1. Follow Up (5mins) Get out your “Conflict of the Cold War Notes”
Circle “Key Terms”
Highlight “Main Ideas”
Write questions on the left side
Write your 2-3 sentence summary

2. Yes, that Afghanistan Workbook Pg. 24
The Afghan Crisis
Yes, that Afghanistan
Workbook Pg. 24

3. Essential Question
How did the Afghan Crisis help to weaken the Soviet Union and turn the Cold War?

4. Background Material on Detente
With your partner
Read front page ONLY “
Answer questions 1-4

5. The Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
With your partner
Answer Question 5
Read 2nd page
Underline key pieces of information that help you to decide whether or not your country should get involved in the Afghan Crisis.

6. Vocab
USSR
Marxist
Coup
Acute
Apparatus
The West

8. Advisors pg. 25 Directions
Imagine that it’s 1979 and you’re a diplomatic adviser to the Soviet or American government. Your job is to review all of the developments you’ve just read and to make an argument to the leader of your nation advising what your government and military should do to respond to these increasing tensions.
Make sure to provide at least 3 details to support your argument.

9. Advisor Share Out
1. Stand Up and find a partner from the opposite country as you.
Discuss what you chose to do and why.
2. Have representative from each country share their thoughts about what they advised their leader to do.

10. The War Ends 1979: Soviets invade Afghanistan
Wanted a gateway to invade the Middle East
U.S. doesn’t want Soviets to win
Give arms and support to Islamic rebels (Mujahedeen)
Guerilla fighters who could not be stopped
Jihad for rebels
Soviet Union leaves in 1989 without victory

11. Results of the War Afghanistan Soviet Union
A generation of Afghan children orphaned by the war with little guidance, education or support.
Made recruiting ground for Taliban and Al Qaeda
Soviet Union
Cost the USSR billions of $$$ and thousands of troops
Countries no longer saw the Soviets as invincible
Financial losses helped lead to the end of the USSR
“Soviet version of Vietnam”