Nicaraguan Revolution
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nicaraguan-revolution-190-5176976
title:
Nicaraguan Revolution
text:
The Nicaraguan Revolution began with rising opposition to the Somoza dictatorship in the 1960s and 1970s, the ouster of the dictatorship in 1978–79, and the Contra War, fought between the government and the Contras from 1981 to 1990. The revolution revealed the country as one of the major proxy war battlegrounds of the Cold War. The initial overthrow of the Somoza dictatorial regime in 1978–79 cost many lives, and the Contra War of the 1980s took tens of thousands more and was the subject of fie
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description:
1979–1990 anti-Somoza revolution and Sandinista rule
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicaraguan_Revolution
date created:
2004-05-17T22:48:44Z
date modified:
2024-09-09T20:08:20Z
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