Summer+Olympics-Jarrid+Fries

The invasion of Afghanistan was on December 27th 1 979. The leader of the Soviets, Leonid Brezhnev said that ,"The intervention would be quick and uncontested." He thinks that president Jimmy Carter was too worried about the hostages in Iran and responded to the situation in Kabul. This led to a major conflict in Central Asia. Jimmy had a plan up his sleeve, and it was to see the skills of the Soviet Union. It contested them in areas that they would need to be masters in, which was the threat of grain, embargo, and withdrawal to the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT II), which wanted to replace the Interim Agreement and strategic weapons, from consideration of the Senate. It wanted to equal out the number of strategic vehicles and weapons for both sides. Also wanted to boycott on the 1980 Summer Olympics which was held in Moscow. The early 1980s the nation wanted to boycott the Olympics out of the Soviet Union. The Olympics was played above politics because people set goals and their were messages involved in them, not just games. It became popular to the nation and people wanted to be in it and play for their country or team. They left the games be because people liked it so much and people gpt to see what ski    lls they have and what they can do.

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