Word: revolt
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...result of Japanese control was a major peasant revolt. Ho Chi Minh organized a strong Communist party among the peasants of Vietnam and was able to mobilize over 90,000 guerillas. When the Japanese surrendered on August 14, 1945, the peasant movement controlled enough of the country to call a national congress and to form a new nation-wide government--the Democratic Republic of Vietnam...
...guerilla war cannot be won without a popular base. The repressive governments of the French and the Japanese had created the conditions for revolt. The people who led the revolution were Vietnamese; the people who constituted the base of the movement were the Vietnamese peasantry...
...third revolt in two years against Diefenbaker, and each attack has left Canada's Conservatives more deeply divided...
Partly because the party was badly split by an unsuccessful revolt against Diefenbaker's leadership, the Conservatives lost the 1963 election to Lester Pearson's Liberals. Despite his obvious desire to return to office, Diefenbaker has failed to find a popular issue on which to attack Pearson, actually lost prestige through his contentious opposition to Canada's new maple-leaf flag. The present revolt against him was staged by a group of respected Quebec M.P.s who consider Diefenbaker too old, too crotchety, too out of touch with the country to lead the Conservative Party. What kept...
...Charles Buckley, once a business associate of Joseph Kennedy, was President Kennedy's earliest supporter in New York, a staunch foe of Mayor Wagner, and one of Bobby's strongest allies. These men formed the cadre of Kennedy's strength in New York and the nucleus of the Albany revolt...