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9/11
On September 11, 2001, four ordinary American
passenger planes were hijacked by members of
an extremist Islamic group known as al-Qaeda.
The TERRORISTS flew two of the planes
straight into the twin towers of the World Trade
Center in New York. Another plane hit the
headquarters of the Department of Defense, the
Pentagon, in Washington, DC, and the fourth
crashed in a field. Around 3,000 people died.

Terrorist Flames rise in
planes hit the the streets of Cairo,
Twin Towers. Egypt, during the
Arab Spring.
Did you know?
After 9/11, the US
declared a “War on
Terror”—which led to
wars in Afghanistan
and Iraq.
Protests on Wall
Street, New York’s
financial district.

Arab Spring

Starting in December 2010, a wave of protests
and civil wars spread across the Arab world.
The people of Tunisia, Libya, Egypt, and Yemen
Global banking crisis Spring,” suggesting a time of new beginnings.
In 2008, an economic crisis began in the
forced their longstanding dictators out of power.
USA where banks lent a lot of money to
There were UPRISINGS in many other Arab
people who couldn’t pay it back. The banks
countries, as ordinary citizens made it clear
themselves had to borrow to survive. Soon,
that they would not accept bad government.
no one dared lend anybody anything. World
The whole revolution was called the “Arab
cash flow dried up, and many people lost
their homes and jobs as a result of the crisis,
The chain of events set in motion continues
leading to a widening gap between the RICH
AND THE POOR. today, but not all changes have lasted.

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