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Title: The Invasion in Afghanistan and Vietnam


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The Invasion in Afghanistan and Vietnam
  • By Catharina Vaagen and Ryan Sedlacek

2
Thesis
  • The Invasion in Vietnam and Afghanistan both
    negatively effected the U.S. and the Soviet Union
    stability

3
Vietnam War 1945-1975
4
Vietnam War
  • Conflict between the Democratic Republic of
    Vietnam (North) against the Republic of
    Vietnam(South)
  • North Vietnam allied with the Communists
  • Soviet Union and China
  • South Vietnam and its allies
  • The United States

5
Communist Threat
  • Vietnam would elect a Communist government
  • Under Ho Chi Minh
  • either freely or with force
  • U.S. allied with South Vietnam
  • to stop communism

Ho Chi Minh
6
U.S. involvement
  • U.S. involved 1965-1973

7
Political effects
  • American publics doubt in President Johnson
  • Lack of public support and belief in the
    governments institution
  • Vietnam syndrome

8
The Vietnam War could have been handled
differently
  • U.S. could have withdrawn from the war
  • Political stability did not exist
  • No military advisors to South Vietnam
  • No U.S. support and military aid to South
    Vietnamese
  • U.S. withdrawal would have
  • Improved credibility
  • Saved the strength for more defensible stands

9
Cost of the War
  • The United States did not save South Vietnam from
    communism
  • US dead 58,226
  • Civilian (total Vietnamese) 24 million
  • 347 billion dollars

10
Afghanistan (1979)
Map of Afghanistan and its surrounding countries
11
The Invasion
  • In 1979- the USSR took control of the Afghan
    capital, Kabul
  • Landed airborne troops
  • Motorized rifle companies linked up with the
    airborne troops
  • The amount of troops in Afghanistan increased

12
Soviets in Afghanistan
  • Guerilla Fighting
  • Hafizulla Amin was the leader in Afghanistan
  • He was thought to have been a CIA officer by
    Soviets
  • Mujahideen Forces resisted Soviet takeover

A Soviet soldier on guard in Afghanistan
13
Economic Effects
  • Could not support country
  • Could not support troops
  • Impossible to stay with U.S.A. in Arms Race
  • Could not keep up in Space Race

14
Political Effects
  • Provinces losing political stability. (Chechnya)
  • People in Chechnya believed Soviets hated Islam
  • Mainland has new, reformed dictator, Mikhail
    Gorbachev
  • Glasnost and Perestroika new terms for the way
    the government will act

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What could have been Avoided?
  • Economic Depression among the people
  • Political Uprisings in several of the surrounding
    countries
  • United States gaining power with Arms Race and
    Space Race
  • Fall of the Soviet Union

16
Ideals
  • Economy
  • Domestic Tranquility
  • Freedom (Poland, Czechoslovakia, Belarus,
    Yugoslavia, Ukraine)

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Work Cited
  • "Soviet Influence in the Middle East." History in
    Dispute, Vol. 6 The Cold War, Second Series.
    Edited by Dennis E. Showalter and Paul DuQuenoy.
    St. James Press, 2000. Reproduced in History
    Resource Center. Farmington Hills, MI Gale
    Group. http//galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/HistRC
    /
  • "Afghanistan Invaded by Soviets, December 24,
    1979December 27, 1979." DISCovering World
    History. Gale Research, 1997. Reproduced in
    History Resource Center. Farmington Hills, MI
    Gale Group. http//galenet.galegroup.com/servlet/H
    istRC/
  • "U.S. Military Intervention in Vietnam." History
    in Dispute, Vol. 1 The Cold War First Series.
    Benjamin Frankel, ed. St. James Press, 2000.
    Reproduced in History Resource Center. Farmington
    Hills, MI Gale Group. http//galenet.galegroup.co
    m/servlet/HistRC/
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