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155 matches to Republican People’s Party
Orléanists. 1830-48. French supporters of Louis-Philippe vs republicans and Bonapartists.
Philippi, Battle. 42BC. Antony and Octavian beat republicans Brutus and Cassius.
Progressive Party. 1912,24 Dissident US Republicans. 1948 Dissident Democrats.
Radical Republicans. 1860-77. Anti-slavery faction of US Republican Party. Abolitionists.
Reagan, Ronald. 1911-2004. US actor, Republican President 1981-9. Tax reform. Strong economy. Aid to Nicaragua Contras. Irangate scandal. Fall of Soviet Empire.
Renner, Karl. 1870-1950. Austrian republican leader and president. Supported union with Germany before WWII.
Republican Party. 1792 Jefferson’s agrarian party. 1820 Whigs. 1854. Anti-slavery party. Lincoln. = Grand Old Party. vs Democratic Party.
Republican People’s Party. Turkey 1923-50. Founded by Ataturk.
Russian Revolution. 1905. Led to Duma, Constitution and end of Mir system. Police gradually regained authority. October Manifesto. Bloody Sunday. 1917 Feb: Liberal republicans overthrow Czar. Oct: Lenin’s Bolsheviks overthrow Kerensky’s Provisional Government, withdraw from WWI.
Scalawags. White southern Republicans who supported Reconstruction.
Sinn Fein. 1905. (=Ourselves Alone). Irish Nationalist movement. 1916 uprising. Founded Irish Free State. Legalized as political party in Northern Ireland, 1974. Political wing of IRA. De Valera.
Terrorism. Zealots. Cagoulards. Baader-Meinhof. Irish Republican Army. Hamas. PLO. Osama. Taliban. al-Qaeda.
Whig. 1834-54. US political party. Divided over slavery, most became Republican.
Aberhart, William. 1878-1943. Canadian Social Credit advocate.
African National Congress. ANC. 1912-. Organization for black rights in South Africa outlawed to 1990. 1994- Ruling party. Mandela.
Anti-Masonic Party. 1826. US party absorbed into Whigs 1838.
Attlee, Clement. 1883-1967. British Labour Prime Minister. 1945-51. National Health. Nationalization.
Ba’ath. 1943-. Pan-Arab Socialist unity party.
Bebel, August. 1840-1913. Founder of German Social Democrat Party.
Bevan, Aneurin. 1897-1960. British Socialist MP 1929-60. Architect of National Health Service, 1948.
Black Panthers. 1966-80. Revolutionary US political party. Bobby Seale. Huey Newton.
Blum, Léon. 1872-1950. French Socialist Prime Minister 1936-7. 40 hr. week.
Bolsheviks. (“Majority”) 1903-52. Revolutionary faction of Social Democratic Workers Party for dictatorship of Proletariat. =Communist. Mensheviks.
Boston Tea Party. 1773. Colonials dump tea cargo to protest tax. Led to Intolerable Acts.
Brandt, Willy. 1913-92. Pragmatic Social Democrat Chancellor of West Germany 1969-74.