Detente
- Created by: Himee Senanayake
- Created on: 07-06-18 22:16
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- Detente
- Salt 1
- An important agreement between the USA and USSR during detente
- signed in May 1972
- Treaty was the rsult of difficult negotiations between the USSR and USA
- 1) The Anti- Ballistic Missile Treaty
- each site can have a maximum of 100 missiles
- 2) The Interim Treaty
- each country could only have 1054 ICBMs and 740 SLBMs
- 3) The Basic Principles
- avoid nuclear war
- Nuclear war could not be avoided
- Salt 1 had significant impact on international relations between the USSR and USA
- wanted to read agreement
- The Helsinki Accords 1975
- Human rights
- Respect human rights
- Individual freedoms
- Free speech, religion and movement across Europe
- International co-operation
- work for closer relations between Western and Soviet countries
- trade agreements/ technology exchanges
- Joint space mission
- European borders
- inviolable
- cannot be altered by force
- Human rights
- Detente
- needed to avoid nuclear war
- Americans wanted the USA to take less action in international affairs
- The USA wanted to follow a policy of detente in 1968 because Richard Nixon was elected president
- wanted to take America out of the Vietnam war
- $60,000
- soldiers died
- Both wanted detente because chancellor of West Germany wanted to improve relations between them
- USSR wanted to follow detente because they were faced with economic problems
- spend less money on weapons and devote money to improving life
- improve relations with the USA
- Salt 2
- President Carter (USA) and President Brezhnev (USSR) signed an agreement
- restrictions on missile launchers and strategic bombers
- ban on testing new ICBMs
- restrictions on missile launchers and strategic bombers
- 1) The USA believed that the USSR government could not be trusted
- 2) November 1979 - Islamic militants captured the American embassy in Tehran
- 3) Zbigniew Brezeinski called for a stronger stance to be taken against the USSR
- 4) December 1979 USSR invaded Afghanistan and ended detente
- President Carter (USA) and President Brezhnev (USSR) signed an agreement
- Salt 1
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