World Trade Center 9/11 Effects

The Attack on the World Trade Center was an attack that was worse than any other. The attack took place on September 11, 2001 when two planes flew into the World Trade Center, Killing thousands of people. There were a total of 19 terrorists in the attack, they were under control of Osama Bin Laden. There were a total of four planes that crashed on September 11, 2001, one in a field in Pennsylvania, another flew into the Pentagon, and the most known crash that flew two planes into the World Trade Center. The Terrorist attack of September 11, 2001 had a big impact on the security if American airlines, and the Government policies toward immigration.
The World Trade Center was a very big commercial complex spanning over sixteen acres and contains

The group of terrorists chose the planes because they were had big gas tanks full that were fueled for their long journey, there was a total of 19 terrorists’ that took knives and box cutters onto the flight and took over control not long after they left the airport (9/11 Attacks). The first plane was an American Airlines Boeing 767 leaving from Boston. The plane crashed into the north tower at 8:45 in the morning, leaving an enormous and flaming hole between the 93rd and 99th floors (Schmemann). When the plane hit it killed hundreds of people and closed in around a hundred more in the floors above them. People trapped by the damage and flames leaped off the side of the building to their deaths, desperate to escape. Evacuation began immediately, but 18 minutes later, another Boeing 747, this one an United Airlines flight, sliced through the south tower between the seventy-seventh and eighty-fifth floors (9/11 Attacks). This crash caused a huge explosion, fueled by the planes’ full gasoline tanks. Both buildings collapsed and severely damaged five other buildings in the World Trade Center complex. The pile of ruins stretched seventeen stories high, a monument to the desolation caused by the attacks (FAQ about

For the first time in the history of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization took it into their own hand to put Article 5 of the Washington Treaty into act (BBCNews), which states that an armed attack against one or more allied countries is an attack against all allied countries. The United States took their right of self-defense during the war, meaning that a country that has been threatened or attacked has the right to defend itself in any way that is needed. That is when America sent troops into Afghanistan to find the group leader Osama bin