Jallianwala Bagh massacre 1 Jallianwala Bagh massacre Jallianwala Bagh massacre Narrow passage to Jallianwala Bagh Garden through which the shooting was conducted. Location of Amritsar in India Location Coordinates Date Target Attack type Weapon(s) Death(s) Injured Perpetrator(s) Amritsar‚ India 31°37′14″N 74°52′49″E April 13‚ 1919 5:30 pm (UTC+5:30) Hindu‚ Muslim and Sikh religious and political gathering Shooting‚ mass murder‚ massacre Rifles 379-1500 1100-1500 British Indian Army
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such as the French‚ in World War I‚ stacking the Maginot Line while the Germans marched around it‚ and in World War II doing the exact same thing. Other mistakes include incidents on domestic soil in which protests turn violent such as the Boston Massacre in 1770 and the Kent State Shootings in 1970. Other than each happening on Mondays and occurring almost two hundred years apart‚ the two draw deeper comparisons to one another which caused widespread protest leaving marks in American history. Upon
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Sand creek massacre- Date November 29‚ 1864 Location Colorado Territory Present-day Kiowa County‚ Colorado Result United States Army massacres Native Americans. Belligerents United States Cheyenne Arapaho Commanders and leaders United States John M. Chivington Black Kettle Strength 700 [1] 60–200 Casualties and losses 24 killed‚ 52 wounded[2] 70–163 killed[2] *the aftermath-The Sand Creek Massacre resulted in a heavy loss of life‚ mostly among Cheyenne and Arapaho women and
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History Research Paper 1-3 The Battle at Wounded Knee The Massacre at Wounded Knee The Massacre at Wounded Knee was a terrible battle in American History. This massacre was between the Native Americans and the US government. Back then; the US government hated Native Americans. They would treat Native Americans horribly by killing them‚ stealing their land and much more. One early and freezing morning on December 29th‚ 1890‚ an elderly chief
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The natives lay on the cold‚ damp earth‚ taking in their final breaths‚ before their hearts ceased beating‚ and came their demise. The Wounded Knee Massacre was one of the biggest and most violent confrontations between the Native Americans and the American people and government. It claimed as many as 300 or more of the 350 Indian lives in Wounded Knee Creek‚ South Dakota‚ and half of those killed were women and children. It was the final major clash between the Native Americans and the U.S. military
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vicious monster that nobody will forget. He took his regrets and disappoints from his childhood and turned them into a reason to be a serial killer. He inspired the making of several films such as the Silence of Lambs‚ Psycho‚ and Texas Chainsaw Massacre. Throughout his childhood‚ murders‚ and his numerous court hearings he became one of the most wanted men in American. Ed Gein was born on August 27‚1906. He was born into a small farming community of Plainfield‚ Wisconsin. His family owned an 160-acre
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on all throughout Vietnam so it was an example of continuity. The only person who seems to know that this is wrong is a helicopter pilot named Hugh Thompson. He orders the American troops to cease their fire or he will shoot them. Pictures of the massacre lead the U.S. Army to do an investigation which charges over twenty men of wrongdoing. William Calley is charged with premeditated murder and is sentenced to life in prison. But because of the public outcry of the country this is overturned by President
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How did the Tiananmen Square massacre affect China and its people? The Tiananmen Square massacre or the June Fourth Incident was a series of protests and demonstrations in China. These student-led demonstrations reflected the anxieties that young people had about the country’s future‚ regarding the issues of rapid economic and social change. These protestors would do things like going on hunger strikes‚ sit-in or occupy public spaces. They did all of this so they could achieve their goals of “A Communist
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After the fact‚ Nicholas had the audacity to deny his horrendous actions in the massacre. In fact‚ he tried to lionize his activities by having called it a fair battle. Evidence proved otherwise‚ and he was actually a part of the massacre of woman‚ children‚ and old men. In spite of the fact that there was proof to clarify this event was a massacre of the Cheyenne people‚ it wasn’t recognized as severe as other genocides like it. James began to list the numerous
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Ronald Haeberle Ronald Haeberle was an Army photographer that was assigned to C Company when the troops entered the hamlet of My Lai in the March of 1968. His role in the massacre as a combat photographer was to take pictures of the expected battle between American soldiers and Viet Cong in My Lai. The pictures he took had a huge impact in across the world when they were released to the public‚ and all of them were innocent My Lai men‚ women‚ and children cowering at gunpoint‚ or in piles of dead
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