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KArthik GudipatiKArthik Gudipati

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ThesisAfter 9/11, The US government had more responsibility placed on them

and the view of the Middle east has changed for Americans.

ThesisAfter 9/11, The US government had more responsibility placed on them

and the view of the Middle east has changed for Americans.

• The Twin Towers:

• 19 hijackers took control of 2 flights .

• American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into the North Tower at 8:46 a.m.

• United Airlines Flight 175 crashed into the South Tower at 9:15 a.m

• The towers killed more than 3,000 people which included workers, bystanders, and firefighters/cops.

What Happened on 9/11?

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What Happened on 9/11?

• The Pentagon

• Within 30 minutes of the Twin Towers attack another plane attacked the Pentagon

• American Airlines Flight 77, crashed into the Pentagon at 9:37 a.m

• 125 people in the Pentagon and 58 flight passengers were killed because of this attack"September 11 News.com - October 11, 2001 Pentagon Memorial Speech

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What Happened on 9/11?

• A Fourth Flight

• A fourth airliner, American Airlines 93, crashed near Shankville, Pennsylvania after some of its passenger helped stop it from hitting its original target, the Capitol.

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Causes

• Many different given reasons for the attacks on 9/11.

• Spanning from: Bin Laden wanting America to believe in Allah, to conflicts on foreign policies.

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Causes• Possible but Flawed Theories:

• Poverty: Middle East could have been jealous of US economic wealth. But the attackers were found to be part of the middle and upper class of the Middle East, so it implausible.

• Religion: Bin Laden might have disliked our perspective on religious freedom. However, He could have attacked another country with religious freedom as well. For this reason too, the fact that Americans were not Muslim could not be a possible reason as well as most other religious reasons.

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Causes

• More Accurate Theory

• Foreign Policy: As stated by Osama Bin laden himself, this was why al-Qaeda attacked. US’s support for Israel and the help it gave for wars of Israel caused the anti-American perspective in Bin laden. He was later outraged by the 500,000 troops sent to Saudi Arabia after Saddam Hussein’s invasion in Kuwait.

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Impacts

• The 9/11 had many big impacts on the US causing decisions for the future:

• Security:

• America increased its security drastically in order to prevent further terrorist attacks.

• Airplanes were temporarily stopped and delayed because of fear of another terrorist attack on the planes

• Slowly, planes were able to fly again but now with increased security checks at the airports increasing restricted items on the plane while checking the passengers more thoroughly.

• Public areas also increased security, especially shown towards the Muslim American community, because of the fact that the attackers were also Muslim. "Airport Security | Knight Life." Lahser High School - Home. Web. 15

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Impacts

• Illness:

• Both mental and physical illness was brought upon the Americans because of this cataclysm.

• People in the New York area, especially near the World trade Center, were affected by the pyroclastic debris. This caused sickness to these victims.

• Victims trapped in the building had first hand contact with the smoke after the impact of the plane, which first caused coughs and allergies and later turned into dangerous illnesses mainly with the lungs and heart.

•Another type of illness was caused by the traumatic stress that occurred to the victims or victims’ close ones.

• Witnessing a loved one’s death is hard and especially in a terrorist attack where thousands of others died as well causes stress and shock to the victims.

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Impacts• Society:

• There was major discrimination towards the Muslim-American community due to the attacks.

• People lowered there use of public facilities. Such places like malls and movie theaters saw a decline in customers because they could be an easy target for another attack.

• People followed and kept up with the daily news about the government and its policies towards the attacks.

• Media proposed theories and reasons, some which were highly implausible, to give explain why the Arabians attacked America. Hence, people started following the news itself and gave their own opinions to others on the reason why this could have happened.

•Muslim American, as stated before, had a hard time moving on in life without being stared at by others. Not just that, but Muslim Americans had a hard time joining jobs and going to schools because of the safety purposes.

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Impacts• Economy:

• The 9/11 attack had a significant effect on the American as well as the World market.

• The Market did not open on 9/11 and were closed till September 17th. After the opening, the Dow Jones market index fell about 7.1%, the largest one-day point drop.

• By the end of the week, the Market index fell almost 14.3%, the then-largest one week point drop in history causing America to lose about $1.4 trillion in value.

• Many jobs were lost and the wages were drastically declining.

•The US lent money to the New York government to rebuild its economy and infrastructure

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Pre-21 Century Relation

• Pearl Harbor:

• The Japanese bombed the US naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii in 1941.

• This was a surprise attack which took the lives of 2,400 men and wounded about 1,300 men.

• Just like the effect 9/11 had on the Muslim Americans, Pearl Harbor isolated the Japanese Americans as they were seen as a threat.

• This caused America to become part of WWII.

• Before the 21th Century, there were many terrorist attacks that were similar to 9/11:

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Pre-21 Century Relation

• Oklahoma City Bombing:

• Bomb attack on the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in 1995

• “The Oklahoma blast claimed 168 lives, including 19 children under the age of 6, and injured more than 680 people. The blast destroyed or damaged 324 buildings within a sixteen-block radius, destroyed or burned 86 cars, and shattered glass in 258 nearby buildings.” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oklahoma_City_bombing)

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My Questions• 1) What was the evidence, before the information given by Osama, that the Al-Qaeda was behind these attacks?

• The FBI identified the attackers, one of them being a leader of the Al-Qaeda. They also identified that most of them were Saudi Arabian, while only a few were from America, which led to the Al-Qaeda.

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My Questions

• 2) What was George W. Bush’s respond to these attacks on 9/11?

• At first, right after the attack, the Bush administration tried to identify who the attackers were and find out their identities. As of then, their suspicion was at Al-Qaeda, but they weren’t exactly sure as Osama Bin Laden denied it. Later, in 2004, When Bin laden accepted that he was behind the attacks, he was hunted down by the Americans and Bush fought a War against terrorism with Afghanistan.

My Questions• 3) How did the rest of the world respond to the attacks?

• Other countries were devastated by the attacks and they also increased their securities hoping to prevent such a catastrophe to happened to their nation. In addition to this, Treaties were made with America to help them rebuild their infrastructure, especially in the World Trade Center Area in New York and the Pentagon area in Virginia. By doing this they supported America. Also, these other countries

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My Questions

• 4) How did 9/11 impact the security in America

• America increased its security dramatically in order to prevent further terrorist attacks, especially in public places like malls, theaters, airports, and etc. There were delays in transportation and they were stopped temporarily, but they gradually reopened. However, the security checks were increased.

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