A New Kind of War

In what ways was World War I different from previous wars we have studied?

Assassinations Across Time

Assassination: Definition - The targeting and killing of a person of a high profile position. The difference between assassination and any other killing is that the assassin has an ideological or political motivation

Assassination is a common theme in global history and throughout our study we have looked at several of these and will continue to study a great deal more. For the purpose of this question we want to take a look at the circumstances that surround all assassinations.

Example: Abraham Lincoln

• Nationality - United States


• Position - President of the United States
  

Name and describe the assassin - John Wilkes Booth - A Southern/Confederate flamboyant actor.

Social, political and or economic sitution surrounding the event in that country -

• What was happening before the assassination (Cause) - The North had recently defeated the Confederate South in the Civil War.
• What happened after the assassination (Effect) - Andrew Johnson took over as president and abandoned many of Lincolns plans for reconstruction. The rights of former African slaves were not taken seriously and former Confederates were treated with leniency.

Choose one of the following assassinations: Choose the link and then do the same thing done above for Abraham Lincoln.

Julius Caesar

Archduke Ferdinand

Benazir Bhutto