resistance movement
C3700
concept
A resistance movement is an organized effort by a group of people to oppose, undermine, or overthrow an existing power, authority, or occupying force, often through political, social, or guerrilla actions.
Aliases (28)
- World War II resistance movement ×14
- guerrilla movement ×9
- World War II resistance organization ×3
- underground military organization ×3
- Polish resistance movement ×2
- anti-Bolshevik movement ×2
- anti-war organization ×2
- armed resistance movement ×2
- rebel group ×2
- French Resistance group ×1
- Greek resistance movement ×1
- Jewish resistance during the Holocaust ×1
- Kurdish nationalist movement ×1
- Native American resistance ×1
- Native American resistance movement ×1
- World War I resistance movement ×1
- World War II resistance ×1
- abolitionist action ×1
- anti-Axis movement ×1
- anti-Nazi resistance organization ×1
- anti-apartheid movement ×1
- anti-racist movement ×1
- liberation struggle ×1
- mujahideen movement ×1
- rebel army ×1
- resistance operation ×1
- tax resistance movement ×1
- underground resistance organization ×1
Instances (75)
- Kheda Satyagraha ("tax resistance movement")
- National Liberation Front (EAM)
- FFL
- European resistance movements
- Warsaw Ghetto Uprising ("Jewish resistance during the Holocaust")
- Free France
- Home Army (Armia Krajowa) ("Polish resistance movement")
- Home Army ("Polish resistance movement")
- Viet Cong ("guerrilla movement")
- FALINTIL ("armed resistance movement")
- National Council of Timorese Resistance
- Organization of the Polish underground resistance against Nazi Germany
- Defiance Campaign ("anti-apartheid movement")
- Rebel Army ("guerrilla movement")
- Iraqi Kurdish rebellions ("Kurdish nationalist movement")
- Viet Minh ("guerrilla movement")
- White Guard movement ("anti-Bolshevik movement")
- Directorate of Civil Resistance ("World War II resistance organization")
- Peasant Battalions (as allied formation) ("World War II resistance movement")
- National Armed Forces (partially subordinated) ("World War II resistance movement")
- Żegota ("World War II resistance organization")
- Bureau of Information and Propaganda ("underground resistance organization")
- Service for Poland’s Victory ("World War II resistance movement")
- Union of Armed Struggle ("World War II resistance movement")
- Black feminist movement ("anti-racist movement")
- Zealots ("rebel group")
- Vercors Massif ("French Resistance group")
- Yugoslav Partisans
- Umkhonto we Sizwe ("guerrilla movement")
- Chetniks ("guerrilla movement")
- Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front ("guerrilla movement")
- FMLN ("guerrilla movement")
- Slovak resistance movement
- Soviet partisans
- SNP ("armed resistance movement")
- Little Turtle's War ("Native American resistance")
- John Brown’s raid of 1859 ("abolitionist action")
- Spartacus League ("anti-war organization")
- EAM (National Liberation Front) ("Greek resistance movement")
- Polish Underground State
- Greek People’s Liberation Army (ELAS)
- Polisario Front ("rebel group")
- AK
- Operation Wieniec ("resistance operation")
- Jewish Combat Organization ("World War II resistance movement")
- Jewish Military Union ("underground military organization")
- World Peace Council ("anti-war organization")
- Communist Party of Peru – Shining Path ("guerrilla movement")
- Antonovshchina ("anti-Bolshevik movement")
- Albanian resistance ("World War II resistance movement")
- Irish Republican Army (1919–1922) ("rebel army")
- Danish resistance movement
- Eritrean War of Independence ("liberation struggle")
- Czechoslovak independence movement ("World War I resistance movement")
- Afghan mujahideen ("guerrilla movement")
- Luxembourg Resistance
- French Forces of the Interior
- Red Bird uprising ("Native American resistance movement")
- Czechoslovak resistance
- Harakat-i Inqilab-i Islami ("mujahideen movement")
- Slovak National Uprising