Today we went over the Africa map and we had a blog discussion for assigned blog #7:
1. History of Afghanistan to 1970's: Afghanistan got named because a person was Afghana so they made Afghanistan as translation of "the land of Afghana". August 19th, 1919 was the end of WWII and the day they gained their independance. The Soviet Union always wanted to control them because they are one of their bordering countries so that they didn't get invaded. Their capital is Cabul.
2. Soviet Union invasion of Afghanistan: the Prime Minister of 1990 was trying to get rid of the muslim religion. The govener of Afghanistan basically asked the Soviet Union to invase them because they didn't think they would have enough control without their help. The majority of Afghanistan didn't want this to happen and actually thought they were being invaded so they faught back with the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union and Afghanistan were like Vietnam and the united states: they know all the mountunious places and the jungles. Hochimen was the leader of Vietnam and was our biggest enemy at the time. He said that the bigger countries (The US and The Soviet Union) are like the elephants in the war and the smaller countries (Afganistan and Vietnam) are like the tigers meaning that the elephants are big and have a lot of force but the tigers were fast and eventually make the elephants bleed to death (mostly meaning being a costly war.) The Soviet Union withdrew from the war because they basically dimaloushed Afghanistan but they would never surrender. The mujahideen were the rebles in Afghanistan.
3. History of Taliban: It started in 1974. The Soviet Union invaded them. They tried to get a tready in 2006 but it got broken. After they became a malishia they got a government and came into power in 1971
4. History of al-Qaeda
5. History of Osama bin Laden
6. 9-11(what happened, why did it happen)
7. War in Afghanistan(Bush, Obama)
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