List of Revolutions and Rebellions - 1940s

1940s

• 1940–1944: The Insurgency in Chechnya.
• 1940–1947: Mohammad Ali Jinnah's struggle for a separate state for the Muslims of India.
• 1941: The June Uprising against the Soviet Union in Lithuania.
• 1941–1945: Yugoslav People's Liberation War against the Axis Powers in World War II.
• 1941–1944: Greek Resistance
• 1942: Sri Lankan soldiers ignite the Cocos Islands Mutiny in an unsuccessful attempt to transfer the islands to Japanese control.
• 1942: The destruction of the German garrison in Lenin.
• 1943: The Warsaw Ghetto Uprising.
• 1943: The uprising at Treblinka extermination camp.
• 1943: The uprising at Sobibór extermination camp.
• 1943: The Woyane Rebellion in northern Ethiopia threatens to topple the newly restored government, and is put down with British help.
• 1943–1945: Italian Resistance Movement against the Fascist Italian Social Republic, culminating in the 25th April final insurrection in Northern Italy.
• 1944: The Guatemalan Revolution overthrows the dictator Federico Ponce Vaides by liberal military officers.
• 1944: The Warsaw Uprising was an armed struggle during the Second World War by the Polish Home Army (Armia Krajowa) to liberate Warsaw from German occupation and Nazi rule. It started on 1 August 1944.
• 1944: The Paris Uprising staged by the French Resistance against the German Paris garrison.
• 1944: The Slovak National Uprising against Nazi Germany.
• 1944: The uprising at Auschwitz extermination camp.
• 1944–1947: A Communist-friendly government was installed in Bulgaria following a coup d'état and the Soviet invasion.
• 1944: Following the liberation of Albania, the Communist Party of Albania under Enver Hoxha consolidated its control and declared the People's Republic of Albania in January 1946.
• 1944–1949: The Greek Civil War.
• 1944–1965: The Forest Brothers Rebellion in Baltic states against Soviet Union.
• 1945: The first anti-communist revolt in Eastern Europe in Koplik, Albania led by bayraktars and intellectuals.
• 1945–1949: The Indonesian National Revolution against Dutch after their independence from Japan. Led by Soekarno, Hatta, Tan Malaka, etc. with the Dutch led by Van Mook.
• 1945: The Prague uprising against German occupation during World War II.
• 1945: The August Revolution led by Ho Chi Minh declared the independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam from French rule.
• 1945: A democratic revolution in Venezuela, led by Rómulo Betancourt.
• 1946: The Royal Indian Navy Mutiny takes place in Bombay, and spreads to different parts of British India, demanding Indian independence.
• 1946: Another attempt of anti-communist forces in Albania to take out the government takes place in Shkoder.
• 1946: The Battle of Athens, Tennessee (aka the McMinn County War); a local revolt against officials accused of rigging local elections.
• 1946–1951: The Telengana Rebellion: a Communist-led peasant revolt in Hyderabad State, India.
• 1947: Three months after an abortive coup, civil war broke out in Paraguay. The rebellion was crushed by the government of dictator Higinio Morínigo.
• 1947 : Sardar Muhammad Ibrahim Khan waged and led a guerrilla war against the Maharaja Hari Singh of Kashmir and formed a revolutionary Government on 24 October under his Presidency. He captured a large area of Kashmir called Azad Kashmir.
• 1947–1952: In the Albanian Subversion, the intelligence services of the United States and Britain deployed exiled fascists, Nazis, and monarchists in a failed attempt to foment a counterrevolution in Communist-ruled Albania.
• 1947: Angami Zapu Phizo declared the independence of Nagaland from India only to be subdued by the Indian army.
• 1947: The 228 Massacre occurred following discontent and resentment of the native Taiwanese under the early rule of the KMT of the island.
• 1948: The Costa Rican Civil War precipitated by the vote of the Costa Rican Legislature, dominated by pro-government representatives, to annul the results of the presidential election of 1948.
• 1948: Following the liberation of Korea, Marxist former guerrillas under Kim Il Sung work to rapidly industrialize the country and rid it of the last vestiges of "feudalism.".
• 1948–1960: The Malayan Emergency.
• 1948: Al-Wathbah (the Leap) uprising in Iraq.
• 1949: The communists under chairman Mao Zedong expels the ruling Nationalist Party in the Civil War and establishes the People's Republic of China. The Republic of China's control is reduced to Taiwan and its outlying islands.