Is Revs. currently scaring the hell out of anyone else?

[Kotza]

remember, its how events led to a revolutionary situation

thats all it is, if you know the EFFECTS of everything (and dates figures quotes) then you will be fine.


You will rock it

[lara2707]

are you kidding me??!!?? :crazy2:

9 days to revise this:
FRANCE:
5-11 August 1789 – August Decrees
26 August 1789 – Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
1 October 1789 – Fundamental Principles of Government presented
2 October 1789 – Flanders Regiment arrive in Versailles
5 October – The Women’s March to Versailles
2 November 1789 – Church property confiscated (called biens nationaux) by the nation and sold
12 July 1790 – Civil Constitution of the Clergy
27 November 1790 – The Clerical Oath
14 July 1790 – Festival of the Federation
28 February 1791 – Day of Daggers
21 June 1791 – The royal family is found at Varennes and taken back to Paris
25 June 1791 – The King is suspended
16 July 1791 – Champs de Mars Massacre
13-14 September 1791 – Louis XVI officially accepts the Constitution
9 November 1791 – All émigrés ordered to return to France or be sentenced as a traitor and to death
13-14 September 1791 – Louis XVI officially accepts the Constitution
27 August 1791 – Declaration of Pillnitz
20 April 1792 - France goes to war with Austria (and Prussia)
20 June 1792 – Artisans and poor sections storm the Tuileries (NOT The Storming of the Tuileries)
5 July 1792 – The Assembly declares that ‘la patrie en danger’ (the fatherland is in danger)
25 July 1792 – Duke of Brunswick issues the Brunswick Manifesto
9 August 1792 – Revolutionary/Insurrectionary Commune established, lead by the 48 sections of Paris and to take control of the National Guard and fédéré soldiers
10 August 1792 – On the orders of the Commune, 20,000 sans-culottes along with the National Guard and fédéré soldiers storm the Tuileries
25 August – Seigneurialism finally abolished, lands of émigrés to be sold, divorce law passed
3-7 September 1792 – Prisoners are massacred by the mobs in Paris
21 September 1792 – National Convention meets for first time
22 September 1792 – Year I of French Republic
11 December 1792 – Citizen Louis Capet indicted for ‘a multitude of crimes in the establishment of tyranny’ and having ‘violated the sovereignty of the people’
21 January 1793 – Louis Capet is executed
1 February 1793 – France declares war on Great Britain and the Dutch Republic
24 February 1793 – Convention orders conscription of 300,00 extra men into the army – met with hostility and caused the Vendée Rebellion
23 March 1793 – Dumouriez retreats from Belgium after negotiations with Austrians that they will not be harmed but fails to convince his troops to march to Paris and dissolve the Convention
11 March 1793 – Macheaoul uprising, 500 citizens perished
October 1792 – Committee of General Security established in response to September Massacres
11 March 1793 – Revolutionary Tribunal established, ‘Representative-on-Mission’ sent to the provinces
6 April 1793 – Committee of Public Safety and Committees of Surveillance established
5 September 1793 – ‘Let Terror be the order of the day’
2 June 1793 – Decree passed to arrest twenty-two Girondins
31 May – 2 June 1793 – anti-Girondin riots crowd the streets as they are reinforced by 75,000 from the National Guard and demand a tax on the rich, a maximum, purging of 30 Girondin deputies and the creation of a sans-culottes army to fight traitors… the Convention had no choice
13 July 1793 – Marat is assassinated by Charlotte Corday
By the end of June 1793 – Bordeaux, Lyon, Toulouse, Toulon and Marseilles were rioting against the Convention, supporting the Girondins for an end to violence, sans-culottes and war
26 June 1793 – New Constitution ratified but not proclaimed
10 August 1793 – Festival of Unity and Indivisibility
23 August 1793 – Levée en masse
9 September 1793 – armée revolutionaire established (sans-culottes force)
11 September 1793 – Maximum on grain established
17 September 1793 – Law of Suspects
10 October 1793 – Decree on Revolutionary Government
29 September 1793 – General Maximum passed, prices of goods and services fixed
16 October 1793 – Marie Antoinette guillotined
30 October 1793 – All women’s clubs closed down
4 December 1793 – Law of Frimaire (Constitution of Terror)
26 February and 3 March – Ventôse decrees passed
20 Prairial (June – Festival of Supreme Being
3 May 1794 – Robespierre attacks atheists, calling them immoral and aristocrats
10 June 1794 – Law of Prairial
23 July 1794 – New rates for wages set
24 July 1794 – Robespierre condemns both Committees of Public Safety and General Security
26 July 1794 – Robespierre accuses members of the Committees as being tyrants, but hints to many more
27 July 1794 – Robespierre and his followers are accused as being tyrants during the convention meeting, they are arrested immediately
28 July 1794 – 31 July 1794 (10 Thermidor – 13 Thermidor) – Robespierrists are executed and the all blame is put onto Robespierre
September 1795 – Church and State would co-exist
24 December 1794 – Law of Maximum lifted
1 August (14 Thermidor) 1794 – Law of Prairial removed
24 August (8 Fructidor) 1794 – Insurrectionary Commune of Paris abolished and administration of Paris given to a Committee responsible to the Convention – 48 sections grouped into 12 arrondissements with a Watch Committee in each
12 November (22 Brumaire) 1794– Jacobin Club closed
16 December (26 Frimaire) 1794 – Carrier (leader of the Jacobins) is tried and executed for the massacres during the Terror
21 July 1795 – Hoche’s troops overcome the émigrés at Penthiévre
10 June 1795 – 4,000 émigré troops land on the coast of Brittany
1 April (12 Germinal) 1795 – Sans-culottes breaks into the Convention to demand ‘Bread and Constitution of 1793’ (universal male suffrage)
20 May (1 Prairial) 1795 – Mobs of mainly women and a few battalions of Nation Guard storm the Tuileries where the Convention meet to demand ‘Bread and Constitution of 1793’
22 August 1795 – Constitution of Year III
4-6 October – Attempted coup of Vendémiaire (Royalist)

