MODERN STUDIES Flashcards
What is terrorism
Terrorism is the use of violence language or physically to create political changes.
What do terrorists want
Terrorists want to change the way the goverment or people behave.
What are the 3 terrorist attacks
Charleston Church Shootings
Manchester Attack
Paris Attack
What happened at the Paris Attack (Brief Description)
Their was a football match and these shooter came in 5 different locations and started using terrorising strategies so that it would leave the cops searching all over the place and so that they could kill more people in 2015
What happened at the Charleston shooting
**A man called Dylann Roof hated Black- Americans and stated ‘they were taking over America’ and he wanted to bring back race- wars. He attacked a Black- American church and so he waited for a 1 hour and shot 9 Black- Americans and was gonna kill himself but ran out of bullets so he just fled the city but the police caught him and is still on death sentence in 2015.
What happened at Manchester Attack
It was at an Ariana Grande concert on 2017 and the attacker Salman Abedi during the concert he went to the train station and when the concert had ended and people had started to go to the train station it was a huge rush in the hallways and so Salman made a home-made bomb and set it off killing himself and 22 others.
What is ISIS
ISIS stands for Islamic State Iraq and Syria. Their aim is to get all Muslims to join them and to go against people that don’t support them. Their a bad group that use terrorist strategies like killing people for people to not go against them. Examples are the Manchester, Paris and Charleston Attacks.
What is MI5
MI5 stands for Military Intelligence. It’s goal is to stop terrorism and for people to be safe. They can’t give away their identity because then the terrorist will know who they are. They can’t even give away their jobs to their family because then word would spread fast to the terrorists. It was set up in 1909 and the name of the chief is called ‘K’.
Ways of terrorism
- Bombings
- Hijacking
- Mass Shootings
- Letter Bombs
Security
- Eye scanner
- Fingerprint scanner
- Body scanner
- Metal detector