UN General Assembly calls for Soviet troop withdrawal from Afghanistan

Chinese forces crossed into Vietnam after months of worsening relations. The USSR condemned the attack and supported Vietnam under their 1978 treaty, while Vietnamese communities faced a devastating...

The agreement set limits on strategic nuclear delivery systems, though the U.S. Senate never ratified it. Arms control addressed superpower arsenals while leaving the wider militarized order intact.

Afghan President Nur Muhammad Taraki was critically injured in an internal power struggle, and Hafizullah Amin consolidated control. The episode reflects factional conflict within Afghanistan’s ruling...

Soviet forces began a large-scale deployment into Afghanistan in late December. Moscow described the move as assistance requested by Kabul; it escalated an Afghan conflict into a foreign...

Soviet forces assaulted government sites in Kabul, killed Hafizullah Amin, and installed Babrak Karmal. The intervention intensified resistance and displacement; Afghans were political actors, not a...

President Carter publicly called for the Games to be moved or boycotted unless Soviet forces left Afghanistan. The decision linked sport to the intervention and placed athletes in the middle of a...

The Games opened with many countries absent or represented under alternative flags after the Afghanistan invasion. Soviet organizers staged a global spectacle, while the boycott highlighted the...

Workers at the Lenin Shipyard struck after Anna Walentynowicz was dismissed, building on earlier labor protests and local grievances. The strike committee connected workplace demands with political...

The agreement accepted independent self-governing trade unions and a right to strike, alongside other demands. Polish workers shaped the settlement through collective action; Moscow’s regional power...

Delegates from workplace committees agreed to form the national union Solidarność. It became a mass organization rooted in Polish workers and civil society, challenging one-party rule without being...