1954 Guatemalan coup d'état

Conflict

Cold War

Date

18–27 June 1954

Place

Guatemala

Outcome

Jacobo Árbenz overthrown.
Guatemalan Revolution ended.
Military junta assumes power.

Combatants
Guatemalan Government	Military of Guatemala Guatemalan exile rebels United States CIA Guatemalan Templars

Commanders

The 1954 Guatemalan coup d'état was a covert operation carried out by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency that deposed the democratically elected Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz and ended the Guatemalan Revolution of 1944–54. Code-named Operation PBSUCCESS, it installed the military dictatorship of Carlos Castillo Armas, the first in a series of U.S.-backed authoritarian rulers in Guatemala.

References

Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood – Rifts

Timeline

Prehistory	War of Unification • Human-Isu War • Toba catastrophe • Assassin-Templar War (ongoing)

Ancient history	Greco-Persian Wars (Battle of Thermopylae) • Peloponnesian War (Battle of Amphipolis • Battle of Pylos) • Caesar's Civil War • Alexandrine Civil War (Siege of Alexandria) • Assassination of Julius Caesar • Liberators' civil war (Battle of Philippi)

12th century	Siege of Masyaf • Battle of Hattin • Third Crusade (Assault on Masyaf • Siege of Acre • Quest for the Chalice • Defense of Masyaf • Hunt for the Nine • Battle of Arsuf • Retaking of Masyaf)

13th century	Fourth Crusade • First Barons' War • Assassination of Genghis Khan • Decline of the Levantine Assassins • Medieval Inquisition • Fall of Masyaf • Mongol conquest of the Song dynasty (Siege of Diaoyu Castle)

14th century	Persecution of the Templars • Hundred Years' War (Siege of Orléans)

15th century	Renaissance (Ottoman-Venetian War) • 1402 Chinese Assassin purge • Battle of Anghiari • Fall of Constantinople • Defense of Monteriggioni • Assassination of Galeazzo Maria Sforza • Pazzi conspiracy • Reconquista (Granada War) • Venetian Conspiracy • Battle of Forlì • Mission to Aragon • Age of Discovery • Bonfire of the Vanities • Confrontation in the Vatican

16th century	Siege of Monteriggioni • Liberation of Rome (Skirmish in the Campagna District) • Search for Cesare Borgia • Attack on Valencia • Siege of Viana • Battle of Agnadello • Assassination of Niccolò di Pitigliano • Prince of Anhua rebellion • Attack on Prince Suleiman • Riot at the Harbor of Theodosius • Destruction of the Great Chain • Fight for the Masyaf Keys • Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire (Night of Sorrows) • Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire (Siege of Cuzco) • Great Rites Controversy • Roman Inquisition • Honnō-ji incident • Battle of Sekigahara

17th century	English Civil War • Salem witch trials

18th century	War of the Spanish Succession • Golden Age of Piracy (Sinking of the Treasure Fleet • Attacks on Tulum • Siege of Charles-Towne • Blockade of Nassau • Attack on Ocracoke) • Maroon Rebellion • 1751 Port-au-Prince earthquake • Seven Years' War • French and Indian War • 1755 Lisbon earthquake • Braddock Expedition • Colonial Assassin purge • Louisiana Rebellion • American Revolution and American Revolutionary War (Battles of Lexington and Concord • Battle of Bunker Hill • Great Fire of New York • Sullivan Expedition • Battle of Monmouth • Battle of West Point • Battle of the Chesapeake • Attack on Fort George • Siege of Yorktown) • French Revolution (Estates-General of 1789 • Storming of the Bastille • Women's March on Versailles • French Revolutionary Wars • 10 August • September Massacres • Execution of Louis XVI • Reign of Terror • Thermidorian Reaction • 13 Vendémiaire • Plot of the rue Saint-Nicaise) • Haitian Revolution

19th century	Napoleonic Wars • Trienio Liberal • First Anglo-Afghan War • California Gold Rush • Industrial Revolution • Victorian era (Whitechapel murders) • Battle of Balaclava • American Civil War (1863 New York City draft riots) • Borki train disaster

20th century	Modern times • Tunguska explosion • World War I • Russian Revolution (Shooting of the Romanov family • Kazan Operation) • Red Scare • Palmer Raids • Shanghai massacre of 1927 • Spanish Civil War • World War II (The Blitz) • Philadelphia Project • Chinese Civil War • Cold War (1954 Guatemalan coup d'état • Vietnam War • Assassination of John F. Kennedy • Apollo 11 Moon landing • 1973 Chilean coup d'état • 1976 Argentine coup d'état • Iranian Revolution • Dissolution of the Soviet Union)

21st century	Great Purge • War on Terror (Iraq War) • Beagle 2 launch • DIA satellite accident • Second Disaster • Resurrection Day

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