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Massacres
YGK These Massacres
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A series of murders of Huguenots by Catholic mobs in Paris in 1572, occurring days after the wedding of Margaret of Valois to Henry IV | St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre |
| The mother of King Charles IX who allegedly ordered the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre | Catherine de’ Medici |
| The signal to begin the St. Bartholomew's Day attacks, likely given by the ringing of bells at this Parisian church | Saint-Germain l’Auxerrois |
| The 1770 incident where British troops in Boston under Captain Preston opened fire on civilians, killing five people including Crispus Attucks | The Boston Massacre |
| The former slave killed in the Boston Massacre | Crispus Attucks |
| The Boston silversmith whose notable engraving of the massacre roused anti-British sentiment | Paul Revere |
| The 1819 protest in Manchester, England against the Corn Laws where British cavalry charged the crowd, killing 14 people | The Peterloo Massacre |
| The Prime Minister whose government passed the Six Acts to curtail radical gatherings after the Peterloo Massacre | Robert Jenkinson (2nd Earl of Liverpool) |
| The 1890 killing of 200–300 Lakota Sioux on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, started after a deaf Lakota refused to surrender his rifle | The Wounded Knee Massacre |
| The 7th U.S. Cavalry commander involved in the Wounded Knee Massacre | James Forsyth |
| The Miniconjou chief killed at Wounded Knee | Spotted Elk |
| Author of the 1970 history of Native Americans in the West titled Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee | Dee Brown |
| The 1905 event considered the start of the Russian Revolution of 1905, where the Imperial Guard fired on protestors marching to the Winter Palace | Bloody Sunday |
| The Russian Orthodox priest who led protestors to petition Tsar Nicholas II for better working conditions on Bloody Sunday | Father Georgy Gapon |
| The 1929 murder of seven members of the North Side Gang in Chicago, ordered by Al Capone | The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre |
| The only survivor of the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre | A dog named Highball |
| The 1937 period of mass murder committed by the Japanese army in the capital of the Republic of China early in the Second Sino–Japanese War | The Rape of Nanking |
| The American-born Chinese author who wrote a bestselling account of the Rape of Nanking in 1997 | Iris Chang |
| The 1968 mass murder of at least 300 unarmed Vietnamese civilians by U.S. troops in Quang Nai Province | The My Lai Massacre |
| The only man convicted for his role in the My Lai Massacre, who said he was "just following orders" from Ernest Medina | William Calley |
| The helicopter pilot who attempted to radio for help and later rescued a four-year-old girl during the My Lai Massacre | Hugh Thompson Jr. |
| The 1970 anti-war protest at an Ohio university where the National Guard fired into the crowd, killing four students | The Kent State Shootings |
| The photograph of Mary Ann Vecchio kneeling over the body of Jeffrey Miller, which won the Pulitzer Prize | John Filo's photograph |
| The protest song written shortly after the Kent State Shootings | “Ohio” by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young |
| The 1989 student-led pro-democracy protests in Beijing that ended with the People's Liberation Army clearing the square | The Tiananmen Square Protests |
| The famous photo from the Tiananmen Square protests showing an anonymous protester standing in front of a row of tanks | “Tank Man” |
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