During the cold war rivalry between the US and USSR influenced the MENA by making everyone either pick a side or be chosen by the rivalists. To us it was clear Israel was aligned with the US‚ but the soviets not so much. As the cold war didn’t warm up between the two actual nations of the Soviet Union and United States‚ the war was fought by proxy. The Korean war‚ the Vietnam war were examples of this but neither regions had enough resources or opposition to the US needed to justify the long term
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Afghanistan is a country that has suffered instability and conflicts‚ leaving its infrastructure in ruins. Both the culture and people of Afghanistan have been affected by the political events from World War I to present day. In 1979‚ Soviet troops entered Afghanistan to establish a communist regime in Kabul. The Soviet soldiers took over major cities and highways‚ angering lots of Afghans. The people of Afghanistan felt they belonged primarily to their specific clan or ethnic group and secondarily
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They got involved in Vietnam because they wanted to stop the spread of communism (domino theory) and after France left Vietnam the US felt they needed to take matters into their own hands when communist rebels had overthrown Frances control of Vietnam. The leaders of the USA feared that communist governments would gain control of Vietnam and that would lead to nation after nation falling for communism. President Truman agreed to help France against the Communist Vietnamese; America decided to send
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History The grey war The beginning of the Soviet war in Afghanistan in 1979 marked a new phase in the Cold War‚ the effects of which would continue to cast a shadow over modern politics into the next millennium. The Soviet-Afghan war was driven by the persistent personalities of US National Security Advisor‚ Zbigniew Brzezinski‚ his puppet president‚ Jimmy Carter‚ and Soviet leader‚ Leonid Brezhnev. The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan flipped Cold War politics on its head. The war was a clash of
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Why Did the Soviet Union Lose the War in Afghanistan? Roxanne C. Jones Politics 300‚ Section 003016 Why Did the Soviet Union Lose the War in Afghanistan? ‘Do you think you are going to win?’ ‘Yes‚ yes of course.’ ‘What makes you think so? What makes you think you are going to win?’ ‘I believe we are going to win. It’s evident!’ (Panjshairi commander Ahmad Shah Massoud in an interview from the French prize-winning documentary film ‘Valley against an Empire’ by Jerome Bony and Christophe de Ponfilly
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The cold war began around 1945 and relations between the U.S. and the Soviet Union continued to deteriorate for 40 years. During this time tensions between The U.S and its NATO allies and the soviet union grew along with dooming pressures of nuclear war. The Soviet Union tried to spread communism while the U.S. fought against their political ideology. The Soviet Union was more responsible for causing this cold war. The North Atlantic Treaty was signed by the U.S.‚ Canada‚ and ten nations of Western
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2010 Soviet Intervention on Afghanistan When someone intervenes in your life‚ it’s usually to project their beliefs onto you and force you to stop a destructive behavior. During the Cold War‚ the Soviet Union intervened in Afghanistan‚ not to stop a destructive behavior‚ but to project their own wants and needs (for the oil and other resources) onto Afghan culture. Forcing them to submit to foreign rule‚ the people of Afghanistan fought back to protect their land‚ as a result creating a war that
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Muhammad Ali had refuse to be drafted to fight in the war transcended the boxing ring‚which he had dominated. On March 9‚ 1966‚ at the height of the war‚ Ali’s draft status had revised to make him eligible to fight in the Vietnam war.Ali was Muslim and had cited religious reasons for his decisions to forgo military service.On April 28‚1967 the United States had went to war with Vietnam.On June 20‚1967‚ Ali was convicted of draft evasion and was sentenced to five years in prison and was fined $10
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communist rule in the Russian Empire after the civil war. In 1922‚ it became the first country to make itself a socialist and build their own communist party. Soon after‚ the Soviet Union turned into a communist government. The destruction that the Soviet regime went on to create‚ got Americans on their heels and forced them to rethink their foreign policy‚ in turn‚ causing American foreign policy to change. Initially‚ in the late 1950s‚ the Soviet Union was stronger than ever. It had a strong military
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Throughout the Cold War‚ Soviet culture was something feared by nations outside the Iron Curtain‚ but embraced by those inside it. This was likely correlated with communism‚ and many nations were forced to take upon the Soviet way of life. In Central Asian countries especially‚ Soviet control allowed Soviet culture to spread and endanger traditional culture. It all began with Bolshevik forces conquering the region of Central Asia‚ which in the modern day consists of: Kazakhstan‚ Kyrgyzstan‚ Tajikistan
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