notes
-Soviets wanted to influence region and fit their southern expansion policy
-Sept. 1979 soviets invade and install Babrak Karmal as a puppet president
-The west, china, and india are alarmed and boycott the 1980 Moscow Olympics
-The invasion is seen as the end of detente
-Soviets opposed by Mujaheddin
-By 1985 soviets had 100,000 troops deployed
-Soviets accused of using chemical warfare
-Soviet public opposed the war and they withdraw
-Sept. 1979 soviets invade and install Babrak Karmal as a puppet president
-The west, china, and india are alarmed and boycott the 1980 Moscow Olympics
-The invasion is seen as the end of detente
-Soviets opposed by Mujaheddin
-By 1985 soviets had 100,000 troops deployed
-Soviets accused of using chemical warfare
-Soviet public opposed the war and they withdraw
summary
In 1979, the Soviets invade Afghanistan in an attempt to expand their communist views as well as gain control of resources. However because Afghanistan has so many remote villages within its country it was very tough to sway a consensus to support communism and therefore the soviet fight was doomed from the start.