Editing 1970s (section)

===Coups===
[[File:Selassie restored.jpg|thumb|upright|[[Haile Selassie]] was overthrown from power in Ethiopia, ending one of the longest-lasting monarchies in world history.]]
{{Main|List of coups d'état and coup attempts#1970–1979}}
The most prominent [[coups d'état]] of the decade include:
* 1970 – Coup in Syria, led by [[Hafez al-Assad]].
* 1971 – [[1971 Ugandan coup d'état|Military coup]] in Uganda led by [[Idi Amin]].
* 1973 – [[1973 Chilean coup d'état|Coup d'état in Chile on September 11th]], Salvador Allende was overthrown and killed in a military attack on the presidential palace. Augusto Pinochet takes power backed by the military junta.
* 1974 – [[Derg|Military coup]] in Ethiopia led to the overthrowing of [[Haile Selassie]] by the communist junta led by General [[Aman Andom]] and [[Mengistu Haile Mariam]], ending one of the world's longest-lasting monarchies in history.
* 1974 – (25 April) [[Carnation Revolution]] in Portugal started as a military coup organized by the Armed Forces Movement (Portuguese: Movimento das Forças Armadas, MFA) composed of military officers who opposed the Portuguese fascist regime, but the movement was soon coupled with an unanticipated and popular campaign of civil support. It would ultimately lead to the decolonization of all its colonies, but leave power vacuums that led to civil war in newly independent Lusophone African nations.
* 1975 – [[Sheikh Mujibur Rahman]], [[President of Bangladesh]], and almost his entire family was [[assassination of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman|assassinated]] in the early hours of August 15, 1975, when a group of [[Bangladesh Army]] personnel went to his residence and killed him, during a coup d'état.
* 1976 – [[Jorge Rafael Videla]] seizes control of Argentina in 1976 through a [[1976 Argentine coup d'état|coup]] sponsored by the Argentine military, establishing himself as a dictator of a [[National Reorganization Process|military junta]] government in the country.
* 1977 – [[1977 Pakistani military coup|Military coup]] in Pakistan. Political leaders including Zulfikar Ali Bhutto were arrested, and martial law was declared.
* 1979 – an Attempted coup in Iran, backed by the United States, to overthrow the [[Interim Government of Iran (1979)|interim government]], which had come to power after the [[Iranian Revolution]].
* 1979 – Coup in El Salvador, President General [[Carlos Humberto Romero]], was overthrown by junior ranked officers, who formed a Junta government, which lead to the beginning of a 12-year civil war.