Detente Flashcards
What wasn’t banned in SALT I and SALT II?
anti-satellite weapons or on long range bombers
How many ICBM’s were reduced?
ICBMS – 5700 - 2500 – Nixon had intended – selfish concessions
Why was the basic agreement a failure and who was it endorsed by?
was vague – endorsed by Brezhnev and Carter.
What was the basic agreement?
code of conduct for future relations
How long did SALT I last for?
5 years
What did SALT II allow both sides to do?
Keep on build new advanced weapons
What didn’t SALT II prevent?
SALT II did nothing to prevent the deployment of SS 20.
What are the main themes of Detente?
Limitations of arms talks
Superpower rivalry in the Third World
Issue of Human rights
Strength of Summit diplomacy and dialogue.
Basket One:
Recognising the Eastern Bloc
Basket two:
Trade and scientific cooperation.
What two things did SALT I achieve?
Limited deployment of ABMs
Freeze of ICBMs and SLBMs
What two things did SALT II achieve?
Limited both sides to 2400 launchers
What was Chapter 77?
committees on Chapter 77 were set up to check Soviet compliance
What did the USSR fear about basket three
USSR feared such freedoms would undermine communist rule in the Soviet Union.
What did the USSR deny?
Denied emigration of soviet – Jews to USA and Israel
What did the denial of emigration Jews lead to by the US?
Led to the Jackson – Vinek Amendment (1975), which cut American trade with the USSR –
What was undermined due to the Jackson Vinek Amendment?
Basket two
What did Brezhenvev call the Jackson Vinek Amendment?
“Western interference”
What did Brezhnev believe Détente was separate to?
Brezhnev believed Détente was separate from the communist cause of expansionism.
What did Brezhnev see the Third World as?
Brezhnev saw the Third world as a legitimate area for Soviet attempts to develop client states and was determined to keep this strategy separate from arms control.
What did the West believe about SU and its Third World pursuits?
The west believed that the USSR was still aggressively expansionist and disregarding of the principles of détente
Give an example (not Afghanistan) about SU domination in Third World
the support for MPLA in Angolan Civil War (1975)
What destroyed Detente?
Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
