Terrorism Timeline

Present
1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s Day

Ideological Increasing security

Symbionese Radical In 1995 the first major use of The attack on
terrorism measures to control
Liberation Army terrorism chemical weapons by terrorists the World
surfaced. violence
gave the US a pushed the was by Aum Shinrikyo. In 1996 Trade Center
Terrorists might increase daring
taste of West out of cyber-terrorists threatened to in New York
don't know types of terrorism.
ideological Lebanon due destroy London computer City on
their own Vulnerable targets
terrorism. to a truck systems. Government-sponsored 9/11/2001.
goals, tended created by
Takeover of US bomb that terrorism in Demonstrated
to be young technological
embassy wiped killed 241 US name of "higher principles" was one of the first
and fed up advances are likely to
out Western Marines. most intensive in three decades acts of super-
with become more
influence in Iran. terrorism.
capitalism attractive to terrorists
Terrorist attacks have
become more
common in today's
society.