List of Revolutions and Rebellions - 1920s

1920s

• 1920: The Pitchfork Uprising was a peasant uprising against the Soviet policy of the war communism in what is today Tatarstan.
• 1920–1922: Gandhi led Non-cooperation movement.
• 1920-1922: The fascist national revolution in Italy. Led by the former socialist leader Benito Mussolini.
• 1921: The Battle of Blair Mountain ten to fifteen thousand coal miners rebel in West Virginia, assaulting mountain-top lines of trenches established by the coal companies and local sheriff's forces in the largest armed, organized uprising in American labor history.
• 1921: The Kronstadt rebellion of Soviet sailors against the government of the early Russian SFSR.
• 1921: The Revolt of Mirdita led by Markagjoni declares the independence of Republic of Mirdita.
• 1921–1923: The Yakut Revolt.
• 1921–1924: A revolution in (Outer) Mongolia re-establishes the country's independence and sets out to construct a Soviet-style socialist state.
• 1921: The Moplah rebellion, uprising against the colonial British authority and Hindu landlords in the Malabar in South India by Mappila Muslims, aftermath of a series of peasant uprising in the past centuries.
• 1922–1923: The Irish Civil War, between supporters of the Anglo-Irish Treaty and the government of the Irish Free State and more radical members of the original Irish Republican Army who opposed the treaty and the new government.
• 1923: Bajram Curri attacks gendarmerie of Kruma, Albania.
• 1923: The founding of the Republic of Turkey by overthrow of the Ottoman Empire and introduction of Atatürk's Reforms.
• 1923: The Klaipėda Revolt in the Memel territory that had been detached from Germany after World War I.
• 1923: The Adwan Rebellion in Jordan.
• 1925: The Sheikh Said Rebellion.
• 1925: The July Revolution in Ecuador.
• 1925–1927: The Great Syrian Revolt, a revolt initiated by the Druze and led by Sultan al-Atrash against French Mandate.
• 1926: Angry catholic peasants of Dukagjin, Shkoder fight against army and gendarmerie.
• 1926: The National Revolution in Portugal initiated a period known as the National Dictatorship.
• 1926–1929: The Cristero War in Mexico, an uprising against anti-clerical government policy.
• 1926–1927: The first PKI (Indonesian Communist Party) rebellion against colonialism and imperialism of Dutch Hindie.
• 1927: KMT Military forces in Nanchang rebelled under the leadership of He Long and Zhou Enlai, attempting to seize control of the city after the end of the first Kuomintang-Communist alliance, marking the Nanchang Uprising and the establishment of the People's Liberation Army.
• 1927: Sheikh Abdurrahman rebellion by Kurdish Zazas against Turkey.
• 1927–1930: The Wahhabi Rebellion of Ikhwan against Ibn Saud in Arabia.
• 1927–1931: The Ağrı Rebellion by Kurds against Turkey.
• 1927–1933: A rebellion led by Augusto César Sandino against the United States presence in Nicaragua.