September 11, 2001

Do NowThink of anything that you know

about the events of September 11, 2001. Talk with your partners in your group to share stories that you would like to share with the class.

World Trade Center

Pentagon

Chronology of Events8:00 am American Airlines Flight 11Departs from Boston, going to Los

Angeles8:14 am United Airlines Flight 175Departs from Boston, going to Los

Angeles8:21 am American Flight 77Departs from Washington D.C., going to

Los Angeles8:41 am United Flight 93Departs from Newark, going to San

Francisco

US Map

Chronology of Events

All 4 planes were hijacked by terrorists

8:46 amAmerican Airlines Flight 11 hits

WorldTrade Center’s North Tower 9:03 amUnited Flight 175 hits World Trade

Center’sSouth Tower

Chronology of Events9:08 am FAA bans all takeoffs nationwide for

flightsgoing to or through airspace around

NewYork City.9:21 amAll bridges and tunnels into Manhattan closed9:26 amFAA bans takeoffs of all civilian aircraft

President George W. Bush

Chronology of Events9:40 amAmerican Airlines Flight 77 crashes into the Pentagon9:45 amFAA orders all aircraft to land as soon aspossible (approximately 4,500 planes) 9:59 amSouth Tower of WTC collapses10:07 amUnited Flight 93 crashes into Pennsylvania

field10:28 amNorth Tower of WTC collapses

Aftermath2,977 victims died during the

events of September 11246 people on the 4 planes2,606 people in the WTC125 at the Pentagon

Osama bin Laden

Osama bin Laden FactsLeader of the terrorist group Al-

QaedaSuspected of bombing U.S.

embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998

WTC bombing in 1993USS Cole in Yemen in 2003Orchestrated events of

September 11

United States ResponseIncreased airport security nationwide

October 7, 2001Bombing of Afghanistan orderedOctober 26, 2001 USA Patriot Act passedNovember 25, 2002Department of Homeland Security developedMarch 20, 2003United States invades Iraq after Saddam

Hussien issuspected of having weapons of mass

destruction

United States ResponseDecember 13, 2003Saddam Hussein capturedMay 1, 2011Osama bin Laden killed by Navy

Seals

Saddam Hussein

Captured!

Freedom Tower

World Trade Center

9-11 Memorial

9-11 Memorial

9-11 Memorial

9-11 Memorial

Wrap UpDescribe any information that

you learned today or found interesting.