motivations for detente
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- Created on: 12-12-19 09:05
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- Motivations for Detente
- USA
- lost their authority after vietnam
- needed detente to establish their credentials
- economy was badly hit after the Vietnam war
- economies of W.Germany and Japan were expanding at the expense of US economy
- needed communist help to pull out of vietnam with honour
- put human rights on the agenda
- lost their authority after vietnam
- USSR
- economy was stagnating
- so they needed to reduce their spending on nuclear weapons
- needed to trade with west, particularly in grain
- US acceptence of soviet achieving nuclear parity
- economy was stagnating
- Europe
- after Treaty of Rome 1957, this area was much more independent
- france wanted detentes so that they could undermine the superpowers influence in Europe
- european states gain their independence
- Willy Brandt wanted to achieve German reunification
- China
- sought a relationship with USA because they needed Western scientific technological and financial aid
- USA
- FEAR OF NUCLEAR WAR
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