Terrorism and National Security, 1960s and the Cold War

Terrorism and National Security

1960s and the Cold War

• Cold War raging against USSR

• Billions of dollars spent on Department of Defense, weapons research, CIA coups, intelligence, and international projection

• Puppet nations created in Middle East, all with varying degrees of loyalty to either US or USSR

• Rising ethnic tensions in Cold War puppet states lead to nationalism movements against USSR and the West
• Basis for terrorist organizations grew in Cold War
• CIA funneled money into groups in the Middle East to fight Soviet Union in interest of national security and anti-communism
• United States fights Vietnam War to slow spread of communism and protect image and national security
• Terror brews in United States as youth are discontented with American imperialism and controlling attitude internationally
• Youth movements such as Students for a Democratic Society split into the Weathermen Underground conducting terror operations against US government
• Black Panther Party violently erupts in support of black liberation

• Vietnam War ends 1973, falls in 1975

• Underground domestic terror cells disband with war's end, terror in US ceases
• Al-Qaeda forms from CIA-trained Middle Easterners, 1988
• US remains strong in world, Soviet Union collapses 1989-1991

• US enjoys hegemony, protecting world as "World Policeman"

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