Detente 1963-79 Flashcards
Cuban Missile Crisis
1962
Partial test ban treaty
1963
Bay of Pigs
1961
K removed from power
China atom bomb
1964
Nixon president (resigned also)
1969-74
Brezhnev Doctrine 1968
Right of USSR to intervene to protect any other communist regime under threat of capitalist forces
Artichoke approach China (removed trade controls/relaxed travel restriction)
Recognition of China
Sinosoviet border clashes - Ussuri river
1969
‘The week that changed the world’ Nixons visit to China (Moscow summit)
Nixon visits Kremlin
Germanies recognised each other
Basic principles
1972
Vietnam
1955-75
Johnson
1963-1969
Gulf of Tonkin resolution
U.S. Destroyer Maddox fired on by N Vietnamese
“To promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia.”
1965
Kennedy president
1961-63
Nixon doctrine 1969
Each country has its own security but the U.S. Would act as an nuclear umbrella
-arming 3rd world States against communism
Hallstein doctrine (WG not recognise EG) and no diplomatic relations with nations who did
1955
Non-Aggression Pact
W. Brant (WG) and USSR
1970