Historical+Overview+of+Afghanistan

Shante: I read the BBC article Timeline Afghanistan: A Chronology of Key Events which gives information on all the significant events that occured in the country from 1919 to last year. While reading the article, it's inevitable that Afghanistan has gone through numerous social reforms and leaders. After Afghanistan gained their independence from Britain in 1919, Amanullah led the country as Amir first before leading as Shah as he tried to bring in social reforms in 1926; three years later he fled the country due to civil unrest because of said reforms. Decades later, Afghanistan's people have experienced leaders coming in and out of office and assasinations. In the mid 1990s, the Taliban came into light and eventually seized all power whilst bringing forth their fundamentalist powers amongst the Afghanis. Women were forced to stop working and those who were not of the Islamic religion were forced to tag themselves as such. In the years passing up to last year, foreign countries who once helped those in Afghanistan (United States, Soviet Union, etc.) have tried to put an end to the Taliban and their actions.

>>DAVID<<The December 27, 1979, Soviet invasion of Afghanistan was one of the most historically significant events in afghan history. It was however not only significant to the Afghan people but later had a great impact on the United States, in more ways than intended. In the soviets they had had a blind faith, and trust. Never had they imagined their whole government would be overtaken with such force. It began with the invasion of the palace of President Hafizullah Amin, prime minister of the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, the palace in which the soviets had convinced him to take up residence after he replaced former president Mohammed Taraki.

Sangay > Map Exercise In this map it shows all of the Asian countries and some of the European countries. While looking at the map, I noticed there are may countries in Asia that the names end with an. For example, Afghan, Pakistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Iran, Azerbaijan, and etc. Since this section is just a picture of the map of Asia and the project is about Afghanistan, i focused on countries around Afghanistan. Iran, Turkm, Tajikistan, and Pakistan are countries that are touching Afghanistan. Afghanistan is surrounded those countries. Afghanistan is close to the Arabian sea and Indian Ocean.