Talk:Puppet state/the list

message: ===United States===
As one of two major participants in the Cold War, and a significant power in the Western Hemisphere since then, the United States has been accused many times of controlling foreign puppet states. For instance, between 1903 and 1968, the US-appointed governor of the Panama Canal Zone was said to have more power than the elected head of state. Similarly, US interventions in Haiti (between 1915 and 1934 and from 2004 to the present) and the Dominican Republic (1916-1924 and 1965-1978) have led to similar accusations.
Especially during the Cold War, the US was accused of controlling South Korea and South Vietnam as puppet states, especially during the Korean and Vietnam wars. Even now, however, North Korea's government reiterates the accusation about South Korea. The convened National Assembly in Cambodia deposed Norodom Sihanouk in 1970 in favor of the pro-US Prime Minister Lon Nol, another example of a regime accused of being a US puppet state.
Grenada's (1983-1984) interim government led by Sir Nicholas Brathwaite was established after the Invasion of Grenada in 1983 under considerable US influence, leading to similar accusations. In more recent times, the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan and 2003 invasion of Iraq have led to largely U.S.-led nation-building efforts in these two nations, fostering accusations among critics of the administration that the governments established under U.S. occupation, particularly the Iraqi Interim Government, were American puppet states.
===Soviet Union===
Before and especially during the Cold War, the accusation was often made by the Western Bloc that the entire Eastern Bloc consisted of nothing but Soviet puppet states. Chief among these were the Warsaw Pact satellite states: Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, East Germany (1945-1989). The Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia during Prague Spring in 1968 was seen as a response to Czechoslovakia deviating from the strict course set by Moscow, in effect publicly enforcing its authority over the puppet states. The Soviet point of view, as expressed in the Brezhnev Doctrine, differed from the Western interpretation.
Other communist states accused of being Soviet puppet states included:
* Far Eastern Republic (1920-1923) - Set up by the Bolsheviks in the Russian Far East.
* Hungarian Soviet Republic (1919) - Short-lived government under the leadership of Béla Kun.
* Mongolian People's Republic (1924-1992).
* Democratic People's Republic of Korea at its founding in 1948 with the assistance of the USSR.
* People's Republic of China - The Communist Party of China finally defeated the Kuomintang in 1949. Despite the fact that the Chinese communist movement had developed largely independently of the Soviet Union, the position that the PRC was a Soviet puppet state was commonly taken by American propaganda of the 1950s. The PRC and the USSR later broke relations in 1962, an incident known as the Sino-Soviet Split.
* Democratic Republic of Vietnam (1950-1976) - Established with substantial support from both the USSR and PRC, later absorbed the Republic of Vietnam to become the united Socialist Republic of Vietnam (1976-present).
* Communist Cuba (1959-1991) - Supported by the Soviet Union (substantially after the Cuban Missile Crisis).
* People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (1969-1990).
* People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (1975-1990).
* Mozambique under FRELIMO (1975-1991) - Supported by the Soviet Union and Cuba.
* Angola under the MPLA (1975-1991) - Supported by the Soviet Union and Cuba.
* Nicaragua under the Sandinistas (1979-1990) - Supported by the Soviet Union and Cuba.
* Grenada after the New Jewel Movement-led coup (1979-1983), under the leadership of later-deposed Maurice Bishop as well as Bernard Coard, supported by the Soviet Union and Cuba.
* Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (1979-1990).
Yugoslavia was uniquely a socialist country that rather than joining the communist bloc started the Non-Aligned Movement to stay out of Cold War politics. North Korea is another socialist state that has charted an independent course, embracing complete isolationism under the Juche ideology. Cuba since the fall of the Soviet Union has continued to exist as a small, independent socialist state.
===Vietnam===
During the Vietnam War, North Vietnam was accused of holding puppet states in Southeast Asia, particularly in Cambodia and Laos.
* Democratic Kampuchea (1975-1979); People's Republic of Kampuchea (1979-1989) - The Khmer Rouge (Communist Party of Cambodia) under Pol Pot received significant assistance from the North Vietnamese Army but felt betrayed by the abandonment of the movement after the 1973 Paris Peace Accords.  When the party captured Phnom Penh in 1975 it appeared as a homogenous victory of communist forces that year on the Indochinese peninsula, yet tensions mounted between Cambodia and the united Vietnamese government, with the People's Republic of China supporting the position of Phnom Penh and the USSR that of Hanoi.  This culminated in an invasion of Cambodia by Vietnam (and subsequently Vietnam by China) in which a more Vietnamese-friendly regime was installed under the leadership of Hun Sen.
* Lao People's Democratic Republic under the Pathet Lao (1975-present) - Defeated the loyalist forces in Laos in 1975 with the assistance of North Vietnam, having a Hanoi-friendly (and USSR-supplied) regime since.
===Imperial Japan===
During Japan's imperial period, and particularly during the Pacific War (parts of which are considered the Pacific theatre of World War II), Japan established a number of states that historians have come to consider puppet states.
* Manchukuo (1931-1945), set up in Manchuria under the leadership of Emperor Puyi.
* Mengjiang (1936-1945), similar to Manchukuo but in Inner Mongolia.
* Reformed Government of the Republic of China  (1937-1945) - Established in Nanjing by collaborationists under Wang Jingwei.
* Burma (1942-1945) - Head of state Ba Maw.
===Axis-occupied Europe puppet states===
Most of the West-European governments under the domination of Nazi Germany, particularly the fascist-leaning, during World War II are now and then called puppet régimes, not the least in Allied literature:
* Belgium (1939-1945) - The violent Rexist movement had achieved some electoral success in the 1930s and many of its members assisted the Nazi occupation during World War II.
* Croatia (April 10, 1941-May 8, 1945)- The Independent State of Croatia, often referred to simply by the abbreviation NDH, was a World War II puppet state of Germany and Italy, which was established in parts of Axis-occupied Yugoslavia.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.10.88.241 (talk) 14:13, 27 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: Accusations of puppet states since 1900

message: Most of the West-European governments under the domination of Nazi Germany, particularly the fascist-leaning, during World War II are now and then called puppet régimes, not the least in Allied literature:
* Belgium (1939-1945) - The violent Rexist movement had achieved some electoral success in the 1930s and many of its members assisted the Nazi occupation during World War II.
* Croatia (April 10, 1941-May 8, 1945)- The Independent State of Croatia, often referred to simply by the abbreviation NDH, was a World War II puppet state of Germany and Italy, which was established in parts of Axis-occupied Yugoslavia.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 87.10.88.241 (talk) 14:13, 27 February 2016 (UTC)
thread_title: [[Axis Powers|Axis-occupied Europe]] puppet states