List of US Regime Change Efforts

When it comes to interference in other countries' political affairs, the US is the world champ

This is a list of all the times since the late 1800s the US has tried to overthrow governments, support separatist movements, interfere in elections, etc. Since the US became arguably, and after World War II unquestionably, the world’s leading power, there is no other country that has come close to the US in terms of widespread interference in other countries’ or territories’ political affairs. Please let me know in the comments if there are any I’ve left out.

Hawaii, 1893

Cuba, 1898; 1953-now

Puerto Rico, 1898

Philippines, 1899-1913; 1945-1957

Samoa, 1899

China, 1899-1901; 1945-early 1960s; 1989 (Beijing);

1989-2016 (Xinjiang); 2019 (Hong Kong)

Panama, 1903; 1941; 1989

Nicaragua, 1909; 1979-1990; 2018

Honduras, 1903-1925; 1963; 2009

Mexico, 1913-1919

Haiti, 1915-1934; 1991; 1994-1995; 2004; 2009

Dominican Republic, 1916-1934

Russia, 1918-1920; Soviet Union, 1945-1960s;

1984-1991; Russia during 1990s

Korea, 1945-1946; 1950-1953

Greece, 1947-1949; 1967

Italy, 1947-early 1970s

Costa Rica, 1948; 1955

Albania, 1949-1953

Syria, 1949; 1956-1957; 1979-1981; 2006-2024

Eastern Europe, 1948-1956

Iran, 1952-1953; 1979-present

Guatemala, 1954

Indonesia, 1955; 1957-1958; 1965-1967, and East Timor, 1975

Iraq, 1959; 1972-1975; 1991-2003

Vietnam, 1950-1973

Cambodia, 1967-1975; 1979-1993, 2018

Congo, 1960

Laos, 1960-1975

Dominican Republic, 1961; 1965-1966

Ecuador, 1960-1963; 2000; 2010

Brazil, 1961-1964

Ghana, 1966

Chile, 1964; 1970-1973

Bolivia, 1971; 2019

Ethiopia, 1974-1991

Costa Rica, 1970-1971

Australia, 1973-1975

Angola, 1975-1991

Argentina, 1976

Afghanistan, 1979-1989; 2001-2023

Poland, 1980-1989

Grenada, 1983

Libya, 1981-1989; 2011

Panama, 1989

Bulgaria, 1990

Albania, 1991

Somalia, 1991; 2006-present

Yugoslavia, 1991-2000

Venezuela, 2002-present

Kyrgyzstan, 2005

Egypt, 2011

Thailand, 2011-2023

Ukraine, 2014

Taiwan, 2014

Yemen, 2015-present

Bangladesh, 2018-2024

Pakistan, 2022-2023

Sri Lanka, 2022

Georgia, 2023-present

Romania, 2024

Slovakia, 2024-2025