Why Did The Us Invade Afghanistan

In December of 1979 The Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. As a result, to protect the country and the resources available in the country, six other countires decided to get involved. These six countries included the United States, Saudi Arabia, China, Pakistan, Iran, and of course the Soviet Union. The countries got involved to help and aid the countries fighting. The United States espicially helped aid the Mujahideen.

The first county involved that I am going to talk about in the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union had a communist government. The Soviets wanted to spread communism to Afghanistan. They believed they were leaders. They decided in December 1979 to invade Afghanistan to spread the communist-style government to them. The Soviets wanted to take over Afghanistan also because of there rich oil supply. The Soviets did not really have any support from any country. The United States helped Afghanistan because they wanted oil and they wanted to defeat communism and the Soviets.
They also loved the oil supply in the Middle East espicially in Afghanistan. The United States wanted to promote stability in the Middle East. They wanted to get rid of communism in the Middle East altogether. The United States also wanted to prtect people from terrorism. The United States wanted to protect the oil supply from the Soviet Union because they did not want them to get more powerful. The soviets are our enemy. We aided the Mujahideen which became the Taliban. Pakistan also aided the Mujahideen Pakistan is where Osama Bin Laden was found. The Mujahideen later did defat the Soviets. The soviets were forced to retreat in 1989 which is when the Soviet Union collapsed and caused economic