afghanistan in 1979
In 1979, using the Brezhnev Doctrine as an excuse, the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan to support a new Communist government. The Soviets took control of the major cities but they were not able to wipe out resistance in the countryside. The invasion of Afghanistan led to a collapse of detente with the United States. The Soviets had more soldiers and better weapons than the Afghans. The United States gave the Afghan rebeks military and economic aid.In 1980 Ronald Reagan defeated Carter by promising to loosen governmental restraints on the marketplace, increase military spending, and confront the Soviets everywhere. Reagan spent $2.2 trillion for the military over eight years and imposed economic sanctions to protest Brezhnev''s crackdown on Poland. Military spending and structural economic problems transf
http://www.questia.com/SearchNoAuthMediator.qst?action=1, April 19, 2001 Cordesman, A. H. Lessons of Modern World Volume III.{Online} http://www.history.uiuc.edu/steinb/219material/Gorbachev%20Chronology.html, April 20, 2001 Brief Cronology of Events. {Online} Available http://www.inforplease.com/ce6/history/A0802662.html, April 21, 2001 The tension finally lessened after Mikhail Gorbachev assumed power in Moscow during 1985. Realizing that the Soviet economy was collapsing, he made such major concessions in the areas of conventional forces, nuclear weapons, and removing internal controls that Reagan agreed to arms and economic agreements. In 1989 Gorbachev pulled stalemated Soviet forces from Afghanistan and announced that "the postwar period is over." After some hesitation, the George Bush adminis
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