1980
U.S.-Russia detente ends



On this day in 1980, in a strong reaction to the December 1979 Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, President Jimmy Carter asks the Senate to postpone action on the SALT II nuclear weapons treaty and recalls the U.S. ambassador to Moscow. These actions sent a message that the age of detente and the friendlier diplomatic and economic relations that were established between the United States and Soviet Union during President Richard Nixons administration (1969-74) had ended.

Carter feared that the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, in which an estimated 30,000 combat troops entered that nation and established a puppet government, would threaten the stability of strategic neighboring countries such as Iran and Pakistan and could lead to the USSR gaining control over much of the worlds oil supplies. The Soviet actions were labeled a serious threat to peace by the White House.

Carter asked the Senate to shelve ratification talks on SALT II, the nuclear arms treaty that he and Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev had already signed, and the president called U.S. ambassador to Moscow Thomas J. Watson back to Washington for consultation, in an effort to let the Kremlin know that military intervention in Afghanistan was unacceptable.

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neat

World War 1 was from July 28, 1914 November 11, 1918.

Not 1905.

True, however there are typically events and escalating tensions that occur long before any official declaration of war. In any event, I didn't write the thing.




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