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10:28 A.M
The north tower of the World Trade Center collapses. -
8:46 A.M.
Around 25 minutes after controllers lost contact, Flight 11 crashes into the north tower of the World Trade Center. -
9:03
Flight 175 crashes into the World Trade Center's south tower 43 minutes after air traffic control lost contact with the flight's pilots. -
9:59 A.M.
The World Trade Center's south tower falls. -
10:10 A.M.
Flight 93's unsuccessful mission to attack the nation's Capital ended in a crash in Pennsylvania -
9:37 A.M.
Pentagon hit by a hijacked plane -
Bush's State of the Union Address
In his State of the Union address, President Bush describes an "axis of evil" between Iraq, Iran and North Korea. Osama bin Laden is not mentioned in the speech. -
Terror Warnings
The Bush administration issues an unprecedented series of terror warnings. Vice President Cheney warns it is "not a matter of if, but when" al Qaeda will next attack the U.S., a warning repeated by Homeland Security Director Tom Ridge. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld says that terrorists will "inevitably" obtain weapons of mass destruction, and FBI Director Mueller says more suicide bombings are "inevitable. -
Pro-American Government
A panel of experts on Iraq warns the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that there are no obvious successors to Saddam Hussein, and that the Bush administration should be prepared to help install and protect a pro-American government -
Sadam's control of entire middle east
In a speech to the Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in Nashville, Vice President Richard Cheney charges that Saddam Hussein will "seek domination of the entire Middle East, take control of a great portion of the world's energy supplies, directly threaten America's friends throughout the region and subject the United States or any other nation to nuclear blackmail. -
War Begins
President Bush announces that the United States will go to War with Iraq -
Capturing Saddam Hussein
U.S. 4th Infantry Division captures former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein in Adwar, a small village near Tikrit -
Death Toll
The number of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq since the start of the war reaches 500. Of those, 346 soldiers were killed in combat and 154 died from accidents. -
Death Toll
Death Toll reaches 1000 -
Free Elections
Defying death threates, mortar rounds and sucide bombers, Iraqis turn out in great numbers to vote in the country's first free elections in 50 years. -
Death Toll
2,000 service members killed in Iraq since 2003 -
Approval Rating
President Bush's approval rating at an all time low 34%, while pessimism about the Iraw war has risen to a new high. -
Death Toll
List of American military deaths in Iraq reaches 3,000. -
Death Toll
Death toll is at 4,000 -
U.S.Embassy
The enourmous new United STates Embassy compound is dediccated in Baghdad by Iraqi and American officials who declare the start of a new era for relations -
Parliamentary Elections
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End of Combat Operations
Obama delcares an end to the seven year American combat mission in Iraw saying that the united states has met its responsibilty to that ocountry and that it is now time to turn to problems at home. -
Calls U.S. Troops Home
Obama said that the last American soldier would leave Iraq by the end of the year, bringing an end to a nearly 9 year military engagement that cost the lives of 4,400 tropps and moare than $1 trillion.
