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Leonid Brezhnev
He was the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Part of the Soviet Union, second to only Stalin. -
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U.S. support of Mujahideen
We had Operation Cyclone, where we provided arms and finance to the Mujahideen when they fought the Soviets. On July 3rd Jimmy Carter signed a document saying that we would fund them. It went through about 1989. -
Babrak Karmal installed as ruler
The current leader was assassinated, so he was placed into ruler of Afghanistan. He promised an end to executions, the establishment of democratic institutions and free elections, the creation of a constitution, and legalization of alternative political parties. He told his people that he had negotiated with the Soviet Union to give economic, military and political assistance to them. In office from 1979-1986. -
Mujahideen alliance
It was an Afghan organization that was formed to function as a united diplomatic front towards the world opinion, and sought representation in the United Nations and Organisation of the Islamic Conference. Osama bin Laden was a primary financial provider. -
USSR, US, Pakistan peace accords
The Geneva Accord consisted of several instruments: a bilateral agreement between the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and the Republic of Afghanistan on the principles of mutual relations, in particular on non-interference and non-intervention; a declaration on international guarantees, signed by the USSR and the USA; a bilateral agreement between Pakistan and Afghanistan on the voluntary return of Afghan refugees; and an agreement on the interrelationships for the settlement of the situation relat -
1992 Civil War
It began after the resignation of the communist President Mohammad Najibullah. The post-communist Islamic State of Afghanistan was established by the Peshawar Accord, a peace and power-sharing agreement under which all the Afghan parties were united in April 1992, except for the Hezb-e Islami of Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. Hekmatyar started a bombardment campaign against the capital city Kabul which marked the beginning of this new phase in the war. In direct contrast to the Soviet era, the countryside -
Taliban seize Kabul
In 1996 The Taliban captured the city Kabul, and established The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. After taking control of the capital city of Kabul on September 26, 1996, the Taliban issued edicts forbidding women to work outside the home, attend school, or to leave their homes unless accompanied by a male relative. In public, women had to be covered from head to toe in a burqa – a body-length covering with only a mesh opening to see and breathe through. Women were not permitted to wear white (th -
UN air embargo on Afghanistan
In 1996 due to the violence in Afghanistan, the U.S. stopped sending in supplies and aid to Afghanistan. They stopped mainly due to the Taliban who would kill for no reason and go against human rights. -
9/11
It was a terrorist attack on the United States by the Islamic terrorist group the al-Qaeda. Two planes crashed into the Twin Towers in New York, as well as the Pentagon. One of the four was aimed for Washington D.C. but crashed.Osama bin Laden the leader of the group claimed responsibility for the attacks.This caused the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan. -
US Invasion on Afghanistan
President George W. Bush said that the Taliban had to hand over bin Laden and stop the al-Qaeda, but they did not do this. In November 2001, we launched the first air attacks on Afghanistan. We then started to go to war with them.
