Why did the soviets face greater resistance from the mujahedeen than they expected? check all that apply. the soviets were unfamiliar with the afghan terrain. foreigners enlarged the size of the mujahedeen. the soviets’ poorly made weaponry was easily overcome and destroyed. the mujahedeen had an innate understanding of all the soviets’ weaknesses. the mujahedeen received training and weapons from the united states.

The Soviets were unfamiliar with the Afghan terrain.

The mujahideen received training and weapons from the United States.

Those are the two primary factors that made it problematic and, ultimately, impossible for the Soviet Union to win its war in Afghanistan. The Washington Post reported in 1988, after the USSR had been struggling in its war with the Afghans for nearly a decade: "Afghanistan is Russia's Vietnam -- possibly with even greater consequences for the Soviet Union." Much like the United States struggled in unfamiliar territory against a highly motivated enemy in Vietnam, the USSR found it could not win in Afghanistan. And the help offered to Afghan fighters by the United States was a sizable factor also in strengthening the Afghan resistance. The book, Charlie Wilson's War by George Crile III, published in 2003, details how the US covertly carried out its support of the Afghan mujahideen.

The answer about foreigners enlarging the size of the mujahideen has truth to it, but it was not a strong factor in terms of the main resistance faced by the Soviets. There were fighters known as "Afghan Arabs" or "Arab-Afghans"-- Islamic fighters from various other places (not all Arab)--who came to help in what they saw as a holy war. There were perhaps 20,000 or 30,000 such volunteers that came to Afghanistan to fight, but their impact was not as great as Afghans' own resistance against the Soviets.. As reported by GlobalSecurity, those fighters were on the fringe of the effort, not the main forces in battling back the USSR. "The United States supported the Afghans fighting for their country's freedom in the 1980s - as did other countries, including Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, China, Egypt, and the UK - but the United States did not support the 'Afghan Arabs,' the Arabs and other Muslims who came to fight in Afghanistan for broader goals."

the dominoes began to fall. the surrender at appomattox took place a week later on april 9. while it was the most significant surrender to take place during the civil war, gen. robert e. lee, the confederacy's most respected commander, surrendered only his army of northern virginia to union gen. ulysses s. grant

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