why did detente come to an end in 1979
- Created by: Jay Wynter
- Created on: 24-05-13 15:32
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- why did detente come to an end in 1979?
- new pres. Carter 1977
- announced a new nuclear project - the USA's largest governmen funded construction project of all time
- US public didnt like detente - they saw it as an amoral policy which had allowed sov influence to grow unchallenged
- SALT 2 singed 1979 exposed tensions in the US gov between minority who were committed to detente and majority who wanted US to be harder against USSR
- Afghanistan 1979
- brezhnev saw the invasion of afghan as maintaining hes hold in the middle east rather than expansion
- US saw russians as expanding
- sov. violations of agreements met at Helsinki
- as a result of the invasion- US congress refused to ratify SALT 2 treaty
- new pres. Carter 1977
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