9/11
On September 11, 2001, terrorists hijacked four of these to carry out their attacks.
What are airplanes?
Most terrorist groups use this feeling to try and force people or governments to change.
What is fear?
This is the general term for using computers and the internet to attack another country.
What is cyber warfare?
“Proliferation” is just a fancy word for the __ of nuclear weapons to more countries.
What is spread?
The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty is a treaty which is another word for a formal __ between countries.
What is an agreement?
This was the name of the terrorist group responsible for the 9/11 attacks.
What is al-Qaeda?
Terrorist groups often use the “social” tool to spread their ideas and recruit new members today.
What is social media?
These people use their computer skills to break into secure systems.
Who are hackers?
These are the only two cities in history to ever be hit by nuclear bombs during a war.
What are Hiroshima and Nagasaki?
The main goal of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty is to prevent the spread of these.
What are nuclear weapons?
This massive building in Arlington, Virginia, was one of the targets hit during the attacks.
What is the Pentagon?
This group, which rose to power in Iraq and Syria, tried to create its own country.
What is ISIS?
This is a type of harmful software designed to damagee or disable computer.
What is a virus?
This was the long period of tension between the US and the Soviet Union that led to a nuclear arms race.
What was the Cold War?
Under the treaty, countries that don’t have nukes promise never to get them, while countries that don have them promise to eventually do this.
What is disarmament?
This US government department was created after 9/11 to help keep the country safe from future attacks.
What is the Department of Homeland Security?
This term describes a person who becomes convinced to join a radical group while living in their own home country.
What is radicalization?
Cyber attackers often target “critical infrastructure”, such as the grid that provides this to a city.
What is electricity?
This term refers to the group of countries that officially have nuclear weapons.
What are nuclear powers?
This international group, part of the UN, sends inspectors to make sure countries are following the NPT.
What is the International Atomic Energy Agency?
Who was the leader of al-Qaeda who planned the 9/11 attacks?
Who was Osama bin Laden?
These are groups that are not part of any official government but still fight in wars.
What are non-state actors?
What is the act of stealing secret government information using digital methods?
What is cyber espionage?
This is the process of making fuel for a nuclear bomb, which many countries try to stop others from making it.
This country is one of the few that never signed the NPT and has developed its own nuclear weapons.
Who is India?