page_title: List of revolutions and rebellions
section_title: 1950s
hierarchical_section_title: List of revolutions and rebellions / 1950s
caption_attribution_description: Raúl Castro, left, with has his arm around second-in-command, Ernesto “Che” Guevara, in Cuba. In their Sierra de Cristal Mountain stronghold south of Havana, in 1958 during the Cuban Revolution.
context_page_description: This is a list of revolutions and rebellions.
context_section_description: 1950: The Cazin uprising in the town of Cazin, Bosnia and Herzegovina
  1950: The Puerto Rican Nationalist Party Revolts of the 1950s in Puerto Rico, attempt on the life of US president Harry S. Truman in the Blair House, and shooting at Congress, was a call for Puerto Rico's independence and uprising by the Puerto Rican Nationalist Party against United States Government rule of Puerto Rico.
  1950s: The Mau Mau uprising.
  1950: Republic of South Maluku (RMS) separatist rebellion. The rebellion was crushed by Indonesian National Armed Forces. Surviving RMS rebels founded government-in-exile in The Netherlands.
  1952: A popular revolution in Bolivia led by Víctor Paz Estenssoro and the Revolutionary Nationalist Movement (MNR) initiates a period of multiparty democracy lasting until a 1964 military coup.
  1952: The Rosewater Revolution in Lebanon.
  1952: Egyptian Revolution of 1952
  1953: The Vorkuta uprising was a major uprising of the Gulag inmates in Vorkuta in the summer of 1953. Like other camp uprisings it was bloodily quelled by the Red Army and the NKVD.
  1953: Uprising of 1953 in East Germany
  1953–1975: The Laotian Civil War in Laos.
  1954–1962: The Algerian War of Independence: an uprising against French colonialism.
  1954–1968: The Civil rights movement in the United States was a struggle by African Americans to end legalized racial discrimination, disenfranchisement and racial segregation.
  1954: The Kengir uprising in the Soviet prison labor camp Kengir.
  1954: The Uyghur uprising against Chinese rule in Hotan.
  1955–1960: The Guerrilla war against British colonial rule of Cyprus led by the EOKA (National Organisation of Cypriot Fighters).
  1955–1972: The First Sudanese Civil War was a conflict between the northern part of Sudan and a south that demanded more regional autonomy.
  1956–1959: The Cuban Revolution led by Fidel Castro removes the government of General Fulgencio Batista. By 1962 Cuba had been transformed into a declared socialist republic.
  1956–1962: The Border Campaign led by the Irish Republican Army against the British, along the border of the independent Republic of Ireland and British Northern Ireland.
  1956: De-Stalinization revolution in the Eastern Bloc:
  The Khrushchev Thaw
  The 1956 Georgian demonstrations
  The Poznań protests, a workers' uprising in the Polish People's Republic that was suppressed.
  The Polish October
  The Hungarian Revolution, a failed workers' and peasants' revolution against the Soviet-supported communist state in Hungary.
  The Bucharest student movement
  1956: The Tibetan rebellions against Chinese rule broke out in Amdo and Kham.
  1958: A popular revolt in Venezuela against military dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez culminates in a civic-military coup d'état.
  1958: The Iraqi Revolution (14 July Revolution) led by nationalist soldiers abolishes the British-backed monarchy, executes many of its top officials, and begins to assert the country's independence from both Cold War power blocs.
  1959: The failed Tibetan uprising against Chinese rule led to the flight of the Dalai Lama.
  1959–1962: In the Rwandan Revolution, the Tutsi king of Rwanda is forced into exile by Hutu extremists; racial pogroms follow an assassination attempt on Hutu leader Grégoire Kayibanda.
caption: Raúl Castro (left), with his arm around second-in-command, Ernesto "Che" Guevara, in their Sierra de Cristal Mountain stronghold in Oriente Province Cuba, 1958.
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