Key Events

SOURCES: http://www.un.org/en/peacekeeping/missions/past/ungomap/background.html

http://www.newsfollowup.com/us_israel_saudi_arabaia_created_al_qaeda_afghanistan_mujahideen_operation_cyclone.htm

• • More than 100,000 soviet troops deployed eventually to fight the afghans

  • The Security Council debate about the issue in 1980 failed to come up with a resolution

  • Operation Cyclone was the code name for the United States Central Intelligence Agency Program

  • Many people believed when the soviet forces crossed into Afghanistan in December 1979, they thought they were trying to expand their borders

  • Soviet Troops pulled out of the war on February 15, 1989 and they suffered a lost of 14,000 killed and 50,000 wounded