68 relations: Afghanistan–United States relations, American Foreign Service Association, Arlington National Cemetery, Armored car (VIP), Automatic firearm, Beloit College, Canada, Carjacking, Central Intelligence Agency, Chargé d'affaires, Chevrolet, Chicago, Coup d'état, Cultural diplomacy, Darul Aman Palace, Democratic Republic of Afghanistan, Diplomat, Diplomatic rank, Disinformation, Embassy of the United States, Moscow, Flak jacket, Forensic science, Georgetown University, Germany, Hafizullah Amin, Harry S Truman Building, Harvard University, Humanitarian aid, Illinois, Jimmy Carter, Kabul, Kabul Serena Hotel, KGB, Khalq, Liberia, Lieutenant commander, Limousine, List of ambassadors of the United States to Afghanistan, List of unsolved deaths, National Security Advisor (United States), Nur Muhammad Taraki, Parcham, Peace Corps, Pistol, Point-blank range, Political prisoner, Political science, Presidency of Jimmy Carter, Robert Finn (diplomat), Saur Revolution, ..., Settam-e-Melli, Soviet Union, Soviet–Afghan War, Tahir Badakhshi, Theodore L. Eliot Jr., Time (magazine), United States, United States Department of State, United States Foreign Service, United States Information Agency, United States Navy, Vasili Mitrokhin, Wasef Bakhtari, Washington University in St. Louis, Washington, D.C., World War II, Yugoslavia, Zbigniew Brzezinski. Expand index (18 more) »
Afghanistan–United States relations
Afghanistan–United States relations can be traced to 1921 but the first contact between the two occurred further back in the 1830s when the first recorded person from the United States was visiting Afghanistan.
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American Foreign Service Association
American Foreign Service Association (AFSA), established in 1924, is the professional association of the United States Foreign Service.
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Arlington National Cemetery
Arlington National Cemetery is a United States military cemetery in Arlington County, Virginia, across the Potomac River from Washington, D.C., in whose the dead of the nation's conflicts have been buried, beginning with the Civil War, as well as reinterred dead from earlier wars.
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Armored car (VIP)
A civilian armored car is a security vehicle which is made by replacing the windows of a standard vehicle (typically a limousine or SUV) with bulletproof glass and inserting layers of armor plate into the body panels.
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Automatic firearm
An automatic firearm continuously fires rounds as long as the trigger is pressed or held and there is ammunition in the magazine/chamber.
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Beloit College
Beloit College is a private liberal arts college in Beloit, Wisconsin.
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Canada
Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.
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Carjacking
Carjacking is a robbery in which the item taken over is a motor vehicle.
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Central Intelligence Agency
The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) is a civilian foreign intelligence service of the United States federal government, tasked with gathering, processing, and analyzing national security information from around the world, primarily through the use of human intelligence (HUMINT).
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Chargé d'affaires
A chargé d'affaires, often shortened to chargé (French) and sometimes to charge-D (abbreviated in colloquial English), is a diplomat who heads an embassy in the absence of the ambassador.
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Chevrolet
Chevrolet, colloquially referred to as Chevy and formally the Chevrolet Division of General Motors Company, is an American automobile division of the American manufacturer General Motors (GM).
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Chicago
Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles.
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Coup d'état
A coup d'état, also known simply as a coup, a putsch, golpe de estado, or an overthrow, is a type of revolution, where the illegal and overt seizure of a state by the military or other elites within the state apparatus occurs.
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Cultural diplomacy
Cultural diplomacy a type of public diplomacy and soft power that includes the "exchange of ideas, information, art, language and other aspects of culture among nations and their peoples in order to foster mutual understanding".
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Darul Aman Palace
Darul Aman Palace (قصر دارالامان.; د دارالامان ماڼۍ; "abode of peace" or, in a double meaning "abode of Aman") is a ruined palace located about sixteen kilometers (ten miles) south-west outside of the center of Kabul, Afghanistan.
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Democratic Republic of Afghanistan
The Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (DRA; جمهوری دمکراتی افغانستان,; دافغانستان دمکراتی جمهوریت), renamed in 1987 to the Republic of Afghanistan (جمهوری افغانستان;; د افغانستان جمهوریت), commonly known as Afghanistan (Pashto/Dari:, Afġānistān), existed from 1978 to 1992 and covers the period when the socialist People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) ruled Afghanistan.
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Diplomat
A diplomat is a person appointed by a state to conduct diplomacy with one or more other states or international organizations.
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Diplomatic rank
Diplomatic rank is a system of professional and social rank used in the world of diplomacy and international relations.
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Disinformation
Disinformation is false information spread deliberately to deceive.
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Embassy of the United States, Moscow
The Embassy of the United States of America in Moscow is the diplomatic mission of the United States of America in the Russian Federation.
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Flak jacket
The two components of an obsolete British military flak vest. On the left, the nylon vest. On the right, the several layers of ballistic nylon that provide the actual protection A flak jacket or flak vest is a form of body armor.
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Forensic science
Forensic science is the application of science to criminal and civil laws, mainly—on the criminal side—during criminal investigation, as governed by the legal standards of admissible evidence and criminal procedure.
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Georgetown University
Georgetown University is a private research university in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States.
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Germany
Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.
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Hafizullah Amin
Hafizullah Amin (Pashto/حفيظ الله امين; born 1 August 1929 – 27 December 1979) was an Afghan communist politician during the Cold War.
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Harry S Truman Building
The Harry S Truman Building is the headquarters of the United States Department of State.
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Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Humanitarian aid
Humanitarian aid is material and logistic assistance to people who need help.
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Illinois
Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.
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Jimmy Carter
James Earl Carter Jr. (born October 1, 1924) is an American politician who served as the 39th President of the United States from 1977 to 1981.
