Jimmy Carter led an Olympics boycott in protest of the Soviet invasion of Iran.
In response to the invasion , Carter ended dtente , escalated the Cold War , and led the international boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow .	dtente	dtente	Cold War	Cold War	international boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics	1980 Summer Olympics boycott	Moscow	Moscow
The 1980 Summer Olympics boycott was one part of a number of actions initiated by the United States to protest the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan .	Soviet invasion of Afghanistan	SovietAfghan War	1980 Summer Olympics	1980 Summer Olympics
