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Overthrown Leaders

Can you identify these famous toppled historical leaders based on the people who overthrew them and the year of their downfall?
For the purposes of this quiz, the identities of the 'overthrowers' have been simplified - in reality, most of these coups were far more complicated!
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Overthrown by
Year
Person overthrown
Emerson Mnangagwa and the Zimbabwe Defence Forces
2017
Robert Mugabe
Mao Zedong
1949
Chiang Kai-shek
Marcus Junius Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, and approximately 60 other conspirators
44 BCE
Julius Caesar
Ugandan exiles and the Tanzanian Army (led by Julius Nyerere)
1979
Idi Amin
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini
1979
Mohammad Reza Pahlavi
The National Salvation Front and mass Romanian civil disobedience
1989
Nicolae Ceaușescu
Colonel Joseph-Désiré Mobutu (backed by the CIA)
1965
Patrice Lumumba
General Augusto Pinochet (backed by the CIA)
1973
Salvador Allende
William of Orange (later William III of England)
1688
James II
Fidel Castro
1959
Fulgencio Batista
The Taliban
2021
Ashraf Ghani
Sandinista National Liberation Front insurgents
1979
Anastasio Somoza Debayle
William the Conqueror
1066
Harold Goldwinson
Mengistu Haile Mariam
1974
Haile Selassie I
The Libyan National Transition Council (backed by NATO) and mass civilian uprisings
2011
Muammar Gaddafi
Mass popular Bangladeshi uprisings led by Students Against Discrimination
2024
Sheikh Hasina
The Sudanese Armed Forces
2019
Omar al-Bashir
French Republican forces led by Georges Danton, Maximilien Robespierre, Jean-Paul Marat, and others
1792
Louis XVI
David Dacko and French-backed Central African Armed Forces
1979
Jean-Bédel Bokassa
Oliver Cromwell and the Roundhead Army
1649
Charles I
Ahmed al-Sharaa and the Hayat Tahrir al-Sham front
2024
Bashar al-Assad
US invasion forces and Panamanian rebels
1989
Manuel Noriega
Mass public uprisings, the Muslim Brotherhood, and latterly the Egyptian Army
2011
Hosni Mubarak
The Tatmadaw (the Burmese armed forces)
2021
Aung San Suu Kyi
The Iranian Army, backed by the CIA and MI6
1953
Mohammed Mossadegh
US-led coalition forces
2003
Saddam Hussein
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