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Kabul
Kabul (کابل) is the capital of Afghanistan and its largest city, located in the eastern section of the country.
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Kabul Serena Hotel
Kabul Serena Hotel is a luxury hotel in downtown Kabul, Afghanistan.
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KGB
The KGB, an initialism for Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti (p), translated in English as Committee for State Security, was the main security agency for the Soviet Union from 1954 until its break-up in 1991.
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Khalq
Khalq (خلق, meaning "Masses" or "People") was a faction of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA).
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Liberia
Liberia, officially the Republic of Liberia, is a country on the West African coast.
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Lieutenant commander
Lieutenant commander (also hyphenated lieutenant-commander and abbreviated LCdr, LCdr. or LCDR) is a commissioned officer rank in many navies.
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Limousine
A limousine is a luxury vehicle driven by a chauffeur and with a partition between the driver and the passenger compartment.
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List of ambassadors of the United States to Afghanistan
The United States Ambassador to Afghanistan is the official representative of the President of the United States to the head of state of Afghanistan.
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List of unsolved deaths
This list of unsolved deaths includes notable cases where victims have been murdered or have died under unsolved circumstances, including murders committed by unknown serial killers.
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National Security Advisor (United States)
The Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs (APNSA), commonly referred to as the National Security Advisor (NSA) or at times informally termed the NSC Advisor,The National Security Advisor and Staff: p. 1.
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Nur Muhammad Taraki
Nur Muhammad Taraki (15 July 1917 – 8 October 1979) was an Afghan statesman during the Cold War who served as President of Afghanistan from 1978 to 1979.
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Parcham
Parcham (Pashto/پرچم, meaning "Banner" or "Flag") was the name of one of the factions of the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan.
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Peace Corps
The Peace Corps is a volunteer program run by the United States government.
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Pistol
A pistol is a type of handgun.
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Point-blank range
Point-blank range is any distance over which the trajectory of a given projectile fired from a given weapon remains sufficiently flat that one can strike a target by firing at it directly.
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Political prisoner
A political prisoner is someone imprisoned because they have opposed or criticized the government responsible for their imprisonment.
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Political science
Political science is a social science which deals with systems of governance, and the analysis of political activities, political thoughts, and political behavior.
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Presidency of Jimmy Carter
The presidency of Jimmy Carter began at noon EST on January 20, 1977, when Jimmy Carter was inaugurated as 39th President of the United States, and ended on January 20, 1981.
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Robert Finn (diplomat)
Robert Patrick John Finn (born December 19, 1945) is a scholar of Turkish Studies and International Relations, and was the first United States ambassador to Afghanistan in more than 20 years, from March 22, 2002 until August 1, 2003.
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Saur Revolution
The Saur Revolution (إنقلاب ثور or ۷ ثور (literally 7th Saur); د ثور انقلاب), also called the April Revolution or April Coup, was a coup d'état (or self-proclaimed revolution) led by the People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) against the rule of Afghan President Mohammed Daoud Khan on 27–28 April 1978.
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Settam-e-Melli
Settam-e-Melli (Dari Persian for "National Oppression"), variously romanized as Setam-i-Milli, Setami Milli, Setam-i-Meli, Setam-e-Meli, Setami-i-Milli, and Setame Melli, was a political movement in Afghanistan, led by Tahir Badakhshi.
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Soviet Union
The Soviet Union, officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was a socialist state in Eurasia that existed from 1922 to 1991.
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Soviet–Afghan War
The Soviet–Afghan War lasted over nine years, from December 1979 to February 1989.
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Tahir Badakhshi
Taher Badakhshi (1934–1979) (Persian: طاهر بدخشی) has been a cultural and political personality in Afghanistan.
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Theodore L. Eliot Jr.
Theodore Lyman Eliot Jr. (born January 24, 1928) was the United States Ambassador to Afghanistan from 1973 to 1978.
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Time (magazine)
Time is an American weekly news magazine and news website published in New York City.
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United States
The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.
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United States Department of State
The United States Department of State (DOS), often referred to as the State Department, is the United States federal executive department that advises the President and represents the country in international affairs and foreign policy issues.
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United States Foreign Service
The United States Foreign Service is the primary personnel system used by the diplomatic service of the United States federal government, under the aegis of the United States Department of State.
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United States Information Agency
The United States Information Agency (USIA), which existed from 1953 to 1999, was a United States agency devoted to "public diplomacy".
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United States Navy
The United States Navy (USN) is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States.
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Vasili Mitrokhin
Vasili Nikitich Mitrokhin (Васи́лий Ники́тич Митро́хин; March 3, 1922 – January 23, 2004) was a major and senior archivist for the Soviet Union's foreign intelligence service, the First Chief Directorate of the KGB, who defected to the United Kingdom in 1992 after providing the British embassy in Riga with a vast collection of KGB files, which became known as the Mitrokhin Archive.
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Wasef Bakhtari
Wasef Bakhtari (استاد واصف باختری) (born 1942 in Balkh, Afghanistan) is an Afghan poet, literary figure and intellectual.
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Washington University in St. Louis
Washington University in St.
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Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington or D.C., is the capital of the United States of America.
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World War II
World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.
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Yugoslavia
Yugoslavia (Jugoslavija/Југославија; Jugoslavija; Југославија; Pannonian Rusyn: Югославия, transcr. Juhoslavija)Jugosllavia; Jugoszlávia; Juhoslávia; Iugoslavia; Jugoslávie; Iugoslavia; Yugoslavya; Югославия, transcr. Jugoslavija.
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Zbigniew Brzezinski
Zbigniew Kazimierz "Zbig" Brzezinski (March 28, 1928 – May 26, 2017) was a Polish-American diplomat and political scientist.
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References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolph_Dubs