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A document related to the Carter Doctrine. The Carter Doctrine was a policy proclaimed by President of the United States Jimmy Carter in his State of the Union Address on January 23, 1980, which stated that the United States would use military force, if necessary, to defend its national interests in the Persian Gulf.
The United States grain embargo against the Soviet Union was enacted by U.S. President Jimmy Carter in January 1980 in response to the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan in December 1979. The embargo remained in effect until US President Ronald Reagan ended it on April 24, 1981. [1]
The 1980 State of the Union address was given by President Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, to a joint session of the 96th United States Congress on January 23, 1980. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Carter addressed the Iran Hostage Crisis and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan : "At this time in Iran, 50 Americans are still held captive ...
After Carter was once again caught off-guard by the Soviet Union's invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, he "responded with increasingly hawkish actions," including "an aggressive national security ...
Carter, who died Sunday in Plains, Georgia at the age of 100, called to boycott the 1980 Olympics because of the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan, and the pressure he exerted on the U.S ...
Against the backdrop of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan in 1979, Carter ordered a boycott by U.S. athletes of the 1980 Summer Olympics that were set to be held in the Soviet Union.
Carter was surprised by the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, as the consensus of the U.S. intelligence community during 1978 and 1979 was that Moscow would not forcefully intervene. [40] CIA officials had tracked the deployment of Soviet soldiers to the Afghan border, but they had not expected the Soviets to launch a full-fledged invasion. [ 41 ]
On December 28, 1979, Carter signed a presidential finding explicitly allowing the CIA to transfer "lethal military equipment either directly or through third countries to the Afghan opponents of the Soviet intervention in Afghanistan" and to arrange "selective training, conducted outside of Afghanistan, in the use of such equipment either ...