The Soviets invaded Afghanistan to expand the influence (spread of communism) and to protect their interests of Afghanistan (natural resources- oil‚ coal‚ iron‚ and ore). This occurred in the end of December 24‚ 1979. Thousands of troops were sent to Afghanistan by the Soviet Union. Led to complete military and political control of Kabul and large portions of the country. This lasted about nine-years. It ended by the last troops (Soviet Union) departing Afghanistan on February 15‚ 1989. Because
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Détente Economic and Political Reasons for Détente Geopolitical developments: Vietnam‚ Sino-Soviet split‚ the Middle East Middle East Suez Crisis ▪ July - November‚ 1956 ▪ The Egyptian President took control of the Suez canal‚ which‚ although on Egyptian territory‚ had always been controlled by the British and French ▪ Egypt had Soviet support. However‚ the British‚ French and Israelis sent in troops. ▪ When the US refused to back the British‚ the British troops are forced to withdraw.
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Nikita Khrushchev Nikita Khrushchev was born on April 15‚ 1894 in Kalinovka‚ Russia. Khrushchev was the politician who led the Soviet Union in part of the Cold War era. Khrushchev joined the Communist Party and fought in the Red Army during the Russian Revolution in 1918. He quickly rose up the party ranks‚ becoming a member of the Central Committee in 1934. On September 14‚ 1953‚ Khrushchev succeeded Joesph Stalin after his death in the beginning of the year. In a 1956 “secret speech‚” Khrushchev
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which it seemed to all observers that the Soviets had the edge‚ the U.S. landed Apollo 11–carrying Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin–at the Sea of Tranquility on July 20‚ 1969. Nixon was president‚ the Vietnam War and its opposition raged‚ and Leonid Brezhnev helmed a stagnant Soviet empire. On the great list of Cold War what-ifs‚ the near-miss of the Bay of Pigs is surely number one. But for all the space nerds out there‚ this one ranks pretty high: What if Aldrin and Armstrong never made it back
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On February 21‚1972 President Nixon visited The People’s Republic of China. Although the Chinese communist government had not been formally recognized by the United States since 1949‚ Nixon saw an opportunity to make changes. Nixon had multiple goals for this visit. Nixon wanted more than just new relations with China‚ but he believed that these new relations would give the U.S. leverage with the Soviet Union. The United States‚ with the Soviet Union as its primary adversary‚ saw an opportunity with
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confrontation between the United States and the Soviet Union. One of the central aspects of détente was communication between the two governments. Détente was pursued during the Nixon‚ Ford and Carter administrations in the United States and rule of Leonid Brezhnev in the Soviet Union. This effort to improve communication led to small changes such as the installation of a direct hotline between Washington and Moscow and large changes such as the negotiations
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Maddie Brown Mrs. Bossu Block 1 3/24/17 Richard M. Nixon Richard M. Nixon was born on January 9‚ 1913 in Yorba Linda‚ California. He was the second of five children belonging to Frank and Hannah Nixon. From a young age the Nixon family was plagued with bad luck. Is younger brother died in 1925 and his older‚ who he was very close to‚ died in 1933 of tuberculosis. In 1922‚ the Nixon ranch failed and his family moved closer to his mother’s family in Whittier‚ California. His family never had much
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Monumental Changes: Or how the reaction to Stalin by three social groups illustrates the development of Socialism in the Soviet Union from 1945 to the 1990s. Monumental Propaganda relates a bottom-up history of the Soviet Union from the end of WWII to Post-Socialist Russia of the 1990s. The story is presented from the perspective of an unwavering defender of the cultural mores of post-war Russia‚ Aglaya Stepanovna Revkina. It is through this outlook that the reader glimpses the political transformations
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intervene in Czechoslovakia ‘only when an extended amount of hesitation and vacillation’.[1] throughout the course of 1968‚ the steady increase of Dubcek’s reform programme 1st worried and then alarmed Moscow‚ finally persuading Soviet leader Leonid Ilyich Brezhnev that Soviet interests were seriously compromised by the threat of ‘counter-revolution’ in Czechoslovakia. above all‚ Dubcek’s failure to reply to various warnings and ultimatums issued between April and August 1968 appears to have played an
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advancements‚ bringing back those nations and peoples for democracy. Shultz vowed to do so in a new setting‚ where Moscow was a global power dedicated to the safeguarding of communist regimes. That Soviet arrogance‚ known as the Brezhnev Doctrine—a 1968 statement by Premier Leonid Brezhnev proclaiming the permanent socialist gains—was abomination to Reagan‚ "an arrogant pretension‚" as he termed it‚ "that we must face up to." 3. Upon becoming President‚ Reagan moved quickly to undermine Soviet efforts
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