الموقف الأمريكي من الثورة الأثيوبية عام 1974

Abstract EN

Since the advent of the Emperor Haile selassie to power in 1930, the Ethiopian people were subject to autocratic authority and feudal system.

Administrative corruption, incompetence and neglect of the interests of the people were prominent features of that system.

Thus, the beginning of 1974 witnessed an explosion in political activity in Ethiopia, The apparent collapse of the Haile selassie power and the inability of the imperial structures of the government to contain the social forces that demand change to launch a comprehensive struggle to change power by the groups that have been mobilized revolutionary.

The United States of America left Haile selassie, its main ally in the Horn of Africa, facing its own destiny.

This was due to the age of the Emperor and his failure to achieve any economic and social progress, And the lack of a successor reassures the US administration of its loyalty to it and coincided with the announcement of the Nixon principle and the state of harmony that prevailed between the United States and the Soviet Union.

With the decline of US military support for the Haile selassie regime and the growing political protests, the military seized the opportunity to control the situation in the country.

The emperor was deposed on September 12, 1974.