All threats of revolution were taken seriously. The authorities hastily assembled an extensive spy network. The most famous threat of a revolution was in August 1819 when a large crowd assembled at St Peter’s Fields in central Manchester to hear a pro-reform speech from Henry ‘Orator’ Hunt. Fearing uncontainable disorder, and perhaps even revolution, the Manchester authorities over-reacted and sent in troops to disperse the crowd by force. Eleven people were killed and the radicals were given a huge propaganda boost by referring to the event as ‘Peterloo’, in a grim analogy with the Duke of Wellington's famous victory over Napoleon at Waterloo four years earlier.
Jewish homes, hospitals, and schools were ransacked, as the attackers demolished buildings with sledgehammers. Over 1,000 synagogues were burned and over 7,000 Jewish businesses destroyed or damaged. The
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
At the campus of Kent State University on May 4, 1970 protest against the war had erupted. The 300 students that had opposed the war so intensely that they had caused riot like damage in a nearby town only to return to campus to burn down the R.O.T.C. building. The local governor had ordered 750 National Guardsmen to the campus to “Eradicate the problem” also saying that the protesters were the “worst type of people we harbor in America” (Davidson−Gienapp−Heyrman−Lytle−Stoff, 2005, p. 2). After the protestors had refused to disperse after being ordered to do so the guardsmen had fired into the crowd killing four students and wounding nine others.
Apart from the colonist being harassed with taxes, their trade with all parts of the world except Britain was another reason why the colonists wrote the Declaration of Independence. The illegal imposition of rules over their trade and production, commonly known as the Navigation Acts, which have been pressed on them for over a century and made worse by the Sugar Act and Townshend Acts was controlled once the Declaration of Independence was written and signed. Furthermore, the colonists were being deprived in many cases. The Boston Massacre was when a mob of 50 colonists gathered to protest against the officials. As fists and clubs began flying a soldier dropped dead, this forced the soldiers to fire, killing five civilians and wounding six.
At this time there were 9 million Jews in Europe. The Nazis killed 6 million of them. That is 2/3 of the Jewish population gone. They were people just like you and me. And they were senselessly murdered just because they were different.
10 Diocletian is most known for The Persecution of the Christians. On the twenty-third of February, A.D. 303 he commanded an army to raid a nearby Christian church, he seized all holy books and burned them to ashes. 11 He then began to call for the destruction of all sacred books and Christian churches. All the Christians were then apprehended and imprisoned and Galerius secretly ordered the imperial palace to be set on fire, that the Christians might be charged as the incendiaries, and a credible pretence given for carrying on the persecution with the greater brutalities. An overall sacrifice was commenced, which caused numerous deaths.
The Israelis responded similarly to their previous reprisals, striking down on the Palestinians with force, killing over a thousand protesters. Images of the Intifada, with Israeli tanks attacking unarmed youths, raised international attention towards the Palestinian cause. The Israeli government was harshly criticized for their actions during the Intifada, raising concerns around the world surrounding their policies and the Palestinian
The Kent State Massacre, May 4 1970, saw a peaceful protest by students turn violent when the National Guard was called in to disperse the protest. The National Guard shot and killed 4 students. They also shot bystanders – it led to a greater number of
Walter Staples HIST-1301-171 February 14, 2012 Paul Revere A simple definition of the word propaganda is to manipulate the public opinion in a biased or misleading way, usually to promote a political cause or point of view. According to Paul Revere’s painting of the Boston Massacre, the actual event in 1770 was a slaughter, with Americans having no ability to defend themselves. The British appear to have simply fired on the crowd without provocation and in an orderly fashion. They are portrayed to be tyrannical monsters that would kill without reason. In reports from the trial of the eight soldiers however, we learn that the massacre was chaos.