02+Attacks+on+US

//By.Joel Augustin//
 * __//Attacks on US Citizens//__**

**__//Luisitania//__ **
 * Introduction:**
 * Issue #1:** Description of attacks on US: Lusitania and September 11, 2001

The Cunard ocean liner // Lusitania  // was sunk by a German submarine off the coast of Old Head of Kinsale, Ireland on May 7, 1915. 1100 people got killed and about 100 of them were Americans.(Grolier Online) The ship was 785 feet long, and 31,950 tons. It was crossing the Ocean to England coming from New York.

//**9/11 Happened “September 11, 2001”** // //**﻿** // **The US had no idea what was going on when the first out of two planes hit the World** **Trade Center. So they were trying to rescue people out of the first twin tower than another plane hit the other tower and people were just terrified and didn’t know what was going to happen. There was a third and fourth plane the third one hit the Pentegon and the fourth one was going towards the White House but the passengers made the hijackers crash in the middle of an empty field.**
 * Issue #2: Who was responsible for the attack and why. **
 * **Lusitania:Germany was respnsible for sinking the ship they torpedoed the ship with a subrine trying to stop goods from getting to England and places like that.They stopped subrine warfare for a while so they wouldnt anger the US anymore than they already had but they started again later on.
 * **Lusitania:Germany was respnsible for sinking the ship they torpedoed the ship with a subrine trying to stop goods from getting to England and places like that.They stopped subrine warfare for a while so they wouldnt anger the US anymore than they already had but they started again later on.

September 11 Al-Quaeda was reponsible for the attacks to the New York City Twin Trade Centers, Al-Qadea is from Iraq and they wanted to stop our trading

Issue #3: What were the effects of the attack?

Lusitania The Americans got mad and the German Government banned unrestricted subrine warefare to keep Americans from getting into the war. They later started it again and that’s when America got into the war.

September 11 ** We went into war. The war today is the longest war the US has ever had. (2001- Present) A lot of people disagree with the war and say that it should be peace not war. **   ** Works Cited **   "Lusitania." //Encyclopedia Americana.// Grolier Online, 2011. Web. 24 Feb. 2011.