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Afghanistan Review
Review for quiz on Afghanistan
Question | Answer |
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Space launch center in Central Asia | Baikonur |
Treeless plains covered with grassland vegetation found in much of Central Asia | steppes |
Salt lake, located in Central Asia, which has shrunk about 40% since the 1960's | Aral Sea |
Mountain range in eastern Afghanistan | Hindu Kush |
One of the rivers in Central Asia which is used for irrigation necessary for the cultivation of cotton in Central Asia | Amu Darya or Syr Darya |
Fossil fuel which is an important natural resource in Central Asia | petroleum, coal, or natural gas |
Overland Trade route connecting Europe and Asia | Silk Road |
Important city which grew up in Uzbekistan along the Silk Road | Samarkand |
Religion of the majority of people in Central Asia | Islam |
Desert in Central Asia | Kara Kum or Kyzyl Kum |
Important cash crop grown in area around the Aral Sea; known as "white gold" | cotton |
Central Asian natural resource which is used as fuel for atomic (nuclear) energy | Uranium |
City which grew up at an oasis along the Silk Road in modern day Uzbekistan | Samarakand |
Country, which for most of the 20th century, counted 5 Central Asian countries among its republics | USSR (Soviet Union) |
Largest country in Central Asia | Kazahkstan |
Only Central Asian country which was NOT part of the former Soviet Union | Afghanistan |
Group which opposed the communist government which gained control of Afghanistan in 1978 | Mujahedin |
Islamic militant group which gained control of Afghanistan when the Soviet Union withdrew in 1989 | Taliban |
One way in which Taliban limited women's rights in Afghanistan | Women not allowed to work Girls not allowed to attend school Women not allowed in public without male companion |
Terrorist leader who was given protection in Afghanistan by the Taliban government | Osama bin Laden |
Terrorist group led by Saudi-born Osama bin Laden | al-Qaeda |
Mastermind of terrorist attack on the USA on September 11, 2001 | Osama bin Laden |
Country to which many Taliban and al-Qaeda fled after October 2001 by USA and other countries | Pakistan |
Man who became the elected President of Afghanistan in 2004 | Hamid Karzai |
US President who re-focused USA attention on Afghanistan rather than Iraq | Barak Obama |
Chief Military commander for Afghanistan appointed by President Obama | Lt. General Stanley Mc Chrystal |
Afghan refugee whose picture appeared on a National Geographic Magazine in 1985; known for many years simply as "Afghan girl" | Sharbat Gula |