PORTUGAL-CARNATION REVOLUTION

A young man speaks, on May 1, 1974 on Rossio Square in Lisbon, while a tank with Armed Forces movement soldiers guards the square, after the April 25 military coup that overthrew the authoritarian "Estado Novo" government and the Carnation Revolution. 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)