2. WHY IS SEPTEMBER 11TH IMPORTANT?
Although you likely do not
remember this event, you
live in a society that was
dramatically affected.
3. WHERE WAS THE ATTACK?
• Located mostly in New York
City, but affected Washington
DC and Pennsylvania as well
• In NYC, the attack was
centered on the World Trade
Center, specifically the Twin
Towers
4. THE WORLD TRADE CENTER
• The South Tower of the WTC stood at
1362 feet and the North Tower stood 6
feet taller, at 1368 feet
• Both towers had 110 stories
• 50,000 people worked in the Twin
Towers
5. TIMELINE: BEFORE THE ATTACK
5:45 AM 8:14 AM
Al Queda Flight 175 8:42 AM
hijackers takes off Flight 93
pass airport fourteen takes off 42
security minutes late minutes late
7:59 AM 8:20 AM
Flight 11 Flight 77
takes off takes off ten
fourteen minutes late
minutes late
6. TIMELINE: THE 9/11 ATTACK
9:03 AM
Flight 175
8:46 AM crashes into the
Flight 11 South
Tower, just 1 9:37 AM
crashes into minute after Flight 77
the North evacuation was crashes into the
Tower ordered Pentagon
8:50 AM 9:05 AM
President Bush President
is alerted of the Bush is alerted
attack while at about the
an elementary
school in Florida second plane
crash
7. TIMELINE: THE ATTACK CONTINUED
9:59 AM 10:15 AM
The South The E-Ring of
Tower collapses the Pentagon
in 10 seconds collapses
10:03 AM 10:28 AM
Flight 93 The North Tower
crashes into a collapses after
field in burning for 102
Pennsylvania minutes
9. EFFECTS OF THE ATTACK
• Airport security is much
stricter now
• Sparked the War in
Afghanistan
• Increase in American fear of
terrorism
• Negative stereotypes against
Middle Easterners developed
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14. SEPTEMBER 11TH MEMORIAL
• 8-acre park area
• Cost over $700 million to
build
• Designed by Michael Arad
and Peter Walker
• 2,983 names of those
who died in the
planes, the buildings, or
rescue efforts
