causes of detente
- Created by: Jay Wynter
- Created on: 24-05-13 11:44
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- causes and achievement of detente
- fear of war
- cuban mi**ile crisis 1962
- US economic
- inflation reached 6% in 1970
- unemployement rose to more than 5% in 1970s
- ostpolitik
- opened channels between east and west in europe
- Vietnam - detente would mean nixon could withdraw from vietnam
- (because USSR had supported the vietcong since Brezhnev came to power in 1964)
- ki**inger'** realpolitik
- realpolitik meant the US maintaining realisitc goals in their dealings with the USSR and China rather than pursueing an ideological struggle between capitalism and communism
- USSR economic
- detente allowed ru**ian leaders to ease their economic problems by reducing defence spending and encouraging loans and trade from the west
- USSR
- Chinese and US relations threatened anti-soviet alliance
- US 28,200 nuclear warheads compared to USSR 11,000
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