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Greek People's Liberation Army
The Greek People's Liberation Army (Greek: Ελληνικός Λαϊκός Απελευθερωτικός Στρατός, ELAS) was the military wing of the EAM resistance in Axis-occupied Greece, founded in December 1941.
Greek Resistance
The Greek Resistance (Εθνική Αντίσταση) was the armed resistance of the Greek people against Axis occupation forces from 1941 to 1944, led by the Communist-backed EAM and its ELAS army.
Green armies (Зелёная Армия)
Green armies (Зелёная Армия) were irregular peasant formations in the Russian Civil War (1918–1922). They arose from Red Army deserters protesting grain requisitioning in Siberia and the Caucasus.
Green Line (Israel)
Green Line: the 1949 armistice demarcation lines between Israel and Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria, named for their green map color; Israel's de facto boundary until June 1967, later the reference line for land-for-peace proposals.
Greensboro massacre
The Greensboro massacre: November 3, 1979 shooting in Greensboro, North Carolina, in which KKK and American Nazi Party members killed five Communist Workers Party anti-Klan marchers, leading to acquittals and the first US truth commission.
Grigory Kulik
Grigory Ivanovich Kulik (Григорий Иванович Кулик) was a Soviet military leader made Marshal of the Soviet Union in 1940, stripped of his ranks in 1942, and executed in 1950.
Grigory Shtern
Grigory Shtern (Григорий Михайлович Штерн) was a Soviet colonel general who commanded in the Spanish Civil War, at Lake Khasan, Khalkhin Gol, and the Winter War before being shot in 1941.
Grito de Asencio
The Grito de Asencio was an armed uprising of 28 February 1811 in the Banda Oriental, when patriots led by Pedro José Viera and Venancio Benavídez rose against Spanish rule.
Grito de Lares
The Grito de Lares, or Cry of Lares, was a rebellion against Spanish rule in Lares, Puerto Rico, on September 23, 1868, proclaiming the Republic of Puerto Rico; it was planned by Ramón Emeterio Betances.
Guadalcanal campaign
Guadalcanal campaign (Operation Watchtower), August 1942 to February 1943, the first major Allied amphibious offensive of World War II in the Pacific. Centered on Henderson Field; ended with Japanese withdrawal and marked the Pacific War's turning point.
Guangxi Massacre (广西大屠杀)
Guangxi Massacre (广西大屠杀), also called the Guangxi Cultural Revolution Massacre: mass killings and factional civil war in Guangxi, 1967–1968, during the Cultural Revolution, with an estimated 100,000–150,000 deaths, documented cannibalism, and 1983–1987 Party investigations.
Guanqiu Jian's campaigns against Goguryeo
Guanqiu Jian's campaigns against Goguryeo were invasions of the Korean kingdom of Goguryeo by Cao Wei, commanded by the Wei general Guanqiu Jian from 244 to 246.
Guatemalan Civil War
Guatemalan Civil War (Guerra Civil de Guatemala, 1960–1996): 36-year conflict between the Guatemalan state and leftist guerrillas such as the URNG; over 200,000 killed, UN-documented genocide against the Maya, ended by the 1996 Firm and Lasting Peace accord.
Guatemalan genocide
Guatemalan genocide: army killings of Maya peoples, chiefly Ixil, during 1981-1983 scorched-earth counterinsurgency under Lucas García and Ríos Montt; UN CEH found acts of genocide; Ríos Montt convicted in 2013.
Guatemalan Peace Accords
The Guatemalan Peace Accords are the agreements signed between 1991 and 1996 by the Guatemalan government and the URNG guerrilla alliance, ending the country's 36-year internal armed conflict.
Guatemalan–Salvadoran War of 1885
The Guatemalan–Salvadoran War of 1885, also called the Intentona de Barrios, was an April 1885 war begun after Guatemalan President Justo Rufino Barrios proclaimed the union of the five Central American republics.
Guayana campaign
The Guayana campaign (Campaña de Guayana) was the 1816–1817 series of operations by which republican forces under Manuel Piar and Simón Bolívar liberated Venezuela's Guayana province.
Guerrero guerrilla movement
The Guerrero guerrilla movement was a rural insurgency in Mexico's Guerrero state, chiefly Lucio Cabañas's Partido de los Pobres and Genaro Vázquez's ACNR, active from 1967 to 1974.
Guevarism
Guevarism, also called foquismo, is Che Guevara's revolutionary theory holding that a small guerrilla foco can create revolutionary conditions, systematized by Debray in 1967 and discredited by failed insurgencies after Guevara's 1967 death in Bolivia.
Guinea-Bissau Civil War
The Guinea-Bissau Civil War was an eleven-month conflict in 1998 and 1999 between President João Bernardo Vieira's government and a military junta led by Ansumane Mané.
Guinea-Bissau War of Independence
The Guinea-Bissau War of Independence (1963–1974) was the guerrilla war fought between the PAIGC and Portugal that ended Portuguese rule in what was then Portuguese Guinea.
Gukurahundi
Gukurahundi, or Operation Gukurahundi, was a campaign of state violence in Zimbabwe's Matabeleland and Midlands provinces from 1982 to 1987, killing thousands of Ndebele civilians.
Gulf of Sidra incident (1981)
The Gulf of Sidra incident (1981), first of three US-Libya confrontations in the gulf: on August 19, 1981, F-14 Tomcats shot down two Libyan Su-22s during a freedom-of-navigation exercise, after the Su-22s fired first, amid Libya's 'Line of Death' waters claim.
Gulf of Tonkin incident
Gulf of Tonkin incident (Sự kiện Vịnh Bắc Bộ): two reported August 1964 attacks on U.S. destroyers off North Vietnam; the August 2 Maddox attack was real, the August 4 attack never happened, and the resulting resolution authorized the Vietnam War.
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution
Gulf of Tonkin Resolution (Southeast Asia Resolution, Public Law 88-408), the August 7, 1964 joint resolution authorizing President Johnson to take all necessary measures in Southeast Asia after reported attacks on the USS Maddox; it became the Vietnam War's legal basis and was repealed in 1971.
Gulf War
The Gulf War, also known as Operation Desert Storm, was a 1990–1991 war in which a US-led coalition of about 35 nations expelled Iraq from Kuwait.
Gulf War air campaign
The Gulf War air campaign (Operation Desert Storm air offensive, 1991) was the 43-day coalition air war against Iraq, flying about 40,000 strike sorties with 8 percent guided munitions accounting for 84 percent of munitions cost.
Gulf War syndrome
Gulf War syndrome, now usually called Gulf War illness, is a chronic multisymptom condition affecting up to one-third of the roughly 700,000 US veterans deployed in the 1990-1991 Persian Gulf War; cause and effective treatments remain undetermined.
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral: October 26, 1881 shootout in Tombstone, Arizona Territory, where Virgil, Wyatt, Morgan Earp and Doc Holliday killed Billy Clanton and the McLaury brothers in about thirty seconds on Fremont Street.
Gungye's Rebellion
Gungye's Rebellion was the rise and fall of Gung Ye, who founded the state of Later Goguryeo in 901 during Korea's Later Three Kingdoms period and was overthrown in 918.