White Terror

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White Terror may refer to:

  • First White Terror (1794–1795), a movement against the French Revolution
  • Second White Terror (1815), a movement against the French Revolution
  • White Terror (Russia), mass violence carried out by opponents of the Soviet Government during the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the Russian Civil War (1918–20)
  • White Terror (Hungary), a two-year period (1919–1921) of repressive violence by counter-revolutionary soldiers
  • White Terror (Spain), atrocities committed by the Nationalist movement during the Spanish Civil War and during Francisco Franco's dictatorship
  • White Terror (mainland China), the period of political repression in China starting in 1927 by the Republic of China government
  • White Terror (Taiwan), the period of political repression in Taiwan starting in the 1940s by the Republic of China government
  • White Terror (Greece), persecution of the EAM-ELAS between the Treaty of Varkiza in February 1945 and the beginning of the Greek Civil War in March 1946
  • White terror, violence of the white troops during and after the Finnish Civil War in 1918
  • The White Terror (film), a 1917 silent German film
  • White terrorism, xenophobic activity or right-wing terrorism by white Americans
  • Kenya: White Terror, a 2002 BBC documentary based on the work of Caroline Elkins

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