1. September 11, 2001
By: Carri Mims
Period 6

2. Terrorism
• Terrorism means:
The use of
violence and
threats to
intimidate or
coerce, especially
for political
purposes.
• 19 men were
terrorist who
attacked
America.

3. Twin Towers
• There were 110
floors on each tower.
• There was an
average of 45,000 –
50,000 square feet
per floor.
• Over 50,000 people
worked in each
tower.
• 103 elevators were in
each tower also.
• There were 200,000
tons of steel that
held up the towers.

4. • The first plane
hit the north
tower at 8:47 in
floors 90-100.
• The plane (Flight
11), was caring
24,000 gallons of
jet fuel.
• 5 hijacker's were
on that plane, 76
passengers and 11
crew members.

5. • At 9:02 the
second plane hit
the south tower
and flew into the
floors 78-87.
• The plane (Flight
175) had 5
hijackers, 51
passengers and 9
crew members.

6. • While all of this
was happing
President George
Bush was in a
school in
Sarasota, Florida
reading to a
group of
kindergarteners.
• He was told at
9:00 that the
first plane had
hit the north
tower in N.Y.

7. • The White House
was evacuated at
9:45, and the
Capitol and other
federal buildings
were evacuated
at 9:48.
• At 9:55
President Bush
left Florida and
headed to the Air
force base but he
was in the air
most of the time.

8. • At 9:50 the
south tower of
the world trade
Center collapsed.
• At 10:28 the
north tower
collapsed.
• New York was
covered in ashes
and debris

9. The Pentagon

10. • At 9:41 Flight 77
Crashed into the
side of the
Pentagon.
• 5 hijackers, 53
passengers and 6
crew members
were on the
plane.

11. Crash in Pennsylvania

12. • Flight 93 crashed into
a field in Shanksville,
Pennsylvania which is
80 miles out of
Pittsburg at 10:00.
• This flight had 4
hijackers, 33
passengers and 7 crew
members.
• This plane was suppose
to be heading to the
White House, but
investigators say that
some of the passengers
fought to hijackers and
brought the plane down
before it got to the
White House.

13. • In some of the plane
rubble investigators
found part of a letter
that belonged to the
hijackers that read,
“Purify your heart and
forget something called
life, for the time of play
is gone
and the time of truth has
come…when the plane
starts moving, then you
are traveling
toward god and what a
blessing that travel is.”
• The plane attacks were
not a suicide attack but
to the hijackers it was
act of serving their
god.

14. The Hijackers

15. • There were 4 planes
that were used for
this terrorists
attack and 19
terrorist.
• There terrorists
smuggled small
knives onto the
planes to kill the
pilots.
• Most of the
terrorist took flight
lessons in America so
they would know how
to fly the planes.
• They also took a GPS
with them on the
planes so they would
know where they

16. • All these men were
from the Middle
Eastern nations.
• They all belonged to
an international
terrorist
organization called
al Qaeda which
mean “the base”
• These men were all
well educated and
went to graduate
school.
• Their parents were
all every shocked
that they did this
horrible attack and
they didn’t even
know about it.

17. Osama bin Laden
• He is the most infamous
terrorist of all time.
• He grew up around
wealth and privilege
• He graduated from a
Saudi university in 1979
with a degree in civil
engineering.
• Osama inherited $80
million form his father
which was estimated to
be about $250 million
when he was an adult.
• He was shot in the head
by the Navy SEALs on
May2, 2011 and was
buried in the North
Arabian sea.

18. Twin Towers Memorial

19. Building the Memorial
• 4 Word Trade
Center buildings
were built along
with 2 Reflecting
pools/waterfalls
were the towers
stood, 1 World
Trade Center
Transportation
Hub and a 9/11
Museum.
• It took about 10
years to do this
project.

22. • Where the twin
towers used to
stand, they put a
giant reflecting
pool/waterfall.
• Around the pool
are engraved
names of all the
victims that were
killed in the
tragedy.
• Over 3,311 People
died in all of the
crashes and
attacks.