Threats to Democracy

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Kylie jenner

Szerző: Riley Houdini

Jane Eyre

Szerző: Dalal Abed Rabo

holidays

Szerző: Rosario Gutiérrez

British North America

Szerző: Neo Andrei Gagarin

Threats to Democracy

Religious Extremists

Varied greatly in their objectives

Often based on misinterpreted holy text

Found in most cultures and religions

Islam

ISIS

Taliban

Al-Qaeda

Christianity

Jim Jones

David Koresh

Ku Klux Klan

Sought to enact their version of religion

With better technology came more opportunities to spread ideals and terrorize

These ideals and terrorism were often devastating to groups/countries and/or individuals

1993 World Trade Center bombing

Mogadishu bombings

911

Technological advances

Made the act of killing someone less personal

Most used technology for good

Several used it for evil

Calvalry

Chemical and automatic weapons

Air strikes

Strike from a distance

More efficient training

Anyone with enough funding could fight well

Nuclear weapons

The ultimate deterrent

Indescribably dangerous in the wrong hands

ICBMs helped cement superpowers standings

Allowed nukes to become global

Warfare, and therefore threats, changed drastically during the 20th century

Allowed new wars to be fought in new ways

Helped make guerrilla fighting more feasible

An unstable world

Decolonization

Indonesia

Hong Kong

Malaysia

Southern Rhodesia (Zimbabwe)

Tunisia

Morocco

Vietnam

India

Long overdue, many republics became independent

Power vacuums often ensued

Separate superpowers often tried to influence fledgling nations

Aided the rise in extremists

Terrorists, foreign and domestic, cropped up from unstable situations

Often misguided by religious beliefs

Smaller countries fell under the sphere of larger countries

China

USSR/Russia

Communist

Cuba

Though in close proximity to US, Cuba formed an alliance with the USSR

Cuban missile crisis

United States

Capitalist

Communism

Asian/Middle Eastern communism

South Yemen

North Vietnam

Mongolia

Cambodia

Afghanistan

African communism

Somalia

Mozambique

Ethiopia

Congo-Brazzaville

Benin

Angola

Several countries subscribed to communism in some form

Many had short stints with communism

The Soviets were the only genuine communist threat to democracy

Demanded cult-like dedication

Party over everything

Propaganda

Hidden truths

Diametrically opposed to capitalism

Not the same as socialism, but similar in some ways

Championed by USSR in direct opposition to US

The Soviets were not the only communists, but were the most impactful

Fought proxy wars with the West, largely for ideological and economical domination