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Soviet-Afghan war:
The Soviet intervention in Afghanistan in 1979 cooled relations between the two superpowers and put an end to the period of détente that had started in the 1960s. It was a direct military intervention by one of them in a regional conflict, not a war fought by a proxy. It elicited an American reaction which was the formation, training and support of an anti-Soviet guerrilla made up of local Islamic fighters, the Mujahedeen. Afghanistan was a neighbor of Pakistan - an American ally - and it bordered the Soviet Union.
Iran-Contra affair:
Given the refusal of the US Congress to continue to finance the Contras who fought against the leftist, Soviet-friendly, Cuban-supported Sandinista regime in Nicaragua, some Ronald Reagan administration officers looked for ways to get financing, some of them were not legal. The affair didn´t have a major impact on the overall state of US-Soviet relations, because the main tensions were in Europe. Besides, those were the years of dialogue and negotiations with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Reagan and Gorbachev held some summits and signed a treaty aimed at reducing some types of nuclear weapons. Nicaragua was never a strategic concern for the Soviets, despite deep Cuban involvement.
Iran got weapons for its 8-year war with the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein. Some reports suggested the release of American hostages kidnapped by militias related to Iran in the Middle East was achieved as an exchange for weapons, but the US government denied it.
For Nicaragua, it meant the continuation of the war between the Sandinista army and the Contra guerrillas based in Honduras. The US administration kept supporting them. The war seriously harmed the Nicaraguan economy and put much pressure on the Sandinista revolution and society.
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10- The British government granted the company a monopoly on the importation and sale of tea in the colonies. The colonists had never accepted the constitutionality of the duty on tea, and the Tea Act rekindled their opposition to it.
14- I do not know
The reform movements that arose during the antebellum period in America focused on specific issues: temperance, abolishing imprisonment for debt, pacifism, antislavery, abolishing capital punishment, amelioration of prison conditions (with prison's purpose reconceived as rehabilitation rather than punishment), the humane treatment of animals, the humane and just treatment of Native Americans, the establishment of public institutions for the care of the destitute, orphans, blind, and mentally ill, the establishment of public schools, the abolition of tobacco use, vegetarianism, health reform, homeopathic medicine, woman's rights (including, at first, especially the establishment of a woman's right to own property apart from her husband and her right to sue for divorce), and the amelioration of labor conditions (including higher pay, the right to form unions, the right to strike, and the demand for limits on the number of work hours, and safe working conditions).
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It was an oil-exporting nation.
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During the 1980s, the Soviet Union saw a severe downturn in oil prices. This, in turn, led to a decrease in production. Between 1988 and 1995, the oil production of the nation dropped by almost 50%. During this time period, oil was one of the main exports of the Soviet Union, which meant that these fluctuations in price greatly damaged its economy. Moreover, the damage to the economy weakened the nation, allowing for the change of regime to take place.
