Detente

Question 1

What wasn’t banned in SALT I and SALT II?

Answer 1

anti-satellite weapons or on long range bombers

Question 2

How many ICBM’s were reduced?

Answer 2

ICBMS – 5700 - 2500 – Nixon had intended – selfish concessions

Question 3

Why was the basic agreement a failure and who was it endorsed by?

Answer 3

was vague – endorsed by Brezhnev and Carter.

Question 4

What was the basic agreement?

Answer 4

code of conduct for future relations

Question 5

How long did SALT I last for?

Answer 5

5 years

Question 6

What did SALT II allow both sides to do?

Answer 6

Keep on build new advanced weapons

Question 7

What didn’t SALT II prevent?

Answer 7

SALT II did nothing to prevent the deployment of SS 20.

Question 8

What are the main themes of Detente?

Answer 8

Limitations of arms talks
Superpower rivalry in the Third World
Issue of Human rights
Strength of Summit diplomacy and dialogue.

Question 9

Basket One:

Answer 9

Recognising the Eastern Bloc

Question 10

Basket two:

Answer 10

Trade and scientific cooperation.

Question 11

What two things did SALT I achieve?

Answer 11

Limited deployment of ABMs

Freeze of ICBMs and SLBMs

Question 12

What two things did SALT II achieve?

Answer 12

Limited both sides to 2400 launchers

Question 13

What was Chapter 77?

Answer 13

committees on Chapter 77 were set up to check Soviet compliance

Question 14

What did the USSR fear about basket three

Answer 14

USSR feared such freedoms would undermine communist rule in the Soviet Union.

Question 15

What did the USSR deny?

Answer 15

Denied emigration of soviet – Jews to USA and Israel

Question 16

What did the denial of emigration Jews lead to by the US?

Answer 16

Led to the Jackson – Vinek Amendment (1975), which cut American trade with the USSR –

Question 17

What was undermined due to the Jackson Vinek Amendment?

Answer 17

Basket two

Question 18

What did Brezhenvev call the Jackson Vinek Amendment?

Answer 18

“Western interference”

Question 19

What did Brezhnev believe Détente was separate to?

Answer 19

Brezhnev believed Détente was separate from the communist cause of expansionism.

Question 20

What did Brezhnev see the Third World as?

Answer 20

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.

Question 21

What did the West believe about SU and its Third World pursuits?

Answer 21

The west believed that the USSR was still aggressively expansionist and disregarding of the principles of détente

Question 22

Give an example (not Afghanistan) about SU domination in Third World

Answer 22

the support for MPLA in Angolan Civil War (1975)

Question 23

What destroyed Detente?

Answer 23

Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.