Instances of the United States overthrowing,
or attempting to
overthrow, a foreign government since the Second World
War.
When a range of years is given, the effort to overthrow was
not necessarily an active operation each year of the period.
* = successful ouster of a
government
China 1949, 1950s
Albania 1949-53
East Germany 1950s
Iran 1953
*
Guatemala 1954
*
Costa Rica mid-1950s
Syria 1956-7
Egypt 1957
Indonesia 1957-8
British Guiana 1953-64
*
Iraq 1963
*
North Vietnam 1945-73
Cambodia 1955-70
*
Laos 1958-60
*
Ecuador 1960-63
*
Congo 1960
*
France 1965
Brazil 1962-64
*
Dominican Republic 1963
*
Cuba 1959 to present
Bolivia 1964
*
Indonesia 1965
*
Ghana 1966
*
Chile 1964-73
*
Greece 1967
*
Costa Rica 1970-71
Bolivia 1971
*
Australia 1973-75
*
Angola 1975, 1980s
Zaire 1975
Portugal 1974-76
*
Jamaica 1976-80
*
Seychelles 1979-81
Chad 1981-82
*
Grenada 1983
*
South Yemen 1982-84
Suriname 1982-84
Fiji 1987
*
Libya 1980s
Nicaragua 1981-90
*
Panama 1989
*
Bulgaria 1990
*
Albania 1991
*
Iraq 1991
Afghanistan 1980s
*
Somalia 1993
Yugoslavia 1999
Ecuador 2000
*
Afghanistan 2001
*
Venezuela 2002
*
Iraq 2003
*