The Reign of Terror: Was It Justified? The Reign of Terror started in 1789 and was a time when supporters of the French Revolution ran wild and started killing non-supporters or counterrevolutionaries. The French held a ceremony if you will‚ in Paris for the execution of King Louis XVI on January 21‚ 1793. This was because Louis was having financial‚ and harvest issues. In June of 1789 King Louis called the Estates Meeting to discuss taxes and money problems. Then some men disliked what Louis
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the government would force the people to become virtuous republicans through a massive reeducation program. And thus began the Reign of Terror which had the purpose to eliminate opposition and to cow citizens into submission. For Robespierre‚ the Terror was necessary and inevitable to maintain the Republic by revealing the enemy within France. However‚ the Reign of Terror proved to be a distortion of revolutionary ideals because instead of helping the country to unify and obtain greatness‚ in essence
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liberty developed into the Reign of Terror. The Reign of Terror was a period in the French revolution characterised by brutal repression and executions which took place from 1793 to 1794. It was a time of bloodshed and murder‚ aimed to destroy counter revolutionaries and conspirators‚ and attack foreign enemies‚ which resulted in the deaths of around 20‚000 to 40‚000 people‚ and was viewed by Robespierre as an inevitable period to stabilise France. The Reign of Terror was caused by the evolution
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The reign of terror was a period of violence in which occurred from 1793- 1794 after the strong onset of the French Revolution. It was a time of fierceness and anger‚ resulting in the deaths of thousands of people living in France at that period of time. The terror followed the trial and execution of King Louis XVI in 1793 and was incited by the conflict between the Girondins and Jacobins. Soon after‚ King Louis’ wife‚ Marie Antoinette‚ was executed in the guillotine- the new form of constitutionalist
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with the violence‚ fear‚ and dictatorship of Robespierre. The first event that shows this theme is the “Reign of Terror.” This event relates to the theme of fear and violence since Robespierre’s goal was to inflict fear on others in hopes of having them listen to him. The Reign of Terror was the time period in which Maximilien Robespierre assumed control after the execution of King Louis. The terror was created to kill off people who opposed the Revolution and to also stop a counter revolution. In
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Terror in Stalin’s Russia. Terror played a very important and large role in Stalin’s Russia. Stalin used many different methods of terror during his reign such as a period of unprecedented cruelty called The Purges. Stalin was extremely suspicious of his opposition and used terror to remove any threat to his power and to blame his failures on people who weren’t responsible for them. Stalin used the purges as a way of removing any threat to his power and to enforce total control. The event that
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thousand to forty thousand died; it is still unknown exactly how many people were lost through the blood drenching event of the Reign of Terror.[Footnote] Throughout the French revolution‚ specifically the eleven month‚ 1793-1794 Reign of Terror‚ revolutionary leaders‚ such as Maximilien Robespierre believed in enforcing fear to resolve the instability of France. “Terror is nothing else than swift‚ severe‚ indomitable justice; it flows‚ then‚ from virtue”-Maximilien Robespierre.[Footnote] This period
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The Reign of Terror -Not Justified 1793 to 1794 is when the Reign of Terror began and end. The Reign of Terror was about 2 years from when Louis XVI was beheaded and around the time 20‚000 people were guillotined. 35‚000 people were killed by officers and officials. The Reign of Terror was not justified.The claim stated can be supported by these 3 reasons: they were threatened in wrong ways for the wrong things ‚ the methods used were not necessary‚ and the reasoning they gave did not match the
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words of Liberty‚ Equality‚ and Fraternity. It was on these tenets that the revolution began and ironically only four years later a man of great strength would take control of France and begin the Reign of Terror‚ this man was Maximilien Robespierre. Robespierre was the mastermind of the Reign of Terror. He was the leader of the Committee of Public Safety‚ the executive committee of the National Convention‚ and the most powerful man in France (“History Wiz”). To avert the possibility of a counter-revolution
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why the Reign of Terror was unjustified. During the period 1789 to 1794‚ somewhere between 20‚000 and 40‚000 innocent people were killed‚ and the homes and property of many more citizens were destroyed. While this was happening‚ Robespierre‚ the leader of the Committee of Public Safety‚ failed to address the needs of the French people. The French people’s rights were violated‚ and they were no better off because they were just as poor as they had been before the Revolution. During The Reign of Terror
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