Introduction
Which date was the most destructive in the history of terrorism?
11 September, 2001
The Anarchist Analysis contained 4 central points name one
Any of these: 1) society has huge reservoirs of latent ambivalence and hostility; 2) social conventions were devised to muffle and diffuse antagonisms by generating guilt and providing channels for settling grievances and securing personal amenities; 3) one can demonstrate that these conventions are simply historical creations; acts now perceived as immoral are those that our children will hail as noble efforts to liberate humanity; 4) terror is the quickest and most effective means to destroy those social conventions. Perpetrators free themselves from the paralyzing grip of guilt to become different kinds of people. Terror forces governments to respond in ways that undermine the principles governments claim to respect and defend.
This Treaty is seen as the starting point of the second wave of terrorism
The Treaty of Versailles
Where did the Third Wave of Terrorism originate at? And what decade?
The Middle East Region (specifically in the Israel-Palestine conflict in the 60s)
The American invasion of Iraq was an example of this common feature in terrorist history.
International overreaction by government
Who was the first US President to call for a crusade to exterminate terrorism everywhere?
President Theodore Roosevelt
Who did the New York Times call the “Greatest Liberator in History” in 1861?
Czar Alexander II
This was the new name used by terrorist groups when describing themselves during the second wave and onwards as they wanted to legitimize their struggle
Freedom fighters
The Vietnam War ended in 1975. What side won, and what countries helped that side of Vietnam win the war?
North Vietnam and its allies were China and the Soviet Union.
Four events involving Muslims which highlighted the importance of religion and the weakness of secular forces took place this year: The Iranian Revolution, the signing of the Camp David Treaty, a new Islamic century began, and the Soviets invading Afghanistan.
1979
Which country did modern terror begin in?
Russia
What was the name given to the terrorist activity during the 1890s?
“Golden Age of Assassination”
These groups became primary targets in the tactics adopted by the second wave of terrorists
The police and military
A terrorist attack was committed by the PLO at what location, what sporting event took place in 1974, and the motive?
Munich Summer Olympics 1972, the motive is due to western allied support for Israel in the Palestine conflict.
In 1995, this group released nerve gas on a Tokyo subway, leaving 12 dead, and 40 seriously injured, and igniting fears of future attacks using indiscriminate chemical and biological weapons.
Aum Shinrikyo
______(BLANK) is a cycle of activity in a given time period with expansion and contraction phases.
A Wave
In the Balkans who did Russian Anarchists help train?
Armenians and Polish
This name was given to the second wave of terrorism that mainly affected the empires of the world
Anti-Colonial/Anti-colonialism
The Irish Republican faction group was a terrorist organization that saw uprisings all over Ireland. Why did the terrorist attacks happen across Ireland, and what was their motive?
Wanted to end the British rule in Northern Ireland and wanted to facilitate an Irish unification all over Ireland with a socialist republic.
This former member of the PLO (Palestinean Liberation Organization) was instrumental in bringing numerous Arab volunteers, including Osama Bin Laden, to Afghanistan and setting the groundwork for the group that would become al Qaeda.
Abdallah Azzam
What is the overriding aim of every wave?
Revolution
What was the first great overaction in the history of terrorism?
The suspicion that Serbia helped Archduke Franz Ferdinand Assassin.
This country helped accelerate the efforts of rebels after World War two through state sponsoring and support to various rebels and militias
The soviet union
What motivated the Iranian Revolution to happen, why was the Shah government overthrown, and why do Iranians still advocate anti-western society today?
Religious motives, Iranians were discontented with the Shah's rule, which resulted in the government being overthrown, and the West never accepted the change from the Shah to the Mollahs in 1979, which resulted in heavy sanctions against Iran by the west as of today.
Impressed by its success in Lebanon, this group in Sri Lanka utilized ‘suicide bombing’ from 1983 to 2000, employing more ‘suicide bombers’ than all Islamic groups combined, often using women.
Tamil Tigers