White Terror Explained
White Terror may refer to:
History
See also: Anti-communist mass killings.
- First White Terror (1794–1795), a movement against the Jacobins in the French Revolution
- Second White Terror (1815), a movement against the French Revolution
- White Terror (Russia), a period of political repression, arrests and executions carried out by anti-Bolshevik forces during the Russian Civil War (1918–1922) and related conflicts
- White Terror (Bulgaria), the repression of the communist September Uprising in the Kingdom of Bulgaria (1923)
- White Terror (Hungary), a two-year period (1919–1921) of repressive violence by counter-revolutionary soldiers
- White Terror (Spain), mass murders committed by the Nationalist movement during the Spanish Civil War and Francisco Franco's rule
- White Terror (mainland China), the period of political repression in China which was started in 1927 by the Republic of China/Kuomintang government
- White Terror (Taiwan), the period of political repression in Taiwan which was carried out during the years of 1949 to 1987 by the Republic of China/Kuomintang government
- White Terror (Greece), the persecution of the EAM-ELAS between the signing of the Treaty of Varkiza in February 1945 and the beginning of the Greek Civil War in March 1946
- White Terror (Finland), the repression which was committed by the White troops both during and after the Finnish Civil War in 1918
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