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Monster Essays - Terrorism
Terrorism
JUNE 1914: a young man in Sarajevo steps up to a carriage and fires his pistol.
The Archduke Ferdinand dies. Within weeks, the first world war has begun. The
1940s: the French resistance kill occupying troops when and how they can. June
1944: at Oradour-sur-Glane, in central France, German SS troops take revenge,
massacring 642 villagers. August 1945: the United States Air Force drops the
world's first nuclear weapons. Some 190,000 Japanese die, nearly all of them
civilians. Within days the second world war has ended.
Which of these four events was an act of terrorism? Which achieved anything?
Which, if any, will history judge as justified? And whose h....
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