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Terrorism by the State MCQ

Warfare is the making of war against an enemy. In the modern era, it usually refers to _____conflicts.

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Correct Answer: Both

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Vigilante State Terrrism is unofficial state terrorism in which state personnel engage in nonsanctioned political violence. It can include the use of death squads.

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Correct Answer: True

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Torture is _____ pressure and degradation.

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Correct Answer: Both

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Tiananmen Square is a central square in_____.

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Correct Answer: Beijing

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State Patronage of Terrosrism is active state participation in and encouragement of _____ behavior. Its basic characteristic is that the state, through its agencies and personnel, actively takes part in repression, violence, and terrorism.

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Correct Answer: Extremist

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State Assistance for Terrorism is tacit state participation in and encouragement of extremist behavior. Its basic characteristic is that the state, through sympathetic proxies and agents, implicitly takes part in _____

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Correct Answer: All of these

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Social Cleansing is the practice of eliminating defined undesirables from society. These “undesirables” can include those who _____

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Correct Answer: All of these

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_____ was the secret police during the regime of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. Notorious for its brutal suppression of dissent.

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Correct Answer: SAVAK

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_____ Scares was a periodic anticommunist security crises in the United States, when national leaders reacted to the perceived threat of communist subversion.

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Correct Answer: Red

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Politically Sympathetic Sponsorshio is a state-sponsored terrorism that does not progress beyond _____support.

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Correct Answer: Both a and b

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Plan Victoria 82 was a government-sponsored campaign in Guatemala during the early _____ that was responsible for thousands of deaths.

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Correct Answer: 1980s

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Phoenix Program is a _____ year campaign conducted during the Vietnam War to disrupt and eliminate the administrative effectiveness of the communist Viet Cong.

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Correct Answer: 3

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People’s Liberation Army is the _____ communist national army.

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Correct Answer: Chinese

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Patrice Lumumba People’s Friendship University is a Soviet-sponsored university in _____ that attracts students from around the world, particularly the developing world.

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Correct Answer: Moscow

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_____ is a term used to describe rightist irregular units and groups that are frequently supported by governments or progovernment interests.

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Correct Answer: Paramilitaries

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Paradigm is a logically developed model or framework that represents a_____.

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Correct Answer: Concept

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Pan Am Flight 103 was an airliner that exploded over Lockerbie, Scotland, on December 21, 1988. In the explosion, 259 people were killed, including all 259 passengers and crew and 11 persons on the ground._____ was implicated in the incident.

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Correct Answer: Libya

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A series of raids in the United States during the administration of U.S. president Woodrow Wilson, targeting _____

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Correct Answer: Both a and b

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State terrorism that is undertaken as a matter of official government policy is known as _____

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Correct Answer: Official State Terrorism

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Northern Island is the northern region on the island of Ireland that has been under the jurisdiction of the United Kingdom since 1921. It consists of six counties of the Irish province of Ulster. The region has historically been a center of sectarian and nationalist violence between _____

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Correct Answer: All of these

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Logistically Suppotive Sponsorship is a _____ -sponsored terrorism in which the state provides a great deal of logistical support to the terrorists but stops short of directly participating in the terrorist incid.

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Correct Answer: State

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Kurds is an ethnonational group in the_____ . Several nationalist movements fought protracted wars on behalf of Kurdish independence.

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Correct Answer: Middle East

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Korean Airlines Flight _____ is an airliner that exploded over Myanmar (Burma) in November 1987, apparently after sabotage by North Korean operatives.

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Correct Answer: 858

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State-sponsored terrorism in which state personnel participate in the terrorist enterprise refers to _____

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Correct Answer: Joint Operations

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Iran Contra Scandal is the term given to an operation in 1985 and 1986, in which American Lieutenant Colonel Oliver North of the National Security Council illegally sent arms to Iran in an effort to win the release of American hostages held in _____

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Correct Answer: Lebanon

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Inkatha Freedom Party is a Zulu-based movement in _____ .

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Correct Answer: South Africa

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Human Rights Watch is an international watchdog organization that monitors human rights issues in_____

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Correct Answer: Around the world

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House Un-American Activities Communities is a congressional committee created in the aftermath of a Red Scare during the _____ to investigate Communist threats to American security.

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Correct Answer: 1930s

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Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution is a period from 1965 to _____ in China during which the Communist Party instigated a mass movement to mobilize the young postrevolution generation. Its purpose was to eliminate “revisionist” tendencies in society and to create a newly indoctrinated revolutionary generation.

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Correct Answer: 1969

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Genocide is the suppression of a targeted demographic group with the goal of repressing or eliminating its cultural or physical distinctiveness. The group is usually a_____group.

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Correct Answer: All of these

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Genocidal State Trrorism is _____ initiated genocide. The state either involves itself directly in the genocidal campaign or deploys proxies to carry out the genocide.

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Correct Answer: State

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______ is one of the Four Olds.

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Correct Answer: All of these

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_____ is a term created by Serb nationalists during the wars following the breakup of Yugoslavia. It described the suppression and removal of non-Serbs from regions claimed for Serb settlement.

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Correct Answer: Ethnic Cleansing

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State-sponsored terrorism limited to a single episode or campaign is known as Episode Specidic Sponsorship.

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Correct Answer: True

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Rightist paramilitaries and groups of people who have committed numerous human rights violations. Many death squads in Latin America and elsewhere have been supported by the _____

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Correct Answer: Both a and b

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Other crazy states have _____ regimes in power that act out with impunity.

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Correct Answer: All of these

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Boland Amendment is the bill passed by Congress in December _____ that forbade the expenditure of U.S. funds to overthrow the Sandinista government.

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Correct Answer: 1982

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Blacklisting is the policy of facilitating political activists from obtaining employment in certain industries.

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Correct Answer: False

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In January 2002, U.S. president George W. Bush identified _____ as the “axis of evil.”

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Correct Answer: All of these

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Autogenocide means Self-genocide. When members of the same _____ group commit genocide against fellow members.

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Correct Answer: Both b and c

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Assassinations are the act of killing a symbolic victim in a sudden and premeditated attack. Many assassinations are _____ motivated.

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Correct Answer: Politically

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Government-supported death squads in South Africa that assassinated members of the African National Congress and their supporters prior to the end of apartheid refer to _____

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Correct Answer: Askaris

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Apartheid is the former policy of racial separation and White supremacy in _____.

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Correct Answer: South Africa

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Anfal Campaign is a genocidal campaign waged by the _____ army in 1988 against its Kurdish population. Mustard gas and nerve agents were used against civilians.

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Correct Answer: Iraqi

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Amnesty International is an international watchdog organization that monitors human rights issues around the world, focusing on the status of _____ prisoners.

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Correct Answer: Political

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