THAT TUESDAY MORNING
At 8:46 a.m., a hijacked jet struck this World Trade Center building first.
What is the North Tower?
This fire department lost 343 members, the worst single-day loss for any fire department in U.S. history.
What is the FDNY (Fire Department of New York)?
Government agencies were criticized after 9/11 for failing to do this with information they each held separately.
What is "connect the dots" (share intelligence)?
Nine days after the attacks, Bush told Congress America was beginning this campaign with no clear borders and no single enemy army.
What is the war on terror?
Speaking from a Florida classroom at 9:30 a.m., this president called the morning "a national tragedy."
Who is George W. Bush?
This many minutes passed between the first and second plane, ending the belief that the crash was an accident.
What is seventeen minutes?
Boat captains carried out an unplanned rescue of roughly this many people off Manhattan.
What is half a million?
Passed just six weeks after the attacks, this law expanded federal power to monitor calls and email and to search records secretly.
What is the USA PATRIOT Act?
The U.S. invaded this country in October 2001 to remove the Taliban government that had sheltered al-Qaeda.
What is Afghanistan?
This New York City mayor promised on the evening of September 11 that the city would still be there tomorrow and would rebuild.
Who is Rudolph Giuliani?
At 9:37 a.m., the third plane hit this military headquarters outside Washington, D.C.
What is the Pentagon?
Passengers on this flight learned from phone calls that other planes had already hit buildings, then voted to storm the cockpit.
What is United Flight 93?
Created in 2002, this new cabinet department folded 22 existing agencies into one.
What is the Department of Homeland Security?
U.S. forces killed this al-Qaeda leader in Pakistan in 2011, nearly a decade after the attacks.
Who is Osama bin Laden?
Bush used this either/or phrase before a joint session of Congress on September 20, 2001, to tell other nations to choose a side.
What is "Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists"?
This many members of al-Qaeda hijacked four planes that morning.
What is nineteen?
Passenger Todd Beamer ended a phone call with these three words before the passengers rushed the cockpit.
What is "Let's roll"?
This agency created the airport screening lines travelers know today.
What is the TSA (Transportation Security Administration)?
The 2003 invasion of Iraq was justified by the claim that Saddam Hussein possessed these — never found by inspectors.
What are weapons of mass destruction?
This California representative, the only member of Congress to vote against authorizing military force, warned, "Let us not become the evil that we deplore."
Who is Barbara Lee?
The South Tower fell at 9:59 a.m.; the North Tower stood until this time.
What is 10:28 a.m.?
Historians believe the Flight 93 passengers saved one of these two Washington landmarks.
What are the Capitol and the White House?
This Wisconsin senator was the only senator to vote against the Patriot Act, warning about life in a police state.
Who is Russ Feingold?
Instability after the Iraq War helped this terrorist group rise years later.
What is ISIS?
This Secretary of State presented evidence of Iraqi weapons programs to the U.N. Security Council in February 2003.
Who is Colin Powell?