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The attack on the World Trade Centre twin towers happened on which date?Read the answer and worked solution →How many hijackers carried out the 9/11 attacks?Read the answer and worked solution →About how many people were killed in the 9/11 attacks?Read the answer and worked solution →9/11 was the most severe attack on US soil since the country's founding in which year?Read the answer and worked solution →The First Gulf War, which liberated Kuwait, was fought in which year?Read the answer and worked solution →How many troops from how many countries fought Iraq in the First Gulf War?Read the answer and worked solution →The UN operation in the First Gulf War was code-named:Read the answer and worked solution →Despite winning the Gulf War, George H. W. Bush lost the 1992 election to whom?Read the answer and worked solution →NATO air forces bombed Yugoslavia for two months over its actions in which province?Read the answer and worked solution →Operation Infinite Reach was Clinton's response to embassy bombings in which two cities?Read the answer and worked solution →The US-led 2003 invasion of Iraq was code-named:Read the answer and worked solution →Conservative estimates say how many Iraqi civilians died after the US-led invasion?Read the answer and worked solution →The word hegemony comes from Greek and originally described which city-state's dominance?Read the answer and worked solution →The US spends more on its military than how many next powers combined?Read the answer and worked solution →Military force can accomplish four tasks: conquer, deter, punish and what?Read the answer and worked solution →Free trade needs open sea-lanes of communication. Which navy has kept them open since British decline?Read the answer and worked solution →The Bretton Woods system that shapes the world economy was set up by the US after which war?Read the answer and worked solution →The world's first business school, Wharton, was established in which year?Read the answer and worked solution →The Internet grew out of a US military research project that began in which year?Read the answer and worked solution →The US share of the world economy is described as an enormous:Read the answer and worked solution →The ability to persuade rather than coerce, as with American culture, is called:Read the answer and worked solution →Which is named as the only organisation that can constrain US power today?Read the answer and worked solution →Catch the operationsRead the answer and worked solution →Pop the 9/11 targetsRead the answer and worked solution →Run the hegemony yearsRead the answer and worked solution →Slice the power typesRead the answer and worked solution →Hard or soft powerRead the answer and worked solution →Which PresidentRead the answer and worked solution →Type the numberRead the answer and worked solution →Hegemony bingoRead the answer and worked solution →

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The attack on the World Trade Centre twin towers happened on which date?

  1. 11 September 2001
  2. 9 November 1989
  3. 11 September 1991
  4. 26 November 2008
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Correct answer: A. 11 September 2001

1. Nineteen hijackers took four aircraft. 2. The attacks came on 11 September 2001. 3. Americans write it as 9/11. _Source: syllabus Political Science, Contemporary World Politics, Chapter 3, US Hegemony in World Politics._

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How many hijackers carried out the 9/11 attacks?

  1. Fourteen
  2. Nineteen
  3. Ninety
  4. Thirteen
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Correct answer: B. Nineteen

1. Nineteen hijackers from Arab countries took control of four planes. 2. Two hit the twin towers. 3. One hit the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia. _Source: syllabus Political Science, Contemporary World Politics, Chapter 3, US Hegemony in World Politics._

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About how many people were killed in the 9/11 attacks?

  1. Nearly three thousand
  2. Nearly three hundred
  3. Nearly thirty thousand
  4. Nearly three lakh
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Correct answer: A. Nearly three thousand

1. Nearly three thousand died. 2. It was compared to the burning of Washington in 1814. 3. And to Pearl Harbour in 1941. _Source: syllabus Political Science, Contemporary World Politics, Chapter 3, US Hegemony in World Politics._

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