Modern+Terrorism

TERRORISM [|Terrorist Crocdoc]



Definition of terrorism: When a person or a group a people that choose to cause harm to civilians or the government and to put people in fear.
 * Terrorism is interpreted differently in different countries.
 * An act to promote a criminal agenda.
 * intimidation
 * Goal to make a political or religious point.
 * attempt to impact life, liberty and property.
 * State sponsored (by government)
 * To seriously disrupt an electronic system.
 * The U.N. has no specific definition of Terrorism
 * One mans terrorist is another mans freedom fighter.

The Choices program:

[|My Modern World History Time line]

Opener: Explain the types of terrorism used in the events you identified in your timeline. In my time line there was the use of bombs, hostage taking, chemical warfare and airplane hijacking. Suicide Bombing How did these impact ordinary citizens? For the chemical warfare, there would be citizens that would be scared to go on the train because people had let out sarine gas inside of it before. People would be scared to be near big, tall buildings because there could be a bomb near. People would be scared to go out because they could have been taken as a hostage.

Why did it get world attention? They got world attention because for the Sarine gas, no one had used it on public transportation before. Also that people are shocked that these kinds of things would happen around the world.

[|Revolutionary or Terrorist Crocodoc]

[|Case Study]

[|Various Definitions of Terrorism]

[|Position Paper Draft]

[|Final Position Paper]

[|Slides for Position Paper]