Slide 1 Slide 2 The Taliban Slide 3 Who are the Taliban The Taliban ("Students of Islamic Knowledge Movement") ruled Afghanistan from 1994 until 2001. They came…

1. The Bear Trap Cason Conley 2. The Soviet Occupation of Afghanistan 1979 - 1987 3. President Nur Muhammad Taraki 4.  Founding member of the People's Democratic…

1. The Cold War Part 4 Global Tensions & Detente 2.  Going Global  De-Stalinization  The ‘Third World’  Strategic Superiority  Berlin  The Summit…

Slide 1Nagorno-Karabahk War Timeline w/ Graphics HISTORICAL BACKGROUND & BUILD UP – THE WAR (1992-1994) – PEACE PROCESS (incomplete) *1988 marks the beginning of…

Slide 1 WAR WITH IRAN? A Geopolitical Backgrounder Dr. Zoltán Grossman Member of the Faculty (Geography & Native American Studies) The Evergreen State College, Olympia,…

Slide 1 Slide 2 THE HISTORY OF AFGHANISTAN: SOVIET INVASION BY: SARA CODY, NICK TORRES, AND CHRIS ROPPOLO Slide 3 AT THE TIME, AFGHANISTAN WAS AN UNSTABLE MONARCHY, LEAD…

Slide 1 Hungary and Suez Slide 2 Hungary 27-28 June Nagy delivers his own ‘secret speech’ to party Central Committee which is a devastating critique of the Stalinist…

Post-Cold War, 1989-2001 (because of in class test, will complete this lecture next week) IRPG 833, Lecture 6 OUTLINE Revision U.S. Foreign Policy and the End of the Cold…

Slide 1 Slide 2 Dwight D. Eisenhower  President-Republican 1953-1961  Policy of Brinkmanship Would use military force to stop the spread of Communism  Domino theory…

Slide 1 The History of Afghanistan Slide 2 Afghanistan: An ethnically mixed population a) Due to location astride historic trade and invasion routes of Central Asia Yet Pashtuns…