September 11, 2001Terror strikes the United States. Four commercial planes are hijacked and used to destroy the World Trade Center twin towers in New York and the Pentagon in Washington, DC. Some 3,200 people are killed. The US accuses Al Qaeda, led by Osama bin Laden, as the mastermind behind the attacks.

September 12, 1944The United States, Britain, and the Soviet Union sign an agreement to occupy Germany. Seven months later, the Nazi strangleh