Transformation of the cold war II
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- Created on: 28-05-18 14:41
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- Transformation of the Cold War II
- SALT 1972
- Strategic Arms Limitations Talk
- Limited the amount of anti ballistic missiles, Inter continental ballistic missiles and submarine launched ballistic missiles
- Basic Principles Agreement
- outline procedures if political tensions increased possibility of nuclear war
- Halted arms race & de-escalated nuclear war threat
- didn't include MIRV's ballistic missiles w/ multiple war head
- Loophole
- relationship US & USSR improved 1968-1972
- Economic condtions
- USSR: living standards didn't improve post WWII
- Investments made in armaments not economy
- Pause in arms race = raise living standards
- Improve economies of eastern European allies
- Discontent rising
- Tension w/ China - post 1969 border conflict
- could cause war
- US formed relations w/ China
- USSR = vulnarable
- Tension w/ China - post 1969 border conflict
- Improved relations w/ US = access western tech
- Discontent rising
- Improve economies of eastern European allies
- Pause in arms race = raise living standards
- Investments made in armaments not economy
- USSR: living standards didn't improve post WWII
- Strategic Arms Limitations Talk
- Détente 1968
- Response to Cuban Missile Crisis
- USA leave Vietnam war (expensive)
- Damaged political image
- Believed all communist countries controlled by Moscow
- Untrue
- Proved by tensions in communist world
- Nixon changed US foreign policy
- Global approach not focused on south east Asia
- Diplomacy
- Western European allies tired of being tied to Washington decisions
- Wished to carve own routes to diplomacy
- West Germany wanted to improve relations with east Germany
- Wished to carve own routes to diplomacy
- Global approach not focused on south east Asia
- Untrue
- Believed all communist countries controlled by Moscow
- unpopular in USA
- Military force could only achieve so much
- Damaged political image
- USSR wanted to reignite stagnant economy
- SALT 1972
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