Deck 12: The American Case: Terrorism in the United States

Question 1

The Ku Klux Klan ______.

A) is an international racist organization
B) was created to promote racial solidarity among Europeans and white Americans
C) has no counterpart among international right-wing movements
D) both "is an international racist organization" and "was created to promote racial solidarity among Europeans and white Americans"

Answer 1

C

Question 2

Leaderless resistance is ______.

A) the formation of phantom cells to wage clandestine resistance against the government
B) an anarchist organizational model
C) the formation of protest movements directed against the U.S. government
D) none of these

Answer 2

A

Question 3

The Order and Aryan Republican Army are examples of ______.

A) Christian civil rights movements
B) racist terrorist groups
C) intellectual trends on the fringe right wing
D) none of these

Answer 3

B

Question 4

Modern right-wing conspiracy theories have included which of the following?

A) communist invasion scenarios
B) New World Order conspiracies
C) "truther" and "birther" theories
D) all of these

Question 5

Which of the following statements is most accurate concerning hate crimes?

A) All hate crimes are acts of terrorism.
B) Not all hate crimes are acts of terrorism, and not all acts of terrorism are hate crimes.
C) All acts of terrorism are hate crimes.
D) All hate crimes are acts of terrorism, and all acts of terrorism are hate crimes.

Question 6

Which of the following trends tends to characterize the American left?

A) labor activism
B) racial exclusion
C) religious intolerance
D) none of these

Question 7

International terrorism in the United States has historically been motivated by which of the following?

A) anti-Castro movements
B) Jewish groups opposing the former Soviet Union's emigration policy
C) Canadian separatist movements
D) both "anti-Castro movements" and "Jewish groups opposing the former Soviet Union's emigration policy"

Question 8

What occurred during the "long, hot summers" of the 1960s?

A) severe drought conditions in the American South
B) intensive student activism
C) a series of disturbances in African American urban communities
D) none of these

Question 9

The membership of the Weatherman group mostly consisted of ______.

A) young, African American, educated members from urban areas
B) seasoned, older former communists and anarchists
C) young, White, educated members of the middle class
D) largely uneducated street toughs

Question 10

The Weather Underground Organization was formed ______.

A) to counteract the violence of left-wing terrorist organizations
B) when members of the Weatherman group went "underground" to engage in revolutionary violence
C) as an umbrella political party for the radical left
D) none of these

Question 11

Targets of the ALF and ELF include which of the following?

A) banks and other symbols of "capitalist exploitation"
B) wealthy members of the "ruling class"
C) laboratories, facilities where animals are kept, vehicles, and construction
D) both "banks and other symbols of 'capitalist exploitation'" and "wealthy members of the 'ruling class'"

Question 12

Which of the following legislation was passed in the immediate aftermath of the September 11, 2001, homeland attacks?

A) the USA FREEDOM Act
B) the USA PATRIOT Act
C) the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act
D) all of these

Question 13

The Symbionese Liberation Army was a(n) ______.

A) African American nationalist organization
B) Puerto Rican nationalist organization
C) Patriot movement militia
D) left-wing terrorist group

Question 14

Domestic disturbances during the 1960s era included which of the following?

A) civil rights marches in the American South
B) urban riots
C) student activism on college campuses
D) all of these

Question 15

In the United States, left-wing terrorist violence has usually originated from which of the following motivations?

A) ideological beliefs
B) ethnonationalist tendencies
C) racial intolerance
D) both "ideological beliefs" and "ethnonationalist tendencies"

Question 16

Plausible terrorist threat scenarios against the homeland include ______.

A) strikes by international terrorists
B) attacks by homegrown ideological extremists
C) both of these
D) "strikes by international terrorists" but not "attacks by homegrown ideological extremists"

Question 17

Assata Shakur and William Morales were leaders of which organizations?

A) Black Liberation Army and FALN
B) Weathermen and Weather Underground Organization
C) Symbionese Liberation Army and New World Liberation Front
D) May 19 Communist Organization and United Freedom Front

Question 18

Christian Identity, Creativity, and Asatru are examples of ______.

