Transcript The History of Afghanistan from 1950’s-1978

The History of
Afghanistan from 1950’s1978
By:Molly Rowland, Maddie DeZordo, and
Nicole Mazzone:)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DKya
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Afghanistan once had Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts. In the 1950s and '60s,
such programs were very similar to their counterparts in the United States,
with students in elementary and middle schools learning about nature
trails, camping and public safety. But scouting troops disappeared entirely
after the Soviet invasions in the late 1970s
1953 Prince Mohammad Daoud becomes Prime Minister.
In the 1950s purdah
(gendered separation) was
abolished
Children in a Kabul street, November, 1961
“As a girl, I remember my mother wearing
miniskirts and taking us to the cinema. My aunt
went to university in Kabul.”
- Horia
Girls in Afghanistan in the
1960s
The Afghan communist party
assumed power in the 1970s
In 1975 Daoud Khan
presents a new
constitution.
In 1978 sign a treaty of friendship with the
Soviet Union. Afghan guerrilla (Mujahideen)
movement is born.
These are the normal looking woman you would see
today if they weren't forced to become refugees, or
forced to wear a burqa under the Taliban rule in 1978.
Afghanistan changed their flag in 1978
Before
After
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