puppet states
Nominally independent countries
Puppet states are countries that appear independent but are actually controlled by a more powerful nation.
The term implies the smaller state's government answers to foreign interests rather than its own people, like a puppet manipulated by strings.
Historical examples include Japanese-controlled Manchukuo and various Soviet satellite states.
Critics called the new government a puppet state of the occupying power.
- protectorateGuarded semi-autonomous territory
- surrogateOne acting for another
- clientOne who hires professionals
- satelliteOrbiting celestial body
- marionetteString-controlled theatrical figure
vassal · proxy · subsidiary · East Germany · iron curtain · occupation · Vichy France · neocolonialism · dependent · occupation zone · occupied territory · regime · regime change · colonies · subjugation · collaborationist · annexation · economic exploitation
- Apartheidapartheid, pass laws, Group Areas Act, passbook, passbooks
- Cold WarBerlin Wall, Iron Curtain, arms race, Warsaw Pact, Cuban Missile Crisis
- colonialismcolony, colonization, colonial rule, colonial powers, colonizer
- Napoleonic EraNapoleon, Napoleon Bonaparte, Bonaparte, Napoleonic Wars, Napoleonic Code
- Asian ColonialismBritish Raj, British India, Dutch East Indies, French Indochina, East India Company
- Cold War OriginsIron Curtain, Truman Doctrine, Marshall Plan, Berlin Blockade, Berlin Airlift
puppet statespuppet masters
Controllers of others' actions
superpowers · colonial powers · empires · great powers · world powers
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