1) Four flights were hijacked. Two crashed into the World Trade Center towers, one crashed into the Pentagon, and one was going for an undisclosed target, but ended up crashing into a field in Pennsylvania. Over 2,000 lives were lost.
2) The War on Terrorism began which is still going on to this day. Airlines now have more security measures, the 24 hour news cycle began, and the Patriot Act was enacted.
3) First responders are dealing with mental and physical health issues from responding to the attacks. They have trauma from what they saw when responding, and have been getting illnesses like cancer from all the dust and asbestos at the attack sites. The death toll from the attacks is still rising due to this
One piece of evidence that Duara uses in the passage to support his claim regarding Western racial attitudes and Japanese militarism in the second paragraph is where he says that Japan was allotted a lower quota of ships than the British and Americans.
Or you can say...
Discrimination was perceived in the international conferences in Washington (1922), the London Naval Conference (1930), and wherever Japan was allotted a lower quota of ships than the British and Americans. But most of all, it was the buildup of exclusionary policies in the United States and the final Exclusion Laws prohibiting Japanese immigration in 1924 that galled Japanese nationalists. In their view, Asian civilization did not exhibit inhuman racist attitudes and policies of this kind, and for [Japanese] militants . . . these ingrained civilizational differences would have to be fought out in a final, righteous war of the East against the West.”
One result was that King George III would not let colonists settle west of the Appalachian Mountains.
The answer is B- radio was widely used, so people thought an alien invasion was taking place.
