1980 Olympics Research Paper

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The 1980 Summer Olympics were hosted by the Soviet Union in Moscow, it included 5179 athletes, 80 countries and 203 events. The Olympics games was held amidst the Cold War which lead to the United States of America and other allies boycotting the 1980 Moscow Olympic games. President Jimmy Carter announces to the U.S. that it will not attend the Olympic Games scheduled to take place in Moscow that summer. The announcement came after the Soviet Union failed to comply with Carter’s February 20, 1980, deadline to withdraw its troops from Afghanistan. The Soviet military invaded Afghanistan in 1979 to reinforce the country’s communist regime against Islamic rebel forces. President Carter rebuked the Soviet Union, specifically Premier Leonid Brezhnev,