A) Christian civil rights movements
B) racist mystical movements
C) intellectual trends on the fringe right wing
D) none of these

Question 19

Which of the following tendencies are often found on the far and fringe right wing?

A) antigovernment sentiment
B) racial supremacist sentiment
C) conspiracy theories
D) all of these

Question 20

The modern homeland security environment unfolded very quickly with the implementation of which of the following initiatives?

A) a bombing campaign against Syria
B) formal declaration of war against Al-Qa'ida
C) deportations of Muslim immigrants
D) passage of the USA PATRIOT Act

Question 21

In your opinion, how extensive have "sleeper" terrorist cells been in the United States? Explain your answer.

Question 22

The Phineas Priesthood represents an evangelical Christian movement seeking to promote conservative political agendas.

Question 23

American neo-Nazis have the same political foundation as European fascists.

Question 24

What have been the attributes of nationalist terrorism in the United States?

Question 25

The Oklahoma City bombing represents the worst example of international terrorism in U.S. history.

Question 26

The Jewish Defense League was a civil rights group promoting inclusion and tolerance.

Question 27

Briefly discuss the pattern and attributes of neo-Nazi terrorism.

Question 28

How pronounced has the "spillover effect" been in the United States?

Question 29

The "long hot summer" symbolizes racial tensions in the United States during the 1960s.

Question 30

The extreme American left grew out of a uniquely American political environment.

Question 31

Discuss how religion and mysticism are used by the extreme right wing in the United States.

Question 32

In what ways did organizations such as the Weathermen represent examples of vanguard theory?

Question 33

Discuss the implications of the militia phenomenon in the United States.

Question 34

The Ku Klux Klan has passed through five eras of development.

Question 35

The September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks heralded the beginning of a new era of terrorism.

Question 36

The extreme American right is similar in comparison to the extreme European right in its adoption of religion as a foundation for its activities.

Question 37

Discuss how lynching represented communal terrorism in the United States.

Question 38

Discuss the implications of leaderless resistance, survivalism, and being "off the grid" in the United States.

Question 39

Briefly discuss the pattern and attributes of Ku Klux Klan terrorism.

Question 40

Environmental terrorism involves destroying forests, crops, and so on.

Question 41

Describe possible threat scenarios from single-issue extremists in the United States. How persistent are movements such as the radical environmentalists?

Question 42

In your opinion, does a viable threat exist in the United States of political violence from domestic sympathizers of Al-Qa'ida and other jihadist movements? Explain your answer.

Question 43

Compare and contrast the Patriot movement with the religious and racial supremacist right.

Question 44

Discuss the potential for terrorist violence in the United States from domestic cults and extremist adherents of Christianity. What is the nature of the threat? How serious is it? Explain your answer.

Question 45

In your opinion, why were extremist elements of the New Left able to construct a fairly viable underground movement? Why did this underground not involve itself in the same scale of terrorist violence that emerged at the same time among leftists in Germany and Italy? Explain your answer.

Question 46

In your opinion, why has the extremist right in the United States never formed a viable terrorist underground despite pronouncements from some adherents that they are prepared to do so? Explain your answer and give examples.

Question 47

Discuss the evolution of the Patriot movement in the United States. Why did it decline after a peak during the 1990s? Why has the movement become reinvigorated? Describe the potential for terrorist violence from the Patriot movement.

Question 48

Discuss the effect of conspiracy theories on perpetuating far- and fringe-right-wing movements. Why do conspiracy theories persist?

Question 49

Discuss the evolution of the neo-Nazi movement in the United States. Why has it persisted? Why do American variants of the movement adopt religious mysticism as part of its ideology, unlike European neo-Nazis? Describe the potential for terrorist violence from the neo-Nazi right.

Question 50

Compare and contrast the cases of Richard Baumhammers and Timothy McVeigh. Discuss how their cases exemplify the threat of domestic terrorism in the United States. In your opinion, does the scale of violence committed by them make either of them "more" or "less" of a terrorist than the other? Explain your answer.

Question 51

Explain the reasons for the period of nationalist terrorism in the United States from the 1960s to the 1980s. In your opinion, what is the future potential for nationalist terrorism in the United States?