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PDPA leader, Noor Muhammad Taraki takes over as president of Afghanistan after Daud is unseated in a coup. Muhammad Taraki institutes Marxist reforms and forges closer ties with the Soviet Union.
Ethiopia, supported by the Soviet Union and Cuba, take back control over the Ogaden. Refugees flood from Ogaden into Somalia. Somalia breaks ties with the Soviet Union. In the meantime Ethiopia signs a treaty of friendship with the Soviet Union.
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Ogaden crisis.
Ethiopia, supported by the Soviet Union and Cuba, take back control over the Ogaden. Refugees flood from Ogaden into Somalia. Somalia breaks ties with the Soviet Union. In the meantime Ethiopia signs a treaty of friendship with the Soviet Union.
Chamorro, the leader of an opposition group in Nicaragua, is assassinated. His death sparks off public violence and a general strike. The revolt spreads and former moderates join with the FSLN to overthrow the Somoza regime.
Egyptian president Sadat and Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin meet in Camp David in the United States to negotiate peace settlements. Sadat signs the Camp David Accords, which call for Israeli's withdrawal from the Sinai in return for full diplomatic ties with Egypt.
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Camp David Accords
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The Vietnamese, together with the Cambodian Communist rebels, launch an assault on Cambodia. On January 7, 1979, the invading forces occupy Phnom Penh, which the Khmer Rouge leaders had abandoned the day before.
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