January Week 12-16

Monday-12

- Looked and went over the Europe map 

- Filled our maps out

Tuesday-13

-Started going over the Europe map, look at the first 3 sections 

-  Key terms 

Hypothermia- Dying or being injured because of too cold 

Terrorism- Attack for political, religious, ideological reasons 

Boko Haram- Terrorist group in Nigeria. 

Lone Wolf- Attack in small groups or by themselves. 

ISIS/ISIL/IS- Islamic State- control the Levant area- Islamic state of Syria- Islamic state of Iraq and Levant.  Terrorist group 

al Qaeda- World-wide terrorist network founded by Osama Bin Laden 

Department of Defense

CIA

FBI

DHS

NSA

Missile Defense Agency

Economic System

Political System

Socialism

Capitalism

Mixed Economy

Communism-practice and theory

Monarchy-absolute and constitutional

Democracy-direct and representative

Dictatorship

Anarchy

Oligarchy

- Current Events

- 3D food printer 

- al Qaeda claims responsibility for attack in Paris,  Make seem they are stronger than really are. 

- What does ISIS want?  To restore the caliphate.  Territory- they want to control all the area in the middle east.   Followers- the want to attract followers to get bigger.  Money- They want to make money.  Revenge- want to get revenge on a lot of other groups especially the U.S.

- Troops in Iraq are not to fight, just to train the other soldiers 

- How ISIS makes money- Extortion- Basically stealing money, forcing.  Drugs, kidnapping, and money-laundering.  Electricity, selling electricity to the Syrian government and people in the country.  Oil, selling oil back to the Syrian government.  Donors, has been funded from wealthy unknown funders.  Spoils of conquest they steal from places they take over. 

- al Qaeda vs. ISIS- Competition to one up each other.  They are competing with each other for the spot light. 

- ISIS has boy execute 2 men accused for being Russian spies.  ISIS is trying to show they are turning children into them. 

Other notes:

- Prophet Muhammad was the leader of Islam. 

- Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi: Current leader of ISIS 

- AQAP- al queda in the Arabian Peninsula 

- Raqqa-, Syria Is like the base of ISIS 

- ISIS is recruiting kind of just from all over the world 

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