Please explain the French Revolution!?

So I have read the whole chapter in my textbook on the French Revolution, and I really don't understand it! Can someone please give a good chronological summary on the main events that happened during the revolution, and explain what happened, why they happened, what were the results? My textbook gives an outline as following, so you have an idea of what to go off of:

Chapter 19

A Revolution in Politics: The Era of the French Revolution and Napoleon

I. The Beginnings of the Revolutionary Era: The American Revolution

a. Forming a New Nation

b. The Impact of the American Revolution on Europe

II. Background to the French Revolution

a. Social Structure of the Old Regime

i. The First Estate

ii. The Second Estate

iii. The Third Estate

b. Other Problems Facing the French Monarchy

i. Ideas of the Philosophes

ii. Failure to Make Reforms

iii. Financial Crisis

III. The French Revolution Focus Questions: What were the main events of the French Revolution between 1789 and 1799? What role did each of the following play in the French Revolution: lawyers, peasants, women, the clergy, the Jacobins, the sans-culottes, the French revolutionary army, and the Committee of Public Safety?

a. From Estates-General to a National Assembly

i. The National Assembly

ii. Intervention of the Common People

iii. Peasant Rebellions and the Great Fear

b. Destruction of the Old Regime

i. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen

ii. The Women’s March to Versailles

iii. The Catholic Church

iv. A New Constitution

v. Opposition From Abroad

c. The Radical Revolution

i. Domestic Crises

ii. Foreign Crises

iii. A Nation in Arms

iv. The Committee of Public Safety and the Reign of Terror

v. The “Republic of Virtue”

vi. The Role of Women

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vii. Dechristianization and a New Calendar

viii. Equality and Slavery

ix. The Decline of the Committee of Public Safety

d. Reaction and the Directory

IV. The Age of Napoleon Focus Question: Which aspects of the French Revolution did Napoleon observe, and which did he destroy?

a. The Rise of Napoleon

i. Napoleon’s Military Career

ii. Napoleon in Control

b. The Domestic Policies of Emperor Napoleon

i. Napoleon and the Catholic Church

ii. A New Code of Laws

iii. The French Bureaucracy

iv. Napoleon’s Growing Despotism

c. Napoleon’s Empire and the European Response

i. Napoleon’s Grand Empire

ii. The Problem of Great Britain and Nationalism

1. Great Britain

2. Nationalism

iii. The Fall of Napoleon

The textbook is so long and complicated I can't figure out what happened.... anything helps... thank you!