French Resistance

In the 1850’s, French imperialism had spread into a South-east Asian region known as Indochina (the modern world knows this region as Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia). Since French colonialism speculation against the French had increased in Indochina, and many natives struggled for independence. The struggle had started when the separated Vietnam into 3 separate regions, Annam, Tonkin and Cochinchina causing grief for the Vietnamese. Although, the French had provided the Vietnamese with education and…

period of severe violence during the French Revolution, which was led by Maximilien Robespierre. Robespierre and the Committee of Public Safety ruled during the Reign of Terror and killed thousands at the guillotine. Robespierre’s followers were called the Jacobins which were the most powerful and radical political faction during the time and he was a spokesman for urban workers, who became known as the sans-culottes. The purpose of the terror was to crush the resistance to the revolution,…

people to act upon them to positively change society. These individuals included the French Revolutionists who propelled the French Revolution from ideas to actions. Although other factors influenced the French Revolution, the concepts of the Enlightenment provided the French people an idea of how to construct their new republic. The ideas of the Enlightenment positively influenced the…

rested upon necessary changes in British society, becoming ‘European’ by instigating colonial resistance movements in various territories under threat of Napoleonic acquisition such as Spain . Britain considered it vital to disrupt the Spanish empire, so that the French could not fully incorporate it and the empire had too many territories for full scale bombardment and carefully planned relations with resistance movements in Spanish colonies was the best course of…

values were promoted by the Enlightenment ideals that swept through Europe in the eighteenth century, and are considered influential in the mobilisation of action in both French society and the American colonies. While there are similarities between the two revolutions, the main differences are in the governmental structures of the French Kingdom and the American colonies. The financial crisis created by funding decades of costly wars was a key factor in the events leading to the revolutions in…

In 1921, an army led by Abd-el-Krim won an impressive battle over the Spanish to maintain control of the Rif, the coastal area by Tetouan. Abd-el-Krim maintained control of the Rif until 1926 when a combined French and Spanish force of 250,000 men overtook Abd-el-Krim’s army. This defeat resulted in the Moroccan people looking towards a new age of ideology. Groups of young educated Moroccans began demanding political freedom and even spoke about independence…

insecurity. The recent memory of the Reign of Terror left the french people hungering for stability and safety from the bloody Revolution. The Directory,…

the revolution. Their beliefs led to various stages of the revolution with different enlightened ideas for what fitted the country the best in terms of its political, and economic situations. The first stage of the French Revolution used the ideas of Montesquieu, Locke, Voltaire,…

Human Rights During the French and American Revolution During the French and American Revolutions some humans were treated very poorly and others not so poorly. The Americans treated their people with respect and dignity where as the French treated their people almost like they were property, they were charged more for certain items as well as being forced out of their homes. John Locke once said “government is morally obliged to serve people, namely by protecting life, liberty, and property”…

The French revolution ideal was to become independent from the crown, whereas the Haitian revolution ideal was to maintain their freedom from the chains. The French revolution’s main motivation was the abuse of power in the hands of the royal, nobles (400 thousand) and the church (100 thousand). Since each class had one vote the church and the nobles joined votes to overrule votes that could have aided the peasants, merchants, etc. (25 million). When the representatives of the 3rd class joined…