Why Do People Fight So Important In The French Revolution

Throughout history, mankind has always fought for their goals and dreams. And out of all goals, the most important ones still being acquired: liberty and equality. However, in order to acquire them blood must be spelt. Liberty and equality can only be acquired by blood, as mankind can’t ever come to peace with agreements and diplomacy. Humans tend to always use of violence in order to solve problems and acquire what they want. In the French Revolution, the third state fought and killed so they could get equal rights, and that led to many deaths and even the execution of King Louis XVI himself. They looted and killed so they could have their equality and liberty, even if they could have solved this with conversation they chose to fight. Also, …show more content…
The assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Austria-Hungary’s heir was one of them. On June 28, 1914 a Serbian nationalist from a terrorist group called Black Hand assassinated the Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Austria-Hungary’s heir to the throne. The assassination set off a devastating chain of events in Europe. Austria-Hungary’s political alliance (Triple Alliance) with Germany and Serbia’s ethnic ties to Russia meant that war was about to start. Fulfilling its military alliance with Russia, France entered into the storm once Germany declared war on Russia. The assassination of the Archduke caused World War I to breakout when in reality this could have all been avoided if Austria-Hungary and Serbia had had better communication and could agree on a accord and no conflict would have happened. But as always, there was no discussion, Serbie straight away declared war on Austria-Hungary and caused World War I. Another action was Germany’s Schlieffen Plan, Germany planned to attack France through neutral Belgium as a mean to achieve quick victory. However this action invoked a treaty that Britain had with Belgium’s neutrality and Great Britain entered the war against Germany. Another commotion that caused the situation to worsen was the entrance of the US in World War I, caused by Germany. When the German U-boat sank the British liner Lusitania on 7 …show more content…
The portuguese colonies suffered a lot in their fight for independence, being many times tortured and slaved by the Portuguese. Angola, for instance, was desperate for independence. Different from other countries Portugal didn’t grant independence for their colonies after World War II, they kept them and explored them. On 3 January 1961 Angolan peasants in the region of Baixa de Cassanje, Malanje, boycotted the Cotonang Company's cotton fields where they worked, demanding better working conditions and higher wages. Cotonang, a company owned by Portuguese, British and German investors used native Africans to produce an annual cotton crop for export abroad. The uprising, later to become known as the Baixa de Cassanje revolt, was led by two previously unknown Angolans, António Mariano and Kulu-Xingu. During the protests, African workers burned their identification cards and attacked Portuguese traders. The Portuguese Air Force responded to the rebellion by bombing twenty villages in the area, allegedly using napalm in an attack that resulted in some 400 indigenous Angolan deaths. The portuguese killed 400 people so they could stop them from revolt instead of giving them the liberty they deserve. But the people in Angola did not give up and on March 15, 1961, there was insurgent attacks