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Authoritarian Government
Government
Reign of Terror
The existence of authoritarian ideology is not without justification. It is believed that authoritarianism exists “as an indictment of democracy, the alleged incompetence of democracy and the average man (qtd in Mayer 2001, p. 148)”. Samuel Huntington and Clement Moore in distinguishing between democracy and authoritarianism: ‘Democracy exists where the principal leaders of a political…
Chapter 21 Ap Euro Outline
Euro
Reign of Terror
The Age of Napoleon I. From Robespierre to Bonaparte a. Relatively secure after the military victories of 1793-1794, the National Convention repudiated the Terror and struck at the leading terrorists in a turnabout known as the Thermidorian reaction. During the four unsteady years of the Directory regime, French armies helped bring revolution to other parts…
The Terror- The End Justifies The Means
Reign of Terror
Terrorism
It was 1789 and the citizens of France were fed up. They had had excessively many old ages of covering with a monarchial authorities, one ruled entirely by a male monarch. Where had this gotten them? No where good they were insolvents and the greatest per centum of the citizens was considered in the lower…
Reign of Terror: Eliminate Opposition and to Cow Citizens into Submission
Reign of Terror
Terrorism
After the fall of monarchy, the French revolutionaries faced large popular insurrections and division among the people. In the early days of the revolution, many people still sided with the monarchy which brought on accusations of treason against the new republic. A new stable government was needed to end the chaos, and the Committee of…