Question REVIEW

1. In what year did World War II start?

a. 1939 b. 1934 c. 1993 d. 1945 a. 1939 b. 1941 c. 1945 d. They didn’t join a. Six years b. Ten years c. Nine years d. Three years

2. When did the U.S. join the war?

3. How long did World War II last?

4. Why did the Germans want Adolf Hitler as their leader?

5. Why did the German people need hope after World War I?

6. Who were the Axis Powers?

Fill in the events based on what you read in the article.

The British Air Force bombs Germany. Italy surrenders to the Allies. Russians push the German army back to Germany.

Japan surrenders to the Allies.

• There were 43,600 windows in the Twin Towers—over 600,000 square feet of glass.

• The World Trade Center was a group of seven buildings in Manhattan.

• There were 239 elevators and 17 escalators in the World Trade Center complex.

9/11

Before you board an airplane, you must go through a security check. You must empty your pockets, take off your shoes, and walk through a metal detector or scanner. All this security was added after 9/11 to prevent terrorism.

1 , A BOEING 767 CARRYING 81 PASSENGERS AND 11 CREW MEMBERS, DEPARTS FROM BOSTON.

The Twin Towers were the pride of New York City. When first built, they were the tallest buildings in the world. At 1,360 feet, the towers were the focal point of the New York skyline. The focal point is what your eyes are drawn to first. Around 50,000 people worked in each of their 110 floors of offices.

On September 11, 2001, the Islamic terrorist organization, Al-Qaeda, hijacked four passenger airplanes. To hijack a plane is to take control of it or force the pilot to fly as directed. The hijackers crashed two of the planes into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in New York City. They crashed a third plane into the Pentagon. The Pentagon is the headquarters of the Department of Defense in Virginia. That is where decisions about war and security are made. The hijackers tried to crash the fourth plane in Washington, D.C. The passengers forced them to crash the plane in an empty Pennsylvania field instead.

3 , A BOEING 757 WITH 58 PASSENGERS AND 6 CREW MEMBERS, DEPARTS FROM WASHINGTON.

1 CRASHES INTO THE NORTH FACE OF THE NORTH TOWER (1 WTC) OF THE WORLD TRADE CENTER, BETWEEN FLOORS 93 AND 99. ALL 92 PEOPLE ON BOARD ARE KILLED.

3 CRASHES INTO THE WESTERN SIDE OF THE PENTAGON. ALL 64 PEOPLE ON BOARD ARE KILLED.

4 IS CRASHED BY ITS HIJACKERS IN A FIELD IN SOMERSET COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA. LATER REPORTS INDICATE THAT PASSENGERS HAD LEARNED ABOUT THE WORLD TRADE CENTER AND PENTAGON CRASHES AND WERE RESISTING THE HIJACKERS. ALL 44 PEOPLE ON BOARD ARE KILLED IN THE CRASH.

FIVE STORIES OF THE WESTERN SIDE OF THE PENTAGON COLLAPSE DUE TO THE FIRE.

The planes were hijacked by 19 terrorists soon after takeoff, when the fuel tanks are still full. The crash into the Twin Towers created huge fires and thick black smoke. The impact, flames, and damage caused the buildings to collapse in less than two hours.

People watched the burning towers in disbelief. Burnt pieces of paper, from offices that had been in the tower, were seen all over the city. Tragically, 2,996 people died on 9/11, including 343 firefighters and paramedics, 23 New York City police officers, and 37 Port Authority police officers. They died while trying to help people leave the buildings.

The U.S. responded to the attacks by taking military action in Afghanistan. Osama bin Laden, the Afghan leader of the terrorist group A-Quaeda, had planned the 9/11 attacks. President Bush ordered the American Army to find bin Laden and kill him. Ten years after the attacks bin Laden was found hiding in Pakistan and was killed by American soldiers.The day of these attacks is now known as 9/11. There is now a memorial park in the World Trade Center complex. Two pools sit on the exact location of the towers. The name of every person who died in the attack is inscribed, or written, on bronze panels on the outside of the pools.

One World Trade Center, a new skyscraper of 1,776 feet, was built nearby. 1776 is the year America declared independence.