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Download Iran, the Soviet-Afghan War, and the collapse of the USSR
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Iran Mohammed Mossadeq Muhammad Reza-Shah Pahlavi Ayatollah Khomeini 1979 Revolution – US Embassy Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Afghanistan: A Soviet Vietnam Soviet-Afghan War When? 1979-1989 Why? 1. The new communist regime in Afghanistan was threatened with overthrow? 2. The Afghan mujahedin (muslim holy warriors) might spread their ideas to other Soviet Muslim republics. 3. Soviets wanted control of the Strait of Hormuz through which passes much of the world’s oil. Similar to Vietnam • • • • • • • 120,000 Soviet troops sent 15,000 died No end in sight Morale and drug problems Government told people little Afghans received arms from US Soviets pull out in 1989 Why did communism collapse? • Doomed from the start? (No incentive for new ideas) • Mikhail Gorbachev’s reforms – Last Soviet leader – Glasnost: greater freedom of speech – Perestroika: Economic restructuring – Soviet Union collapsed Boris Yeltsin • Won Russian election • 1st President of Russia • Brought democracy back to Russia…for awhile Vladimir Putin Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)
