The Start of the Cold War The Cold War was a long drawn out conflict that began in 1947 between the Soviet Union and the United States. The struggle between the two powers had the many parts of the world in disarray. The western nations felt it necessary that the liberated states of Eastern Eur...
Despite their strength in numbers, and (at the time) modern equipment, the Soviet Union had lost too much and was operations were starting to crumble in Afghanistan. ... It was the winter of 1979, Afghanistan was engulfed by a civil war because the Prime Minister, Hafizullah Amin, wanted to lead the country away from its traditional Muslim way of life and set up a more western, modernized country. ... The Russian supply lines where constantly being attacked, and the Soviet Union became very poor, resulting in poor quality military, the Soviet moral and numbers where dwindling. ...
