Historical Comparison Assignment

1. 
   Pick an event in history that you can compare/contrast with the September 11, 2001 attack on the United States. Some ideas are:
   

Cold War

Bloody Friday in Northern Island July 21, 1972

Beslan School Hostage Crises September 2004

October Crises and FLQ in Quebec 10/5/70 and 10/10/70

Air India Flight 182 Bombing June 22, 1985

Pakistan’s Benazer Bhutto December 27, 2007

Pearl Harbor 1941

Hiroshima

Kennedy Assassination

Race Against Nuclear Disaster at Three Mile Island

2. 
   Using www.Readwritethink.org/files/resources/interactives/venn/
   

Title: Historical Comparisons

By: your name

Label Circle 1 – September 11, 2001

Label Circle 2 – your historical event title

The following must be answered in your Venn Diagram (you may include other information you find):

3. 
   Motives and identities of the attackers
   
4. 
   Number of lives lost
   
5. 
   Targets of the attacks
   
6. 
   Military response of the United States to the attacks
   
7. 
   You may find information on the internet, history textbooks, firsthand accounts of the events, interview older persons who lived through or remember the event, news reports of the event.
   
8. 
   Your Venn diagram must be printed out and will be graded.
   
9. 
   You will have 2 hours of class time to work on this.
   
10. 
    You will present your Venn diagram to a group and it will be graded using the Venn diagram rubric on Thursday of this week.