Then they moved offices of the East German puppet government into East Berlin and began illegally to treat it as the capital of East Germany.

It also involved Britain's repeated attempts to impose a puppet government in Kabul.

The Italians established a puppet government in Albania under Mustafa Merlika-Kruja.

After resistance by Churchill and Roosevelt, Stalin promised a re-organization of the current Communist puppet government on a broader democratic basis in Poland.

Terboven nevertheless remained in ultimate charge of Norway until the end of the war in 1945, even after the proclamation of a Norwegian puppet regime under Vidkun Quisling, the Quisling government.

Attempts were made to establish a puppet Chinese government, under Nationalist defector Wang Ching-wei, but this also proved unsuccessful.

They renamed the area Manchukuo, and on 9 March 1932 set up a puppet government, with Pu Yi, the former emperor of China, as its executive head.

In November 1942, the Italian Army invaded and occupied Monaco, setting up a fascist puppet government.

* 1940 – Sino-Japanese War: Japan declares Nanking capital of a new Chinese puppet government, nominally controlled by Wang Ching-wei.

Even the government functions primarily as a puppet state of the network executives, serving mainly to pass laws — such as banning off switches on televisions — that protect and consolidate the networks ' power.

Simultaneously, Stalin set up a puppet government in the Finnish Democratic Republic.

Nigeria extended diplomatic support to another Marxist cause, Sam Nujoma's SWAPO movement in Namibia, to stall the apartheid South African installed puppet government in Namibia.

In 1931, an increasingly militaristic Japanese Empire, which had long sought influence in China as the first step of what its government saw as the country's right to rule Asia, used the Mukden Incident as a pretext to launch an invasion of Manchuria and establish the puppet state of Manchukuo.

* The Spartan general, Lysander, puts in place a puppet government in Athens with the establishment of the oligarchy of the " Thirty Tyrants " under Critias and including Theramenes as a leading member.

* 1270 – In Korea, the Sambyeolcho Rebellion begins against the Goryeo Dynasty, a puppet government of Kublai Khan.

* 1273 – In Korea, the Sambyeolcho Rebellion against the Goryeo Dynasty ( a puppet government of the Yuan Dynasty ) ends as rebel forces are defeated by combined Yuan and Goryeo forces.

To prevent this, the Soviet-controlled communist government formed a puppet PSL-Piast and, after rigging an important referendum, forced the real PSL to unite with it, forming United People's Party — a satellite of the Communist Party.

* In Korea, the Sambyeolcho Rebellion against the Goryeo Dynasty ( a puppet government of the Yuan Dynasty ) ends as rebel forces are defeated by combined Yuan and Goryeo forces.

* In Korea, the Sambyeolcho Rebellion begins against the Goryeo Dynasty, a puppet government of the Mongol Empire.

During World War II, the Nazis attempted to establish a puppet Belarusian government, Belarusian Central Rada, with the symbolics similar to BNR.

After unsuccessfully attempting to force territorial and other concessions on the Finns, the Soviet Union invaded Finland in November 1939 during the Winter War, intending to establish a communist puppet government in Finland.

"" Witnessing the aftermath of the Polish October, in which students had protested against the governing Communist Party of Poland, he felt that the Polish people widely disliked their far left government, viewing them as a puppet regime of the foreign Soviet Union.

Relations between Britain and Spain dramatically improved during subsequent years thanks to a concerted effort by the Duke of Newcastle to cultivate Spain as an ally, and a wish by the Spanish government not to be seen as a puppet of France.

The communists in southern Vietnam resolved that " if we are able to kill Ngô Đình Diệm, the leader of the current fascists dictatorial puppet government, the situation would develop along lines more favourable to our side.

Lysander then put in place a puppet government in Athens with the establishment of the oligarchy of the Thirty Tyrants under Critias which included Theramenes as a leading member.

On 19 February 1329 Nicholas V presided at a bizarre ceremony in the Duomo of Pisa, at which a straw puppet representing Pope John XXII and dressed in pontifical robes was formally condemned, degraded, and handed over to the secular arm ( to be " executed ").

