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Terrorism
Chapter 9
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Political Studies
Undergraduate 4
03/25/2013

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genocide
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efforts to reduce in size or facilitate the control of or to destroy ethnic groups
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Ku Klux Klan
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a white supremacist group that emerged after the civil war and again in 1915
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vigilante terrorism
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individuals or groups seek to defend the status quo or return to that of an earlier period by using terrorist tactics on a population without legitimate authority to do so
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right wing extremism
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seek to retain or to reestablish an earlier status quo by the use of terrorist acts. Mainly fundamental faith groups like CIM
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left wing terrorism
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seek to rebel against or radically change the political system through the use of terrorist tactics
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transnational terrorism
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terrorism that involves two or more countries
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Johan Most
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an anarchist who immigrated from Germany to the United States in 1882 after serving jail time in London for praising the assassination of the Russian Czar. First US national to provide philosophical rational for terrorism
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earth liberation front
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a violent environmental activist group believed to have splintered off Earth First! Destruction of equipment of corporations I.E. property damage
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aryan nations
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white supremacist group from 1950s mixture of theology and racism. Jesus was an aryan not a Jew.
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christian identity movement
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teaches that Aryans are gods chosen people that jews are offspring of satan and minorities are subhuman. Believes i British Israelism
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sovereign citizen movement
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refuses the authority of the federal government and believes in anarchy with common law
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lone-wolf terrorists
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individuals who share an ideological or philosophical identification with an extremist group but do not necessarily communicate with the group about acts they want to commit
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animal liberation front
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more of a group or movement without overt leaders. all channel network
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