notes
Detente notes
- Nixon elected 37th president in 1968
- promised end of war
- pulled troops out but increased bombing campaigns
- implemented
- Began a policy of Detente
- Resigned after Watergate scandal 1972
Detente notes
- 1970's least amount of tention between USSR
- Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (limit spread of nuclear weapons China and France did not sign it)
- 1972 nations competing with sports
- Ostpolitik East and West Germany talked about unification
- critisem from both sides
- The Helsinki Accords 1975 (agree to adress human rights issues, most important free movement between boarders)
- USSR lots of human rights violations
- SALT 1972
- SALT 1979
- Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
- USSR invades Afghanistan
- US funds the Afghanistan troops
- 1980 Ronald Reagan came into power said they are evil empire
summary
Dente events were event that had a positive effect on the relationship between the USSR and the US.
quotes
"Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines."-Nixon
sugestive question
What if there were no Dente events?
Dente events were event that had a positive effect on the relationship between the USSR and the US.
quotes
"Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines."-Nixon
sugestive question
What if there were no Dente events?