regime change

noun

Meaning

The overthrow of a government that is considered an illegitimate regime by means of external force (especially military might), and its replacement with a new government according to the concept of political legitimacy promoted by that force, as was done in World War II to Italy, Germany, and Japan.

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Related words

rollback(English)regime(English)counterregime(English)democratic revolution(English)kratocracy(English)putinisation(English)counterrevolution(English)consent of the governed(English)

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