USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan and the U.S. Response, 1978–1980. At the end of December 1979, the Soviet Union sent thousands of troops into Afghanistan and immediately assumed complete military and political control of Kabul and large portions of the country.

Detailed explanation-2: -The 1979 invasion triggered a brutal, nine-year civil war and contributed significantly to the USSR’s later collapse. The 1979 invasion triggered a brutal, nine-year civil war and contributed significantly to the USSR’s later collapse.

Detailed explanation-3: -On December 24, 1979, the Soviet Union invades Afghanistan, under the pretext of upholding the Soviet-Afghan Friendship Treaty of 1978.

Detailed explanation-4: -Affairs with the USSR after the revolution Even before the revolutionaries came to power, Afghanistan was “a militarily and politically neutral nation, effectively dependent on the Soviet Union.” A treaty, signed in December 1978, allowed the Democratic Republic to call upon the Soviet Union for military support.

Detailed explanation-5: -The United States grain embargo against the Soviet Union was enacted by US President Jimmy Carter in January 1980 in response to the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. The embargo remained in effect until Ronald Reagan ended it in 1981 upon taking the office of president.