today we started off by going over the african map and after we went on with the blog discussion, we also went over a few current events
1. History of Afghanistan to 1970's
they got their independence august 19th 1919, after 1920ish the soviet union wanted control of afghanistan because they wanted "protection". kabul is the capital, of course we have been at war there for awhile
2. Soviet Union invasion of Afghanistan
the prime minister was trying to get rid of muslim from afghanistan and make it more communist, there were invaded to make sure the prime minister stayed in power. the gov't of afghanistan asked the soviet union to invade them. most of the people didnt like the fact that muslim was being rid of, so they formed a group and started to combat the soviet union, the soviets were more trained but the afghans were more prepared. they had the advantage because they were used to the weather and terrain, guerrila warefare is coming out and attacking then run and hide to prevent casulties. the mujahideen was a group of "holy warriors" that were trying to fight off the soviet union. the soviet union was trying to outlast the afghan people.
3. History of Taliban
they started after the soviet invasion so pakistan started giving them weapons to defend themselves, after they became a militia, they went into a gov't, they also came into power in 95 to 2001. started in 1979 because of the soviet union invasion, 1989, the soviet union had withdrawn and left even though they could have crushed the afghans.
4. History of al-Qaeda
al-qaeda's goal is to destroy islam(most likely spelled wrong), they are very strict on homosexuality, women are more of something to be owned, bin ladin hated us because we pledged we would be out of sadi arabia be we werent and he feared we would take over it,
5. History of Osama bin Laden
borin in 1957, the 7th son, at 13 he lost his father, his native country is saudi arabia, he married a relative, 1979, he got his college education. may 1st, bin laden was killed in a fire fight in his compound, when we found out it was really him, he was buried at sea.
6. 9-11(what happened, why did it happen)
during the attack, a hijacked plane going to the pentagon was taken back by the passengers and had it crashed in pennsylvania killing everyone on board, after the first hit, everyone believed that it was an accident but soon after the second, they realized it was an attack. it happened because
7. War in Afghanistan(Bush, Obama)
we went to war because of al-qaeda was training in afghanistan, in a matter of weeks we were able to take out the taliban leader, then afterwards, we set up a democracy there. bushs downfall was changing his focus from al-qaeda and taliban to go to iraq because he felt they had WMD
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