Global Terrorism

The Irish Republican Army For more than a century before World War I, the majority of the people of Ireland had been seeking independence from the United Kingdom. In Northern Ireland, however, there was a fiercely loyalist majority, which was opposed to any break with Britain. The problem was directly connected with religion. The original Irish adhered to Roman Catholicism, a faith that was not legalized in Britain until 1829, after three centuries of the Churches of England and Scotland. The predominant Seconds after the fatal pistol attack upon the Austrian Archduke Ferdinand and his wife on June 28, 1914, Gavrilo Princip is hustled away by guards and bystanders. This incident in Sarajevo, intended only as a blow struck for the independence of Bosnian Serbs, led to World War I.

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The Rise of Terrorism