The local forces attacked the Presidential Palace, the National Radio Station, the U.S. embassy and other principal targets. When the Communist’s high command realized that the military objectives were not being met, they halted further attacks. Sporadic fighting continued in Saigon until March 8. Some sections of the city were left badly damaged by the combat and U.S. retaliatory air and artillery strikes. The Chinese district of Cholon suffered with hundreds of civilians killed in the American counter attacks.” (First Battle) “On March 16, 1968, U.S. Army forces conducted a mass murder of hundreds of unarmed citizens in South Vietnam.
These anti-movements were the start of the political party hatred, in which it became clear that China was to be turned into a one party state. These movements show that even when trying to change politically, violence was used. In the early 1950s, particular CCP severity was evident in Shanghai and Guangzhou; cities in which had been notorious for their underworld gangs and triads in the years of the Nationalist rule. The CCP turned on these in a violent bloodletting, after using their local knowledge to consolidate its hold on the city. Half of the 130,000 ‘bandits and criminals’ that were rounded up were executed.
His army also consisted of millions of poor, starving peasants with bad equipment, poor supplies of rifles and ammunition. In 1916, two million soldiers were killed or seriously wounded, and one third of a million taken prisoners. The Russian population was horrified. They considered the Tsar irresponsible for taking over the army and held him responsible for everything; as a result instability was growing at an alarming rate for the Tsar who had once held himself so assuredly in power. Nicholas II took this course of action to assure himself he still had complete control of Russia.
[4] Peter's frequent travels left Russia unmanned, often for months at a time. His absence often spawned revolts and rebellions among the people. [5] When Peter returned he showed no mercy in putting down the rebellions and asserting his absolute power over the country. This is when Peter's true cruelty was shown, his brutality in sentencing those who rebelled brought out a different man, a man who loved to see people suffer, a man we would see more often as his reign progressed. People who expressed negative thoughts about Peter's decisions were often executed before they had a chance to gain followers and rebel against the Tsar.
The end result of those protests was gunfire by police leaving four dead and nine others wounded. Of course not all protests end like this but this is an exception that is a memorable and tragic moment in American history. The reason that the Kent state students were protesting was in response to the Cambodian campaign that was presented by president Nixon the day before. The Cambodian campaign was basically another invasion
Throughout his twelve year reign of China he was much despised by his people and his court officials. He phenomenally remains as one of history’s cruellest and most hated emperors, having enslaved Qin’s citizens to provide labour on two of the world’s oldest manmade infrastructure—the Great Wall of China & the Terracotta Warriors—and slaughtering thousands for defying or opposing his ways of ruling, most notably the event that is called “To Burn the Books and Bury the Scholars Alive” (焚书坑儒). The main reason to the first emperor’s vicious way of ruling that led to his bad reputation was his rebuffing of Confucian teachings which made the feudal society ideology. Confucian’s idea of being a good monarch was to be a kind, understanding ruler in order to encourage the people to do the right thing. Instead, First Emperor believed that relying on rules and executing criminals is the ultimate solution to force people to listen and obey him.
While the protest lacked an identical cause or leadership, most of the protesters were generally against the economic policies and authoritarian of the ruling of the Chinese Communist Party and expressing calls for democratic reforms in the structure of government. The PRC government then used betrayal as an excuse and in Beijing, and used military force to suppress the demonstrators. The resulting military crack down caused a number of innocent citizens dead or injured. The report on number of deaths and injured ranged from two hundred – three hundred (PRC government) to two thousand – three thousand (Chinese Red Cross). Following the violence, the government carried out mass arrests of demonstrators and suppressed their supporters and other protests around China.
Many of the workers became angry and started protesting against the government. Many of the sayings at the protest were "Down with the 10% rise in the norms!"(Shives). It just shows how outraged they were about being treated poorly. The riots actually became so violent that they had to bring in tanks and open fire on the citizens that became too outraged. Many people started struggling in the East.
Trying to find a communist spy was extremely difficult in the Hollywood career; anyone who identified as communist sympathizers lost their jobs and reputations were ruined. Several had their passports taken, while others were thrown jail for not giving names of other communists. All trials were publicized, and often careers were destroyed based on untrue accusations. All artists brought to trial were blacklisted and for most, this meant the end of promising careers. However, after many years the intensity simmered down and many were able to return to work.
Secretaries, businessmen, mothers and fathers. Thousands of lives were suddenly ended by despicable acts of terror. Most Americans remember where they were when the series of malicious events occurring, and the feeling of shock they had when it was first heard on the news. On that day most citizens were scared for their lives and the lives of loved ones involved in the attack. It wasn’t until three or four years later people started to ask questions about who was behind the events.