Rebellion

The first rebellion happened when the districts of Panem rose up against the Capitol's rule. This time period is known as The Dark Days. The rebellion was orchestrated by District 13. Near the end of the war, District 13 trained nuclear missiles on the Capitol, hoping to destroy the Capitol even if the result was mutually assured destruction. However, District 13 set up a secret deal with the Capitol--they would withdraw their forces from the war and present the illusion that Capitol bombers equipped with chemical weapons had destroyed District 13. 13 withdrew and rebuilt their district underground. The Capitol's bombers then destroyed the district on the surface. Without 13's aid, the remaining rebel forces were put down by the Capitol. After the war, the Treaty of Treason was put into effect, stating that each district had to put forth one male and female each year between the ages of 12 and 18, and that they were to fight to the death until only one remained.

The leader of the second rebellion was President Alma Coin, but the rebellion itself began to gain momentum during the 74th Hunger Games when District 12 tributes Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark threatened to commit suicide. This caused the Gamemaker Seneca Crane to let them both win, and which showed that the citizens could overcome the power of the Capitol. The common symbol of defiance in the new group of rebels is Katniss's mockingjay symbol, a bird that the Capitol never intended to create. They created a bird called a Jabberjay which would fly to the districts during the first rebellion and spy on insurrectionist meetings. They would then fly back to the Capitol and report back with direct information from District 13. This is the second rebellion in Panem's history, the first being about 75 years prior to the beginning of the novels, before the Hunger Games began.

The first known rebellious activity took place in District 8 after the Victory Tour for the 74th Hunger Games concluded. After the train left District 8, a violent riot erupted. Rioters seized control of several strategic positions throughout the district, all the while engaging in an active fight with large contingents of Peacekeepers. Although the rebels initially had the upper hand due to the surprise assault, they were unorganized and ill-equipped to engage in sustained fighting between themselves and the better trained and equipped Peacekeeper force. Capitol hovercraft gave air support to the Peacekeepers, bombing rebel positions as the Peacekeepers advanced. Eventually, the Peacekeepers quelled the rebellion and set the entire district under martial law. For a week, no one was permitted outside and electricity and food supply was cut. After this, the martial law was lifted and life was allowed to return to normal. However, a Capitol bomb destroyed the textile factory in the district, after receiving information that the rebellion had been plotted from there.

As the 75th Hunger Games drew nearer, civil unrest in the districts grew. When those Games drew near a close, a rebel bomber force composed of aircraft from District 13 launched an air raid on the arena the Games were being held in, rescuing several of  the tributes sent in, including Katniss Everdeen, Finnick Odair, and Beetee Lantier. The raid was launched after Katniss destroyed the force field enclosing the arena. Capitol aircraft captured Peeta Mellark, Johanna Mason, and Enobaria. Shortly after the force field was destroyed, Capitol aircraft launched a massive bombing raid on District 12 (Katniss's district), burning it to the ground. Only about 800 of District 12's original 8,000 survived the raid. Gale Hawthorne was credited with helping most of the refugees escape into the woods around District 12. After the attack, hovercraft from District 13 appeared and began evacuating the refugees back to 13, where they were granted citizenchip and given places to live that far outstripped their poverty-stricken conditions in 12.

Mellark and Everdeen were both used to conduct propos, or propoganda spots, for the sid they had been taken by. There was a stark contrast in the videos, though--while Mellark's called for a general ceasefire, Everdeen was told to rally the rebels to fight. When Everdeen was taken from the arena, many rebel divisions were struggling to maintain footholds in several districts. However, after one particular propo, in which Everdeen stood in front of the wreckage of a field hospital in District 8 after a Capitol bombing, in which she announced "if we burn, you burn with us," the rebels rallied enough to solidify their forces and launch an offensive into Capitol-occupied territory.

After the fighting in 8, one Capitol propo featuring Mellark accidentally leaked information regarding a surprise attack on 13. Several long-range missiles were launched at 13, but due to the warning, casualties were reduced to a minimum, if any at all. A retribution propo featuring Everdeen was aired by 13, but Everdeen broke down in the middle of it after seeing Mellark beaten for divulging the information about the coming missile attack. Rebel forces launched an offensive into the Capitol soon after, aimed at freeing the captured tributes. The attack did not secure a foothold inside the Capitol, but it wasn't meant to--the attack was solely meant to liberate the prisoners and get them out of harm's way.

