Back on track with cold war presentations. still got a long ways to go.
technology is not cooperating with powerpoints.
somehow it seems like we wont get much accomplished today.
um. russia wanted to spread communism. and they wanted afghanistan for its resources and cuz they didnt like the dude in charge, even thought he was communist too.
Taliban formed after russia attacked. they are an islamic group, terrorists.
russia's attack was a failure, so they had low morale. 15,000 soviets were killed, 35,000 wounded. 1 million afghans died tho.
president jimmy carter prohibited trade with russia. boycotted somethig too. we spent a lot of money supporting the afghanistan resistance, the mujad aldin- they later also declared jihan, or, the holy war.
funny enough, the group we supported eventually turned into terrorist groups, al-Qaeda and Taliban.
timeline......the invasion lasted about 10 years.
wow. so that was the only presentation that got done.
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