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September 11 th , 2001. A Day America Will Never Forget. Do Now. 9-11-2013 How has the world changed as a result of 9/11?. Why Study 9/11?. It is the largest act of domestic terrorism in U.S history. It was the justification for both the war in Afghanistan and Iraq. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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September 11th, 2001
A Day America Will Never Forget.
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Do Now
9-11-2013
How has the world changed as a result of 9/11?
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Why Study 9/11?
• It is the largest act of domestic terrorism in U.S history.
• It was the justification for both the war in Afghanistan and Iraq.
• It resulted in laws limiting the freedoms of American citizens.
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Why Study 9/11? Continued
• It has forever changed the way Americans travel.
• The attacks largely brought out the best and in some cases the worst in Americans.
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The World Trade Center
• Each tower had 110 floors• Each floor was roughly an
acre in size. • The North Tower was
1,368 feet high. It had a TV antenna that was 360 feet.
• The South Tower was 1,362 feet.
• Over 500 companies had offices in the complex.
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First Plane Strikes the North Tower• At 8:46 a.m. Flight 11
crashed in floors 93-99 of the North Tower.
• At 8:50 a.m. President George W. Bush is informed that a plane hit the WTC. He is speaking to a group of elementary school students in Sarasota, Florida.
• At this point the crash is believed to be an accident.
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The Second Tower is Struck• 8:55 a.m. South
Tower tenants are instructed to stay in the building.
• 9:02 a.m. The South Tower is ordered evacuated. An estimated 10,000-14,000 people are evacuating the WTC.
• 9:03 a.m. Flight 175 crashes into floors 77-85 of the South Tower.
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Fall of the Towers• 9:59 a.m. after burning for 56
minutes the South Tower collapses in 10 seconds. 600 workers and first responders died
• 10:28 a.m. the North Tower collapses killing approximately 1.400 people in the tower and the surrounding area.
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White Ash Rained Everywhere
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“Ground Zero”
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TV Antenna from the North Tower
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Pentagon Attack
United States Pentagon
Pentagon shortly after flight 77 crashes at 9:37 a.m. on 9/11
The crash killed all 59 passengers and 125 military and civilian personnel in the pentagon.
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Flight 93
• 9:57 a.m. The passengers and crew of United 93 had been able to alert loved ones that their plane was hijacked.
• When passengers attempted to retake control of the plane the hijackers crashed it into a field in Somerset County, Pa.
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Most of those murdered on 9/11
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Missing Persons
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Perpetrators: Al QaedaOsama Bin Laden
Head of Al Qaeda Khalid Sheikh Mohammed9/11 Mastermind
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9/11 Hijackers
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9/11 Hijackers
• All Male.• Most in were in their 20s.• None of them had a military background.• Many were well educated.• The common link between the attackers is
that they became involved with radical Islam.
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Heroes of 9/11
Gloves donated by NYPD Emergency Services Detective David Brink. These gloves were worn on 9/11. When the skyscraper crashed, he placed the glove hands to protect against the black cloud of suffocating dust.
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Airfone Recovered from Flight 93
Had the passengers of Flight 93 not overtook the attackers, many more could have died.
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Blood drive held in Wisconsin to help Those wounded in the 9/11 attacks
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NYFD• 343 New York City Firefighters
died saving the lives of others during 9/11.
• Those that survived suffered high rates of cancer and other diseases because of inhaling toxic dust at “Ground Zero”.
• To this day many Firefighters and other survivors of 9/11 are haunted by post traumatic stress disorder.
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• Pat Tillman was an NFL Player that joined the army in the aftermath of 9/11.
• Pat Tillman died on April 22nd 2004 fighting in Afghanistan.
• It was later ruled that the cause of his death was friendly fire.
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Building the New World Trade Center
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Freedom TowerOne World Trade
Center
Waterfront view
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The New World Trade Center
• Will include four buildings.• 1 World Trade Center (Formerly called the
Freedom Tower) will be the tallest. The building will be 105 floors and exactly as tall as old WTC.
• 1 World Trade will have a beacon on top that will take it to 1776 feet making it larger than the old building.
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The New World Trade Center
• 1 World Trade will have approximately 2.6 million square feet of office space.
• In addition to the four skyscrapers being built, the site will also include a memorial museum for the victims of 9/11.
• The project is expected to be finished in early 2014 and cost over $4 billion dollars.
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Controversy about Construction
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• Developers have elected to build the tower without the radome pictured on the left.
• Some have argued that without the radome the antenna won’t count towards the buildings height.
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Construction as of February, 2013
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