General ground fighting and bomber strikes were the hallmarks of much of the war. Soon, every district had sided with the rebels, save for District 2, which was the supplier of most of Panem's military force and also served as their primary base of operations. The primary command center for the Capitol's military forces was a mountain known to the rebels as "the Nut" after Plutarch Heavensbee's comment on the district; "it's a tough nut to crack." After several failed attempts at capturing the mountain complex, Hawthorne, who had previously taken part in both the fighting in 8 and the liberation of the tributes from the Capitol, put forth the idea of causing avalanches with rebel bombers and suffocating the Capitol forces inside. Several rebel bombers began dropping their payloads on the Nut's upper elevations, triggering avalanches that buried most of the exits from the mountain and crippling the base inside. Several trains carrying survivors made it out of the train tunnel, as the rebels had decided to leave that one path open. Fighting began in the central square of District 2, and a rebel offensive secured the square and the surrouding area. Everdeen gave a speech amidst the fighting that turned District 2's forces to the rebel side, but was later wounded from a gunshot to the spleen.

The destruction of the Nut and 2's defection crippled the Capitol's military forces, forcing the Capitol's military to withdraw to the city itself. Rebel forces then invaded the city, pushing through in intense [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/urban_warfare/ urban warfare. ] The destruction of the Nut meant the loss of the Capitol's air force, leaving the defense of the city to the ground forces. The rebel advance was severely hindered by strategically placed traps, called pods, that were positioned all around the city. These pods ranged from automated gun systems to tracker jackers. Midway through the battle for the city, rebel forces set four central routes directly to the heart of the Capitol--the A, B, C, and D lines. After intense block-by-block fighting, the rebels reached the City Circle, the center of the Capitol itself. As a final defensive measure, President Coriolanus Snow had had a group of children form a ring around the presidential mansion. A hovercraft marked with a Capitol insignia dropped parachutes similar to those that Hunger Games tributes received in the arenas, but these turned out to be bombs that killed most of the children in the ring. The Capitol fell that day. It was later revealed that the aircraft was actually owned by District 13, under orders from Coin to drop the bombs on the children to end the war by shattering what remained of the Capitol's image. In what was supposed to be Snow's execution, Everdeen, who was to be the executioner, instead shot President Alma Coin in retailiation for killing her sister, Primrose. Snow was later found dead, and a trial was to be set for Everdeen for killing Panem's acting president. Everdeen was cleared of her charges and allowed to return to the under-reconstruction District 12, where she later married Mellark and had two children.

Of the 59 known members of the second rebellion, only 30 survived it.

The Capitol

 * Castor (deceased)
 * Cinna (deceased)
 * Cressida
 * Effie Trinket
 * Flavius
 * Fulvia Cardew
 * Messalla (deceased)
 * Octavia
 * Plutarch Heavensbee
 * Portia (deceased)
 * Tigris
 * Venia

District 2

 * Lyme (deceased)
 * Enobaria

District 3

 * Beetee
 * Wiress (deceased)

District 4

 * Annie Cresta
 * Finnick Odair (deceased)
 * Mags (deceased)

District 6

 * Female Morphling (deceased)
 * Male Morphling (deceased)

District 7

 * Blight (deceased)
 * Johanna Mason

District 8

 * Bonnie (missing, presumed deceased)
 * Cecelia (deceased)
 * Commander Paylor
 * Eddy (presumed deceased)
 * Eddy's Sister (presumed deceased)
 * Twill (missing, presumed deceased)
 * Woof (deceased)

District 10

 * Dalton (later moved to District 13)

District 11

 * Chaff (deceased)
 * Seeder (deceased)

District 12

 * Delly Cartwright
 * Gale Hawthorne
 * Greasy Sae
 * Greasy Sae's granddaughter
 * Haymitch Abernathy
 * Hazelle Hawthorne
 * Katniss Everdeen
 * Leevy
 * Mrs. Everdeen
 * Peeta Mellark
 * Posy Hawthorne
 * Primrose Everdeen (deceased)
 * Rory Hawthorne
 * Thom
 * Vick Hawthorne

District 13

 * Boggs (deceased)
 * Dr. Aurelius
 * Jackson (deceased)
 * Homes (deceased)
 * Leeg 1 (deceased)
 * Leeg 2 (deceased)
 * Mitchell (deceased)
 * President Alma Coin (deceased)
 * York

Avox

 * Darius (deceased)
 * Lavinia (deceased)
 * Pollux

Rebellion