Category:Rebellion

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Rebellion is the general term for an uprising, revolt, insurgency, or other related action that seeks to take control of a government by an active and armed movement. While many rebellions are carried out in order to replace the leadership, some aim to completely reform the society and are called revolutions.

Successful rebellions include the American, French, and Russian Revolutions, as well as the Indian independence movement and many other anti-colonial struggles of the twentieth century. In many cases, uprisings lead to civil war, often divided along lines of ethnicity (as seen in the breakup of Yugoslavia), socio-economic status (such as the French and Russian Revolutions), or religion (as in the multiple Israel-Arab Wars).

Coup d'état's are a specific form of rebellion in which one part of the government (often the military) seeks to usurp control of the country very quickly, and often without widespread violence.