CHINA:
 
1894-95     Sino-Japanese War                 Yuan Shikai attempts to lead Chinese armies in Korea     
1898    The "Hundred Days"              Reform programs of Kang Youwei -- Kang flees to Japan after forces loyal to Cixi stage coup

Other Chinese revolutionaries in Japan include Sun Yat-sen, who formulates political program of "Three People's Principles"
   
1900*    Boxer Uprising                   
1905              End of Confucian Examination System         Russo-Japanese War -- Japan's victory increases Japanese power in Korea and Manchuria

Abortive revolution in Russia signals rising power of social radicalism
1911    Republican Revolution breaks out in military barracks in Wuchang -- meets little resistance in near-bloodless ouster of Manchu dynasty              Sun Yat-sen named "Provisional President"

Yuan Shi-kai brokers Qing "surrender"
   Japan annexes Korea (1910)
     Republican China (1912-1949)    
1912*    Establishment of Republic of China              Yuan Shikai becomes first President    
1913    Sun Yat-sen establishes the "National People's Party"  (the Kuo-min-tang [KMT], or Guomindang [GMD])    Nationalists win first (and only) fully democratic national election in China -- Yuan Shikai dissolves new parliament              
1914-1918    Reduced influence of Europe in East Asia

Rise of Japanese power in China
                  World War I

 

1915
   Japan issues the "Twenty-One Demands"                   
1916                   Yuan Shikai dies    
1917              Adulation of Woodrow Wilson

Rise of liberal currents among urban intellectuals
        US entry into war on basis of Wilsonian "Self-determination of nations"

Communist Revolution in Russia -- Lenin (1870-1924) comes to power
1917-1927    National government in Beijing in hands of loyalists of northers "Warlord" strongmen    Warlord Decade    Rapid dissemination of Western political, social, and artistic ideas in urban centers    Lu Xun composes "Kong Yiji" and other fiction of social criticism    
1919*    Treaty of Versailles ending World War I signed in France    May 4th Uprising protests Chinese government's capitulation at Versailles    

Initiation of May 4th Movement

Liberal trends in literature & academics
        Mussolini forms Fascist Party in Italy -- becomes Prime Minister in 1922
1921    Chinese Communist Party [CCP] established in Beijing              Mao Zedong a founding member of CCP    
1923    KMT-CCP Alliance established                   
1925                   Death of Sun Yat-sen    
1927*    Northern Expedition

Purge of CCP by KMT
        Culmination of "Second Revolution" (or "Nationalist Revolution")    Chiang Kai-shek consolidates power within KMT    Stalin takes power in USSR (Lenin d. 1924)
1927-1937    The "Nanjing Decade" -- KMT in control; capital in Nanjing         KMT's "New Life" movement combines Confucian and Fascist ideas -- Nationalist Revolution takes sharp right-wing turn    Dominance of the Soong family in KMT government    
1927-1934    CCP in Jiangxi (in southeast) -- Period of "Jiangxi Soviet"    

CCP intitates Land Reform in Jiangxi
             
1929-1939                        Era of woldwide Great Depression
1931    Japanese army stages phony "Mukden Incident" as pretext to invade all Manchuria and establish puppet state of Manchukuo (1932)                   Japanese militarists gain control
1933                        Hitler becomes Chancellor in Germany
1934-1935*    KMT "encirclement campaigns" vs. CCP, leads to The Long March              Mao takes control of CCP at "Zunyi Conference," midway in Long March    
1936-46    CCP in Yan'an (in northwest) -- the "Yan'an Period"    CCP introduces moderate land reform in North    Development of Maoist ideology

"Yan'an Sprit" and leadership of "Eighth Route Army" (later "People's Liberation Army", or PLA)
   CCP leadership in hands of Mao (general leader & ideologue), Zhou Enlai (diplomacy), Zhu De (military)    
1936    Xi'an Incident [Sian Incident]-- Chiang Kai-shek kidnapped by Zhang Xueliang

Chiang's release initiates KMT-CCP United Front against Japan (to 1942)
                  
