Reign of Terror

most powerful man during the Radical phase. Robespierre wanted the same thing that the people of France did, a formation of a democratic republic, however he did it with a new idea. The people called the time that Robespierre was in charge the Reign of Terror. He created this to put fear into people that wanted to go against the new ideas. He executed people that were considered the “enemies of the Revolution.” In the year of 1793 and 1794, between 25 thousand and 50 thousand people were…

people could not do more than that. Many of the uneducated saw violence as the only way to settle political disputes since they believed that they could not get their point across in any other way. This led to many violent revolts, including the Reign of Terror. The Great Fear, when peasants attacked churches and nobles and parts of France fell into anarchy, was also caused by this. After the attack on Bastille, the poor did not know what the king would do next since they were uneducated in how…

the reign of terror’, revolutionary courts were assembled to protect the republic from its internal enemies. Many victims were persons who had opposed the radical activities of the sans-culottes. Approximately 16,00 people were officially killed and the bulk of terror’s executions took place in the areas of Lyons and Marseilles. The terror was at its most destructive in the Vendee’. In this reign, nobody was spared, women, priests, monks, children, all had been put to death. No doubt that this…

politician who created the reign of terror. The reign of terror lasted from 1793-1794. Robespierre felt that the only way to win the revolution is to kill inner and outer enemy forces. He would behead everyone who he thought was against the revolution. About 17,000 people were executed during the reign of terror. The national convention turned on the committee of public safety and they arrested Robespierre. He was executed the next day. After Robespierre died and the reign of terror was gone,…

property, security, and resistance to oppression”; which gave citizens equal right, justice, freedom of speech, and freedom of religion. The Reign of Terror The Reign of Terror was the period of Maximilien Robesiperre became the leader of the Committee of Public Safety. In 1793 and 1794 many people who had led the Revolution were executed. During the Terror, thousands of unknown people were got killed. About 40,000 people were executed during this period. About 85 percent of people were…

Maximilien Robespierre led the committee of public safety. Robespierre was a lawyer who was opposed to the monarchy. Robespierre was the force behind the reign of terror, a period of brutality in France that lasted from June 1793 to July 1794. Anyone with privileges or wealth was at risk of being killed. Families were swept from their homes and executed by furious crowds of French peasants, who were tired of poverty…

In the heart of France’s food crisis and economic troubles Jacques Necker insisted that Louis XIII call in the Estates General. The Estates General was made up of three hundred clergy, three hundred noblemen and six hundred commoners. The commoners found that vote was based on power and wealth and felt unrepresented in The Estates General. This caused the creation of the Tennis Court Oath that swore the members to assemble until the constitution of the kingdom was enacted whilst Louie XIII…

Adolf Hitler 's reign of terror was known in every country around the world during World War II. With his powerful speeches and charismatic personality he was able to rise to power very quickly in Nazi Germany, however no one knew this man would soon start another world war. Up to 1941, Hitler and Nazi army enjoyed a string of military successes, conquering most of Eastern Europe. During this time, Germany had always seen Russia as their main enemy because they were afraid of the Russians trying…

The revolution began due to the treatment of the middle and lower class by the first and second Estates. Even though the Third Estate represented about 98% of the French population they only held one vote; this often led to the interests of the people being overruled by the nobility and the church. The elaborate spending done by King Louis XVI and his wife, Marie Antoinette, and their support to the American revolutionaries led to France’s financial crisis. Because of this the price of bread, a…

the Jacobins, who advocated and practiced methods of partisan repression and bloodshed in the propagation of the principles of democracy and equality” (oxforddictionaries.com). It was in this context, during the period of violence known as The Reign of Terror, that a new term emerged from Robespierre’s a speech on the trial of Louis XVI in late 1792. The king, “enemy of the people”, he argued must be judged as a foreign enemy who conspired against…