Turn in any late or absent Propaganda Poster Homework.

bull Then in 1826 British and Russian forces fought each other in Afghanistan

bull The citizens of Afghanistan fought against the British troops three times and on August 19 1919 defeated the British for the last time and British troops left the country

bull From there political unrest dictated Afghanistan life with several powers coming and going until 1979

Pre Russian Invasion History

Afghanistan and the Cold War-The Soviets invaded Afghanistan in 1979 in order to support the Communist Partyrsquos push for power in the Country

-The opposing side was an Islamic Fundamentalist Osama Bin Laden being one of them group that was supported by the United States and Western Allies

-In 1989 the Soviet finally withdrew from Afghanistan

Afghanistan Historybull In 1979 (around the

same time as the Iranian Revolution discussed earlier) The Soviet Union sent troops to Afghanistan to help the communist government there in a civil war

Afghanistan Historybull This led to a long war

between Soviet troops and Afghan rebels (Mujahedeen)

bull The United States was supporting the Afghan rebels

bull In 1989 an alliance of Afghan rebel groups took power and the Soviet troops left

bull Then the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan to set up a pro-Moscow government

bull For the next 9 years a civil war broke out with different tribes of Afghanistan against and with the Soviet forces

bull The Soviets pulled out in 1989 but they left a pro-Moscow government who fell with the Soviet Union in 1992

bull Over 1 million Afghans were killed 5 million Afghans fled to Pakistan and Iran

bull Another 2 million Afghans were displaced within the country

Russian Invasion

bull In the 1980s one out of two refugees in the world was an Afghan

bull Vital parts of the Afghan economy were destroyed including Irrigations systems to provide water for farming

The Talibanrsquos primary opposition was called the Northern Alliance and by 2001 the Northern Alliance had been pushed back to only 10 of Afghanistan to the north

Then as we all know the events of September 11th 2001

The United States knew that Osama Bin Laden was in Afghanistan and that we were going to go in there and get him

United States Invasion

bull In October of 2001 the United States invaded and in a short time by December of 2001 swept through and took control of the major cities and pushed the Taliban and Al Qaeda to the Pakistan-Afghanistan border and we helped to establish a new government that is in place today

Compare and contrast the Russian and United States invasions

Do in a T-Chart or a Venn Diagram

On your Left Side

Late 1970s-2004bull In 1979 Afghanistan was invaded and eventually

controlled by the Soviet Unionbull In 1989 Afghanistan and the Soviet Union signed

a peace agreementbull In 1995 the Taliban promising traditional Islamic

values came into power imposing strict Islamic law including revoking many womenrsquos rights

bull In 2001 American troops force the Taliban from power

bull In 2004 Hamid Karzai became the first elected Afghan president

Taliban Rule

Afghanistan Historybull Turmoil in Afghanistan continued and in

the mid-1990rsquos a radical Muslim group called the Taliban arose

bull The Taliban took over most of Afghanistan and ruled strictly

bull The Taliban forced women to wear veils and stop working outside the home

Afghanistanbull Taliban came to power

in most Afghanistan by 1996

bull Osama bin Laden moved his terrorist activities there

bull Used mountain hideouts as a base of operations for his terrorist network called al-Qaeda

Map of Afghanistan in 1996 showing the amount of Taliban territory captured at that time (yellow) The Afghan Civil War commenced between 1996-2001 before coalition forces headed by the United States began air strikes against the Taliban

The TalibanPrior to 2001 the Taliban led by Mullah Mohammad Omar ruled Afghanistan under Islamic law During this time women had virtually no rights and received no education Watching television and listening to music were forbidden as were playing games and sportsThe United States entered Afghanistan in October 2001 and replaced the Taliban with an elected president While the Taliban lost some power and the people regained some rights the Taliban has not gone away Instead it has worked to regain power by promising to help Afghanistanrsquos poorest people and aligning itself with warlords al-Qaida and other militant groups to gain financial support and recruit new fighters

Taliban Leader Mullah Mohammad Omar

bull Examples of abuses three men accused of a crime had been sentenced to death by being partially buried in the ground and then having a wall pushed over on them by a bulldozer a bizarre and labor-intensive form of execution dreamed up by the supreme leader of the Taliban

Abuses of Power

bull After another accused criminal was hanged his corpse was driven around the city swinging from a crane

bull A young woman caught trying to flee Afghanistan with a man who was not her relative was stoned to death

bull On another occasion it was announced over the airwaves that 225 women had been rounded up and sentenced to a lashing for violating the dress code