On September 11, 2001, 19 terrorist members of Al-Qaida (an extremist Islamic network) hijacked four commercial airliners. In a coordinated attack, the hijackers deliberately blew up two planes targeting the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center and a third plane targeting the Pentagon.
The attack caused 2,977 deaths, more than 25,000 injuries and serious long-term health consequences. In addition, infrastructure and property losses amounted to at least US $ 10 billion. This was the deadliest terrorist attack in human history and the death toll of firefighters and law enforcement personnel. Incident: 340 and 72 military officers in US history died respectively
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One big reason: It gave the North an additional, powerful reason to fight and win the war.
Additional reasons: It gave the Union Army another source of soldiers, and it kept foreign powers from allying with the Confederacy.
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President Abraham Lincoln issued The Emancipation Proclamation as an executive order on January 1, 1863. The executive order declared freedom for slaves in ten Confederate states in rebellion against the Union. It also allowed that freed slaves could join the Union Army to fight for the cause of reuniting the nation and ending slavery. As summarized by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, "The Proclamation broadened the goals of the Union war effort; it made the eradication of slavery into an explicit Union goal, in addition to the reuniting of the country."
While Lincoln personally was strongly against slavery, he had to tread carefully in his role as president and commander-in-chief. The Emancipation Proclamation was carefully worded in order to retain the support of four border slave states, which remained in the Union though they were states that permitted slavery, were Maryland, Missouri, Delaware, and Kentucky. Lincoln wanted to keep those states loyal to the Union cause.
The Emancipation Proclamation was also a way of blocking foreign support for the Confederate cause. According to the American Battlefield Trust, "Britain and France had considered supporting the Confederacy in order to expand their influence in the Western Hemisphere. However, many Europeans were against slavery." Britain had abolished slavery in its territories in 1833. France had put a final end to slavery in its territories in 1848. So when Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, it also served as a foreign policy action to keep European powers out of the US Civil War, according to Steve Jones, professor of history at Southwestern Adventist University.
A. Nazi leaders were brought to trial for war crimes committed during world war ii.
The Nuremberg Trials took place in Nuremberg, Germany from 1946-1949. The trials were meant to address the war crimes committed by Nazis during World War II.
The members of the Nazi party who committed acts against humanity during the war were brought to trial. Their crimes were addressed as human rights violations and defined as "war crimes" which broke agreed upon rules of war. Both military and civilan members of the Nazi Party were tried for their crimes in particular in regard to the Holocaust. Though the trial was unprecedented it would come to be the standard for the International Court established by the United Nations.
