Question

Select and read a primary and secondary text about the September 11, 2001, attacks. You may use video and print for your source, then create a presentation that meets the following requirements.
Present the key ideas in the primary account
What ideas seemed critical?
Did the presentation of material make an impact on you? (Think: word choice, expressions, details provided.)
Discuss the author’s analysis and conclusions
Present the key ideas in the secondary account
What ideas seemed critical?
Did the presentation of material make an impact on you? (Think: word choice, expressions, details provided.)
Discuss the author’s analysis and conclusions.
Analysis
What was unique about what the primary source taught you?
What was unique about what the secondary source taught you?
Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of each source
Were details missing from one or both sources?
Did both sources provide the same or a more complete picture of the event?

Answer 1

Answer: September 11 attacks, also called 9/11 attacks, series of airline hijackings and self harm attacks committed in 2001 by 19 militants associated with the Islamic extremist group al-Qaeda against targets in the United States, the deadliest terrorist attacks on American soil in U.S. history. The attacks against New York City and Washington, D.C., caused extensive death and destruction and triggered an enormous U.S. effort to combat terrorism. Some 2,750 people were killed in New York, 184 at the Pentagon, and 40 in Pennsylvania (where one of the hijacked planes crashed after the passengers attempted to retake the plane); all 19 terrorists died (see Researcher’s Note: September 11 attacks). Police and fire departments in New York were especially hard-hit: hundreds had rushed to the scene of the attacks, and more than 400 police officers and firefighters were killed.

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