Nixon-Brezhnev Summits
Mindmap of the Nixon/Ford-Brezhnev Summits and any agreements agreed at each of them.
- Created by: Sam Brewer
- Created on: 07-05-13 20:02
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- The Nixon- Brezhnev Summits and Agreements
- Moscow, May 1972
- Finalised the SALT Agreement
- Expanded co-operation in science, technology, environment and health
- Set out the 'Basic Principles Agreement'
- 12 principles setting out how the two nations would deal with one another
- One of the key problems of the principles was that they weren't legally biinding
- As long as the nuclear age continues the two must exist in a state of peaceful coexistance
- Be prepared to solve dispute by peaceful means so as to avoid military confrontation and each side should reject the idea of gaining at the others expense
- Promote conditions in which all countries could live in peace
- Seen as fundamental to détente by the USSR
- 12 principles setting out how the two nations would deal with one another
- Washington, June 1973
- Agreements on agriculture, cultural exchanges and transport
- Brezhnev wanted to stop the USA forming a military alliance with China
- Agreement on the Prevention of Nuclear War
- Designed to remove the danger of nuclear war
- Agreed commitment to avoid military confrontation
- Both nations had reservations about the agreement
- Soviets saw the agreement as a restriction on US global power
- Americans saw the agreement as a way of keeping the Soviets committed to détente.
- June-July 1974
- Opportunity to develop SALT II agreement
- Both sides agreed to reduce the number of anti-ballistic missile sites
- Couldn't agree on the level of MIRV's
- 10 year agreement on economic, industrial and technical cooperation
- Consular links set up.
- Vladivostok Accord, November 1974
- Ford replaced Nixon after the Watergate Scandal
- Partial agreements made on the number of strategic missile launchers and MIRVs
- 10 year plan towards SALT II was agreed
- Soviets agreed to equal amounts of ICBM launchers and SLBM launchers
- Moscow, May 1972
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