President Carter announces boycott of Olympic Games in Moscow

Sunday, March 21

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On March 21, 1980, President Jimmy Carter announces that the U.S. will boycott 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…