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Unit 8
Grades 9-10
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The Ogaden War: When the Soviet Union Switched Sides in the Middle of the Fighting

By the mid-1970s, both Ethiopia and Somalia had, independently, become self-declared Marxist states allied with the Soviet Union, Ethiopia following the 1974 revolution that deposed Emperor Haile Selassie and installed a military council called the Derg, eventually led by…

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