup.
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Just like president Madero (murdered in a coup d'etat in 1913), the main issues that he faced when attempting to carry out reforms such as the agrarian reform was, on the one hand, the lower classes' impatience for the reforms to take place right away, on the other hand, he met the opposition of wealthy landowners (hacendados; latifundistas), un willing to give back the land they had snatched from small farmers in times of president Porfirio Diaz's administration (1876 - 1911).
In order to enforce his reforms, Carranza first presented a document, "Reforms to the Constitution of 1857," and as these reforms were rejected by many because of their limited scope. Instead, a new constitution was issued in 1917 which features a number of articles devoted the the right of people to free and public education, a working day of 8 hours tops, etc, This new Constitution, issued on February 1917, greatly expanded qualitatively and quantitatively the lukewarm reforms carried out by Carranza
"To the Person Sitting in Darkness" is an essay by American author Mark Twain published in the North American Review in February 1901. It is a satire exposing imperialism as revealed in the Boxer Uprising and its aftermath, the Boer War, and the Philippine–American War, expressing Twain's anti-Imperialist views.
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Nixon won a tremendous landslide re-election victory in 1972, his victory is due to the 60.7% popular vote in 49 states, out of 50. His speech about the Vietnam war, which aimed to end U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War allowed him to win the tremendous landslide re-election and proves his silent majority support for his war strategy.
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Nixon believed his Vietnamization strategy, which involved building up South Vietnam's armed forces and withdrawing U.S. troops, would prepare the South Vietnamese to act in their own defense against a North Vietnamese takeover and allow the United States to leave Vietnam with its honor intact.