Oct. 4, 2004

Aim: Did the Reign of Terror go too far to preserve the French Revolution?

First Question: The U.S. rounded up Japanese-Americans on the West Coast of the U.S. and put them in detention camps during World War II.  What does this experience have in common with France during the “Terror”?

Question: How is 21^st century “terror” different than the “terror” of the French Revolution?

Question: Why were the workers of France and small shop-keepers dissatisfied with the Constitutional phase (1789-1791) of the French Revolution?

Question: How did Louis XVI lose the support of most of the French people?

Question: Why did Austria and Prussia invade France in 1792?

Question: When is it believed the second phase or radical phase of the French began?

Question: What other nations joined against republican France?

Question: Why was the Committee of Public Safety formed?

Question: Who were the leaders of the Committee of Public Safety?

Question: Why did Maximillian Robespierre institute a “Reign of Terror” in France between September, 1793 and July, 1794?

Question: How did the Committee of Public Safety mobilize France for war?

Question:  How did the “Reign of Terror” come to an end?

Question: What type of government followed the radical government of the “terror”?