Politics
The year 2001 was a fairly busy with regards to politics. President George W. Bush replaced Bill Clinton as the 43rd President of the United States. The United States was attacked by terrorist in planes on September 11, 2001, two hitting the world trade towers, one hitting the pentagon, and one crashing in pennsylvania. Then later the US and its allies invaded Afghanistan, replacing it’s leadership to gain control of the terrorist groups in that area. This site will cover these three topics in more detail.

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George W. Bush
President George W. Bush served from January 20, 2001 until January 20, 2009 serving two full terms as President of the United States. The year 2001 was a very crucial year for President Bush, within his first year of presidency the events of September 11th happened, as well as the invasion of Afghanistan. Many view what happened on September 11th as a turning point for his presidency. From this point on the main focus of his presidency was the War on Terror.


Sept 11, 2001
This day will forever be remembered as the day when all of America stood still. On September 11, 2001 he United States was attacked by terrorist in planes, two hitting the world trade towers, one hitting the pentagon, and one crashing in pennsylvania. Resulting in the death of 2,974 civilians from 90 different countries.(wiki)

While the impact of the planes on the World Trade Towers didn’t collapse them immediately, within two hours they both had fallen. According to Wikipedia most of the people below the impact area of the planes were able to escape.(wiki) Resulting in a lot fewer deaths. After the collapse of the South tower a toxic dust cloud filled the streets causing difficulties with rescue and recovery. Soon after the first tower collapsed the North Tower fell as well. The collapsing of the two towers damaged many of the surrounding buildings causing one of the smaller World Trade building to collapse later in the day.

At the pentagon the a plane crashed into the side causing a fire and a portion of the building to collapse. This resulted in the death of 64 people in the plane and 125 people in the building. Thankfully they were doing renovations in most of that section which reduced the number of casualties significantly.

The fourth plane crashed in a field near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. This was because the people on the plane decided to fight back. Many of the passengers banded together and tried to take on the hijackers. This resulted in loss of control of the plane and then to the crash. The planned destination was the capitol building in Washington D.C. All 40 passengers died in the crash.

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Twin Towers
Pentagon
Flight 93


After the events of September 11th many people throughout the nation dropped what they were doing and went to help. Thousands of volunteers flocked to New York to help with the massive undertaking of identifying bodies. Those who didn’t go to the sites did what they could from home. Many fundraisers and support for the victims families came forth.



War with Afghanistan

As a result of the attacks on September 11 the United States and allies went to war in Afghanistan on October 7, 2001 and are still there today. Afghanistan is where the Terrorist Leader Osama Bin Laden lives and runs his terrorist group. The group called the Tabliban had taken over the government and was giving safe harbor to Osama Bin Laden’s terrorist group Al-Qaeda. The purpose of the war was to remove the Taliban regime and find Osama Bin Laden. To date the Taliban has been removed but they have yet to find Bin Laden.

War with Afghanistan