What the records say
- When
- 20 Oct 1944
- Kind
- Revolution
- Coordinates
- 15.50° N, 90.25° W
- Description
- popular uprising that overthrew dictator Jorge Ubico in 1944
Placed at the country: the source names no closer place.
Guatemalan Revolution
1944–1954 period in Guatemala
The period in the history of Guatemala between the coups against Jorge Ubico in 1944 and Jacobo Árbenz in 1954 is known locally as the Revolution. It has also been called the Ten Years of Spring, highlighting the peak years of representative democracy in Guatemala from 1944 until the end of the civil war in 1996.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “The Guatemalan Revolution begins with the overthrow of Federico Ponce Vaides by a popular leftist movement”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page