Deck 9: Domestic Terrorism in the United States

Question 1

Which of the following movements advocated for political independence, economic self-sufficiency, and a cultural reawakening?

A) Off the Grid
B) New World Order
C) Revolutionary Youth
D) Black Power

Answer 1

D

Question 2

The New Left arose in the ______.

A) 1940s
B) 1950s
C) 1960s
D) 1970s

Answer 2

C

Question 3

Which of the following was best associated with the New Left?

A) counterculture
B) reactionary
C) direct action
D) leaderless resistance

Answer 3

A

Question 4

Mainstream American political and social institutions are referred to as ______.

A) nativism
B) the New World Order
C) national alliance
D) the establishment

Question 5

Which of the following advocated for bombings, armed resistance, and assassinations?

A) Ku Klux Klan
B) Weather Bureau
C) Republic of New Africa
D) Mud People

Question 6

The Animal Liberation Front and the Earth Liberation Front are examples of which of the following?

A) Environmental movement
B) Economic movement
C) Education movement
D) Energy movement

Question 7

What occurred during 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 8

______ is premised on a rejection of the white race's reliance on Christianity.

A) Creativity
B) Asatru
C) Christian identity
D) National Alliance

Question 9

The modern American left is characterized by movements that grew out of the political environment in the 1960s.

Question 10

Civil disobedience was applied via a strategy known as collective nonviolence.

Question 11

Neofascist movements in Europe are secular.

Question 12

The KKK was founded in the aftermath of World War I.

Question 13

The Ku Klux Klan is a purely American phenomenon.

Question 14

The Black Codes were a product of the third era of the Klan.

Question 15

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

Question 16

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

Question 17

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

Question 18

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

Question 19

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

Question 20

Discuss how lynching represented communal terrorism in the United States.

Question 21

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

Question 22

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 23

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 24

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 25

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 persisted?

Question 26

Compare and contrast the Patriot movement with the religious and racial supremacist right. Describe the potential for terrorist violence from the Patriot movement.

Question 27

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

Question 28

Explain 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?

Question 29

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