Detente 1963-79 Flashcards

1
Q

Cuban Missile Crisis

A

1962

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2
Q

Partial test ban treaty

A

1963

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3
Q

Bay of Pigs

A

1961

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4
Q

K removed from power

China atom bomb

A

1964

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5
Q

Nixon president (resigned also)

A

1969-74

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6
Q

Brezhnev Doctrine 1968

A

Right of USSR to intervene to protect any other communist regime under threat of capitalist forces

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7
Q

Artichoke approach China (removed trade controls/relaxed travel restriction)
Recognition of China
Sinosoviet border clashes - Ussuri river

A

1969

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8
Q

‘The week that changed the world’ Nixons visit to China (Moscow summit)
Nixon visits Kremlin
Germanies recognised each other
Basic principles

A

1972

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9
Q

Vietnam

A

1955-75

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10
Q

Johnson

A

1963-1969

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11
Q

Gulf of Tonkin resolution

U.S. Destroyer Maddox fired on by N Vietnamese

A

“To promote the maintenance of international peace and security in southeast Asia.”

1965

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12
Q

Kennedy president

A

1961-63

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13
Q

Nixon doctrine 1969

A

Each country has its own security but the U.S. Would act as an nuclear umbrella
-arming 3rd world States against communism

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14
Q
Hallstein doctrine
(WG not recognise EG) and no diplomatic relations with nations who did
A

1955

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15
Q

Non-Aggression Pact

W. Brant (WG) and USSR

A

1970

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16
Q

Berlin agreement

Quadripartite

A

1971

17
Q

Helsinki accords

A

1973-75

18
Q

SALT I SALT II

Nixon/Brezhnev

A

1969-72 (ABM treaty 1972)

1979

19
Q

Glassboro Conference
Kosygin (USSR prime minister) and Johnson
Discussed ME/’nam = no outcome

A

1967

20
Q

Czech ‘Prague spring’

Nuclear nonproliferation

A

1968

21
Q

Washington Conference

A

1973

22
Q

Vladivostok accord

Ford/Brezhnev

A

1974

23
Q

Ford

A

1974-77

24
Q

Watergate scandal

A

1972

Nixon impeachment 1974

25
Q

Palomares incident

4 hydrogen bombs fell safety devices worked but radiation leaked

A

1966

26
Q

Angola

Alvor Accords

A

1975-76

Transitional government

27
Q

Charter77

A

1977

28
Q

Afghanistan

Carter installs listening device on USSR border (in China)

A

1979

29
Q

U.S.-Sino relations normalised

Carter developed ‘China card’ to counter USSR/Cuban activities in Africa

A

1978

30
Q

Ostpolitik

Normalisation between E/W Germany

A

1969