WORLD WAR II
DECOLONIZATION PHASE
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Afghanistan
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Korea
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Australia
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Armenia
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Detailed explanation-1: -On December 24, 1979, the Soviet Union invades Afghanistan, under the pretext of upholding the Soviet-Afghan Friendship Treaty of 1978. As midnight approached, the Soviets organized a massive military airlift into Kabul, involving an estimated 280 transport aircraft and three divisions of almost 8, 500 men each.
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -The Soviets Upheld the ‘Brezhnev Doctrine’ Even Dubček’s modest steps away from hardcore communism offered reason enough for the Soviets to invade Czechoslovakia and abduct him. By 1979, Afghanistan, a faltering, once-friendly regime, provided another chance for the USSR to militarily enforce the Brezhnev doctrine.
Detailed explanation-4: -The mujahideen were eventually able to neutralize Soviet air power through the use of shoulder-fired antiaircraft missiles supplied by the Soviet Union’s Cold War adversary, the United States.