A coup is a sudden overthrow of a government. Most often coups are violent.

a. True

b. False

A coup is a sudden overthrow of a government.

Most coups indeed are violent - a.

The degree of violence itself, however, is something that is subject to change from coup to coup. It doesn't necessarily mean that tens of thousands or hundreds of people will die, but that there will be some violent uprisings in general. An example of a violent coup would be the coups found in the Arab spring.

Coup, also known as coup d'etat is more often violent than not violent - the correct answer is A. true.

Examples of violent coup d'etats are Iraqi coup d'etat in 1936 and coup d'etats in Venezuela in 1992.

A special coup was the Coup d'etat in Portugal in 1974 - it was very unusual in that it was not violent.