His nephew, Emperor Houshao, viewed as a mere puppet of Grand Empress Dowager Lü and suspected of not being actually a son of Emperor Wen's older brother Emperor Hui, was deposed and executed.

Verhoeven also states that the tone of the violence was changed to a more upsetting tone due to the deletions requested by the MPAA, and that the deletions also remove footage of the extensive animatronic puppet of Murphy just before he is executed by Boddicker.

The occupying Germans and their puppet regime also destroyed much of the agriculture of the region and executed close to 20, 000 people in Kalmykia, including 100 Jews.

He sent troops to Dadu and Shangdu, and executed rebellious officers before he entered Dadu because he feared to become a puppet of them.

Flat Eric featured in the video for Mr. Oizo's " Flat Beat " in 1999 ; the puppet and instrumental UK number one were popularised through use in advert for Levi Strauss & Co. | Levi's Sta-Prest jeans.

During Japan's imperial period, and particularly during the Pacific War ( parts of which are considered the Pacific theatre of World War II ), Japan established a number of states that historians have come to consider puppet régimes.

Sanetomo was never anything more than a puppet for his mother Hōjō Masako, who used him as a pawn in her war with Tokimasa-Tokimasa would try to depose his grandson a number of times, beginning in 1205, causing Sanetomo to fear for his life the rest of his days.

The more recent puppet looks different from the original 1960s / 1970s puppet in a number of aspects, but the ' well-spoken ' voice of Basil is similar to the original Ivan Owen version, modeled on Terry-Thomas.

In 481 the Tian chief killed a puppet duke, most of the ruler's family and a number of rival chiefs.

A new National Liberal cabinet, formed by Ion G. Duca, moved against such initiatives, stating that the Legion was acting as a puppet of the German Nazi Party, and ordering that a huge number of Legionaries be arrested just prior to the new elections in 1933 ( which the Liberals won ).

* Naniwa miyage ( 1738 ; written by a friend & preserves a number of statements by Chikamatsu on the art of the puppet theater )

Other puppet characters included Heidi Doody ( Howdy's sister ), Mayor Phineas T. Bluster, Dilly Dally, Inspector John J. Fadoozle (" America's number 1 private eye "), Sandra the Witch, Princess Summerfall Winterspring, Capt.

The framing device had an old storyteller ( John Hurt ) sitting by a fire telling each tale to both the viewers and to his talking dog ( a realistic looking puppet performed and voiced by Brian Henson ) who acted as the voice of the viewers, and was written in a language and traditional style in keeping with old Indo-European based folk tales ( for instance the number 3 appears as significant in every episode ).

British satirical show Spitting Image, who frequently ended each episode with a musical number, rounded off a season with a puppet of Margaret Thatcher singing the song word-for-word.

Azad Hind was recognized as a legitimate and independent successor state to British rule in India by only a small number of countries, limited almost solely to Axis powers and their affiliate states and puppet regimes.

They produced one pope from among their number — John XIII — and controlled most of the others, whom the leaders of the Crescentii installed as puppet popes.

FC Saarbrücken was one of a number of sides forced out of German football, but unlike other clubs they did not play in the puppet league: instead the strong side became part of the French second division as FC Sarrebruck.

The exhibit includes an impressive number of props, costumes and models, including the Yoda puppet, C-3P0, " Naked " C-3P0, R2-D2, the Chewbacca costume, the three-section Darth Vader helmet from Revenge of the Sith, as well as the models of the X-wing, Millennium Falcon and many others used in the films.

The timely arrival of reinforcements led by Kankuro and Gaara turns the tide, with Kankuro slicing apart a suit of armor with his puppet, and Gaara dispatching a large number of enemies en masse with his signature Desert Imperial Funeral.

The show had a number of hosts who were accompanied by Agro, a puppet played by Jamie Dunn.

The puppet may shift from side to side, look around, lean or straighten, fidget ( with part of the stage, its own clothing or hair, or any available object ), cross or uncross its arms, sigh, tilt its head, or make any number of other small motions, in order to continue to appear lifelike.

Italian mouse puppet Topo Gigio came back a number of times.