J. B. | Compare and Contrast
1940s: Major cities in Europe and Japan suffer thousands of casualties in bombings during World War II.
1950s: Americans live in fear of a nuclear attack.
2001: Terrorists flying hijacked airplanes crash into the World Trade Center in New York City, into the Pentagon Building in Washington, D.C., and into the ground at another crash site, killing or wounding over 3,000 people. It is the first time the United States has suffered a large number of civilian casualties from attackers from outside the country.
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