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Agenda. Timeline Review Proxy Wars Notes Nuclear Arms Race (Intro) 13 Days Quiz next Class. Objectives. Explain how the United States and the Soviet Union got around fighting a war. . Proxy Wars. Soviet Union and U.S. never fought directly.

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  1. Agenda • Timeline Review • Proxy Wars • Notes • Nuclear Arms Race(Intro) • 13 Days • Quiz next Class

  2. Objectives • Explain how the United States and the Soviet Union got around fighting a war.

  3. Proxy Wars • Soviet Union and U.S. never fought directly. • Korea and Vietnam were substitutes or “proxies”

  4. America: fought communism at all costs • Sometimes supported dictators

  5. Soviet’s Vietnam • Soviet Union went to war with Afghanistan

  6. What did the U.S. do? • A. Boycott the 1980 Olympics in protest • B. Provide Osama Bin Laden money and weapons to fight Russians. • C. Provide billions of dollars to Afghans to help them defend themselves. • D. Send shoulder-fired antiaircraft missiles to help guerrilla war tactics

  7. What did the U.S. do? • A. Boycott the 1980 Olympics in protest • B. Provide Osama Bin Laden money and weapons to fight Russians. • C. Provide billions of dollars to Afghans to help them defend themselves. • D. Send shoulder-fired antiaircraft missiles to help guerrilla war tactics • E. ALL OF THE ABOVE

  8. Soviet’s Vietnam? • Poor country defeated superpower USSR

  9. Read it up now yah…

  10. Arms Race

  11. 13 Days

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