Terror

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Terror is an overwhelming sense of imminent danger. It is shock, horror and/or fear so intense that it elicits an acute stress reaction and a combat, faint or escape response in place of rational thinking. In relationship to terrorism, the provocateur aims to elicit terror for the purpose of using the three responses of combat, faint or escape to his advantage.

The concept of terror is used in the following contexts:

• an acute type of fear
• Horror and terror in literature
• Terrorism, a policy or act intended to intimidate or cause terror, usually for the furtherance of ideological goals
• State-sponsored terrorism, terrorism sponsored by nation-states
• State terrorism, acts of terrorism conducted by governments
• Political repression, persecution of individuals or groups for political reasons, often a policy of some states towards their own citizens

Contents 1 Popular culture 1.1 Comics 1.2 Film 1.3 Literature 1.4 Music 2 History 3 Naval ships 4 Other uses 5 See also

[edit] Popular culture

[edit] Comics

• Terror (New England Comics), a supervillain from The Tick comic books, cartoon, and live-action TV series
• Terror Inc., a 1992 Marvel Comics series
• Terror (Marvel Comics), the fictional Marvel Comics character of the 1940s

[edit] Film

• Terror (film), a 1977 Danish film
• The Terror (1963 film), a 1963 horror film directed by Roger Corman
• Terror (1978 film), a UK film starring James Aubrey
• The Terror (1920 film), an early "talkie" film shot in Sonora, California
• The Terror (1938 film), a film directed by Richard Bird

[edit] Literature

• The Terror (novel), a 2007 novel by Dan Simmons

[edit] Music

• Terror (band), an American band from California
• "Terror", a song by My Ruin from Speak and Destroy

[edit] History

• Reign of Terror, a period of extreme violence, 1793 - 1794, during the French Revolution
  • The last weeks of the Reign of Terror are sometimes referred to as the "Red Terror" or "Great Terror"; see below for other uses of those terms.
• Red Terror, a campaign of repression and violence by Bolsheviks in Soviet Russia 1918 - 1922

• White Terror, acts of violence by reactionary groups as part of a counter-revolution

• Great Terror, another name for the Great Purge, campaigns of repression and persecution in the Soviet Union during the late 1930s

[edit] Naval ships

• Spanish destroyer Terror, a ship that fought in the Spanish-American War
• HMS Terror (disambiguation), at least nine ships of the Royal Navy
• USS Terror (disambiguation), at least four ships of the United States Navy

[edit] Other uses

• Green terror, a tropical freshwater fish
• Night terror, a sleep disorder
• Mount Terror (disambiguation), two mountains
• Terror, the mascot for Appleton West High School

[edit] See also

• Terrorist (disambiguation)
• TERA, a type of data cable connector
• tera-, a numerical prefix denoting 10¹²
• Thera, or Santorini, an archipelago in the Aegean Sea
• Terra (disambiguation)

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