Detente
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- Detente
- SUPERPOWER DETENTE
- Moscow Summit, May 1972
- ABM treaty and Interim Agreement on the Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms were finalised
- limited to 2 fields of ABMs, one set up around the capital and the other to protect ICBMs
- less ICBMs for USA
- Less SLBMs for USA
- more strategic bombers for USA
- Basic Principles
- impact of summit
- recognised state parity, the foundation of detente for the USSR
- too many wide ranging lasting agreements was required
- ABM treaty and Interim Agreement on the Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms were finalised
- Vladivostok Summit, Nov 1972
- problems implementing SALT II
- US & USSR disagree on what Surface-to-air missiles are
- USSR- cruise missiles
- USA- ballistic missiles
- Kissenger faced great criticism/ opposition
- Brezhnev rejected the new proposals
- US & USSR disagree on what Surface-to-air missiles are
- what did Carter propose?
- aimed to achieve more ambiguous SALT II
- substantially reducing the levels of heavy ICBMs
- new limitations on testing
- ban on new typesof ICBMs
- why was Brezhnev not happy
- viewed this agreement as binding
- carter was acting in an unacceptable manner
- disproportinate reduction of soviet arms
- feeling that USA was moving away from detente
- problems implementing SALT II
- Vienna Summit, June 1979
- limit stategic offensive arms to 2250 by 1981 and reduce excess
- ICBMs & SLBMs limited to 2400
- ICBMs & SLBMs equippe with MIRVs and ASMBs with MIRVs not to exceed 1200
- Moscow Summit, May 1972
- EUROPEAN DETENTE
- Treaty of Moscow, 1970
- mutual agreement between West Germany and USSR
- abandoned dreams of reunification
- recognition of borders
- both USSR and Germany are happy
- abandonment of the Hallstein Doctrine
- mutual agreement between West Germany and USSR
- Treaty of Warsaw, 1970
- formal recognition of Oder-Neisse line as border of Poland and Germany
- Four Power Agreement, 1971
- USA, USSR, France, Britain
- recognition between 4 powers of 2 states within one German nation
- only possible due to Ulbricht being replaced by Honecker
- legal basis given to travel access routs from west Germany to west Berlin
- Basic Treaty, 1972
- Hallstein Doctrine was redundant
- West Germany accepts existence of East Germany as seperate state
- allowed East Germany to be recognised by other European powers
- Helsinki Accords, 1975
- 35 participating countries
- Basket 1
- borders could not be altered by force
- official recognition of European borders
- Basket 2
- break down cultural barriers in the Cold War divide
- incrreased trade between East & West
- Basket 3
- human rights and individual freedom
- encourage the freer movement of people, information, ideas
- West hoped it would undermine Soviet Control
- Position of the US
- did not want to accecpt the political status quo in Eastern Europe
- greater cooperation between east and west put NATO at risk
- Position of the USSR
- wanted post-war borders recognised
- more interested in Basket 1&2 but was prepared to sign the agreement despite Basket 3
- Treaty of Moscow, 1970
- IMPROVED RELATIONS WITH CHINA
- meetings and visits
- 1971 American Table Tennis team were invited to China
- 1971 Kissenger visited Beijing for talks with Zhou
- Feb 1972 Nixon visited China and condemned Soviet Imperialism
- Shanghai Communique
- Taiwan and UN issue
- USA should cease to aid Taiwan military
- USA acknowledged Taiwan was part of China
- 1971 Taiwan expelled from security council of UN
- by 1978 the USA had given diplomatic recognition to communist regime in China
- Trade and economic ties
- trade and travel restrictions were relaxed
- trade developed from $5 million to $500 million
- meetings and visits
- SUPERPOWER DETENTE
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