Name ______________________________ Date__________________ Period_______ Ch 15: The Challenge of Terrorism 1. Why had Russia, China and India all become new and unexpected allies of the United States? 2. All Muslim countries have sizeable _____________________ ________________ that hate America. 3. What are many people worried that these fundamentalism movements may overthrow ___________________ ________________. 4. What countries have Islamist already taken over in the Middle East ________________, _______________, and _______________________. 5. The real struggle over the future of the Muslim countries is whether they become modern and moderate or __________________ and ____________________. 6. Stability will come when Muslim countries discover how to combine ________________ with modernity. 7. None of the 9/11 terrorist were ________________, ____________________ or _________________. Fifteen of the nineteen were from ____________________ ________________. 8. Many Muslims look at the west as the force that brought them _____________________ and keeps them ________________. 9. When European civilizations were modernized, Islamic civilizations stalled (didn’t modernize). Why did Islam get stuck?
· The Mongols:
· The British: 11. A Muslim country that has tasted Western imperialism and has many unemployed and a corrupt government will likely develop a Muslim fundamentalist movement. Unemployed or underemployed young men are often drawn to ________________ ________________.
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