History & Context
The deadliest decade for terrorism in Europe.
What is the 1970s?
The years the Baader-Meinhof group operated.
What is 1970-1998?
The main organization in Europe responsible for Counterterrorism.
Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe
The "wing" with deadlier attacks in the 1970s and 1980s.
What is right wing?
From 1985-1986, this group carried out a series of 6 groups.
What is the Committee for Solidarity With Arab and Middle Eastern Political Prisoners (CSPPA)?
The countries with significant contemporary left wing activity.
What is Italy, Spain, Greece?
The autonomous region of Spain that borders France and is home to its own language and culture.
What is the Basque Country?
this makes counterterrorism in Europe especially difficult.
Variety of Perpetrators
This law enforcement agency said, ‘attacks specifically classified as separatist terrorism accounted for the largest proportion, followed by jihadist attacks’.
What is Europol?
One of the EU's former names for jihadist terrorism.
What is Islamist terrorism? What is religiously inspired terrorism?
A terrorist group's name in their native language.
What is Brigate Rosse? What is Narodnaya Volya? What is Euskadi Ta Askatasuna? What is Óglaigh na hÉireann? What is Baader-Meinhof Gruppe? What is Die Richte?
The name of the Irish ethnonationalist group that helped train ETA.
The event that prompted European nations to look at homegrown threats instead of external threats.
2005 London Attack
The principal human rights treaty underpinning the European human rights system.
What is the European Convention on Human Rights?
Contributing factors to presence of Al Qaeda in the Balkans.
What are wars? What is political instability?
They use Europe as a hub for fundraising.
What is the PKK?
The name of the Marxist-Leninist terrorist organization that was founded in West Germany.
What is the Red Army Faction? What is the Baader-Meinhof Gruppe?
Main effort at the heart of the EU Counterterrorism strategy.
Deradicalization
One of five countries in which 72% of all terrorist attacks took place in.
What is Iraq? What is Nigeria? What is Afghanistan? What is Pakistan? What is Syria?
The correct ranking from largest to smallest number of terrorist attacks in 2019 by ideology, according to the EU.
What is ethnonationalist-separatist, left wing, jihadist, right wing?
The 5 concentrated areas of terrorist activity.
What are the Balkans, Chechnya, Ukraine, Northern Ireland, Basque Country?
The name of the dictator whose policies sparked the Basque nationalist movement.
Who is Francisco Franco?
The organization responsible for establishing the European Counter Terrorism Center (ECTC)
Europol
The four words that frame the EU Counter-Terrorism Strategy 2005.
What is prevent, protect, pursue, respond?
The name of the dictator whose policies sparked the Basque nationalist movement.