Today we continued cold war presentations..
Nixon Visits China
President Nixon visited China
Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
soviets invaded afghanistan to preserve communism
afghanistan civil war was already going on..
the invasion was not to take over the country, it was to keep the communists in power
afghanistan people didn't see it like that, so that's how this all started
in afghanistan grain production dropped
war continued for 3 more years.
5 million mines-killed lots of people
Al Qaeda and Taliban formed after this.
invasion was a failure.
15,000 Soviet soldiers killed, about 1,000,000 afghanistanian soldiers killed
boycotted moscow olympic games in 1980
us spent a lot of money trying to support afghanistan
1979-1989
US was on mujahideen side (non USSR)
trying to corner communism
sent money aid and weapons to fight
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