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These questions should be answered with information from chapters 5, 6, 7 and 8 of White's book on Terrorism.

1.  What was the original historical meaning of the word terrorism and how has it changed over time?

2.  Which political philosophy is associated with the European roots of terrorism?

3.  What was Leon Trotsky's view of the role of terrorism in socialist revolution?

4.  What social divisions account for the emergence of terrorism in Ireland?
 

5.  What mistake does White believe the British government made in dealing with Irish terrorism in the 1970s?
 

6.  Which groups in the Middle East have practiced terrorism or have been accused of practicing terrorism?
 
 

7.  What was the role of terrorism in the emergence of Israel as a nation state?

8.  What happened in the "Six Day War" and the " Yom Kippur War"?
 

9.  What kinds of terrorism have been practiced in the Middle East in the 1980s?
 

10.  What is the role of Islam in the Iranian Revolution?

11.  What is the difference between Shiite and Sunni Islam?
 

12.  What was Frantz Fanon's argument about the role of violence in nationalist revolution?

13.  What was Carlos Marighela's theory of the role of terrorism?

14.  What was the organizational structure of the Tupamaros and other groups following the Latin American "urban guerilla" model?

15.  How did the Latin American governments suppress the Tupamaros and other groups following Marighela's philosophy?