1937-45*    The War of Resistance Against Japan (World War II in East Asia) begins with Marco Polo Bridge Incident (7/7/37)    KMT government retreats to Chongqing in southwest    Flight of refugees to Chongqing & Yan'an    Joseph Stilwell commands American forces in China aiding KMT

"Dixie Mission" of US forces in Yan'an (1944-45)
   World War II in Europe (1939-45)

US engagement, 1941-1945 (Pearl Harbor 12/7/41)
1946-1949    KMT-CCP Civil War                   Beginning of Cold War
     Communist Period -- Maoist Phase (1949 - 1976)    
1949*    "Liberation" -- KMT forces retreat to Taiwan

Establishment of the People's Republic of China
                  
1950-1953    Korean War                   McCarthy era in US

Death of Stalin (1953)
1952    Five-Anti Campaign                   
1956-1960    Emergence of "Sino-Soviet Split"                   
1956-57    Hundred Flowers Campaign                   Khrushchev in power in USSR -- retreat from Stalinism
1957-58    Anti-Rightist Campaign                   
1958-1959*    Great Leap Forward    Widespread famine kills up to 30 million              
1960-1962         Era of "retrenchment" -- moderates in control              
1962-1965    Socialist Education Campaign    "Downward transfer" program relocates millions of "intellectuals"    "Politics in command" of education -- school admissions based on politics    Dominance of moderates Liu Shaoqi and Deng Xiaoping    Beginning of US engagement in Vietnam
1966-1970*    Cultural Revolution    Red Guards exercise primary power in provices    Campaign against the "Four Olds"    Rise to dominant power of Jiang Qing and PLA chief Lin Biao (purge of moderates)    Election of Richard Nixon (1968) -- Henry Kissinger National Security Advisor / Secretary of State
1970-1976    Latter phase of Cultural Revolution    PLA leading social force         

Jiang Qing leads "Gang of Four"
   Final US defeat in Vietnam (1975)
1971    Ping-pong Diplomacy with US              Lin Biao dies fleeing from botched coup

Foreign policy control under Zhou Enlai
   
1972    Richard Nixon visits China                   
1976*    Arrest of Gang of Four
(Oct. 6)    Suppression of April memorial demonstrations for Zhou Enlai at Tiananmen -- Deng Xiao-ping goes into hiding         Death of Zhou Enlai (1/8)

Death of Mao Zedong (9/9)

Hua Guofeng head of state -- reemergence of Deng Xiaoping

(from vcenotes and marxists.org)


good luck

HAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAAH yeah...that kind of puts it in perspective. But you've prob already revised some of it, and I'm sure you know more than you realise!! Geez, aren't they the two hardest revolutions? That SUCKS!!

[Kotza]

i know france is bad as, they change government every freakin year those fags ... are i gotta get studying!!!!!

[claire92]

After reading your timeline, I can safetly say, thank god for America, sometimes, but in the case of revolutions, deffientely.

[lara2707]

Yeah France is bad, and look at the timelines in the Leading Edge study guide (if you have it) for China! They're ridiculous! Russia is good though

[Kotza]

love russia, doing it now.. simple and straight forward.
French make me angry, they were so stupid.

"Oh shits going down, we better guillotine people."
"Oh crap! More shit is going down as people are now angry that we're killing people! Ehh, we'll just kill some more!"

National Assembly? Sounds like something at school
Constituent Assembly? Nah sounds too american
Legislative Assembly? Too complex
National Convention? No one knows what it means


etc etc

[ben92]

Thanks for the time-line cranberry - I had it all in my notes, but it's been a big refresher for me.

[ZachCharge]

Short answer...5th subject, nope.

[absurdlittlebird]

Wow. Kinda forgot I posted this guys!!
I'm doing France and China too.
Since I finished school my history books have sat in a corner on the floor of my room, completely untouched.
I'm waiting til all my other exams are finished (that'll be by 10.45am this Thursday )
and then I'm just going to live and breathe revs for the next week.
yeah (:
I think my biggest problem with history is simply that I care about it too much.

[ladyy]

i feel like i'm being sent to the guillotine for this exam :|

[Cranberry7]

love russia, doing it now.. simple and straight forward.
French make me angry, they were so stupid.

"Oh shits going down, we better guillotine people."
"Oh crap! More shit is going down as people are now angry that we're killing people! Ehh, we'll just kill some more!"

National Assembly? Sounds like something at school
Constituent Assembly? Nah sounds too american
Legislative Assembly? Too complex
National Convention? No one knows what it means


etc etc

hehe exactly :2funny:

[ladyy]

Imagine if we all SCRATCHED OUR EXAMS... they'd have nothing to mark, they wouldn't be able to rank us.
We'd have defeated the system.

That's revolutionary.

LOVE IT

[billycrimmin]

YES i am freaking out. 

and i totally agree haha.
Stupid France. At least Russia kinda knew what was happening.


 

i feel like i'm being sent to the guillotine for this exam :|

[ladyy]

its getting to me now .... bloody hell.. two exams in one day -_-" wonder how thats gonna go for my life.

[billycrimmin]

which  exams?