PORTUGAL-CARNATION REVOLUTION

A happy crowd holding bouquets of carnations demonstrates on May 01, 1974 on Rossio square in Lisbon, after the Carnation Revolution and the April 25 coup that overthrew the authoritarian "Estado Novo" government. On April 25, 1974 in Lisbon, a military coup, known as the Carnation Revolution or "the 25 April", led by a group of left-leaning military officers gathered in the Armed Forces Movement (Movimento das Forças Armadas, MFA), and soon coupled with an unanticipated popular civil resistance campaign overthrew the authoritarian "Estado Novo" government, producing major social, economic, territorial, demographic, and political changes marking the end of dictatorship and leading the country towards democracy. (Photo by AFP) (Photo by -/AFP via Getty Images)