dec 24, 1979 - The Soviet Union invades Afghanistan

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"SALT II finally produced a complex treaty signed at Vienna in June 1979…the senate delayed consideration of the SALT II treaty, and it was still languishing in that body in December 1979 when NATO agreed to the Pershing II and cruise missile deployments – only to have the Soviet Union respond by invading Afghanistan. The sequence of events that led it to do so can be traced back to another agreement reached at the 1972 Moscow Summit of ‘Basic Principle”…Nixon and Brexhnev promised that their countries would seek to avoid “efforts to obtain unilateral advantage at the expense of the other” (Gaddis 2006, p. 203).

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