Détente

Question 1

When did the Cuban Missile crisis end?

Answer 1

1962.

Question 2

What does SALT stand for ?

Answer 2

Strategic Arms Limitation Talks.

Question 3

What year did Nixon realise that the war in Vietnam could not be won and that and that there was need for withdrawal?

Answer 3

1969.

Question 4

What caused Détente for the USSR?

Answer 4

• economic factors
• China
• Multipolar world
• cost of the arms race
• the will for peaceful coexistence and trade
• the danger of M.A.D

Question 5

What caused the Détente for US?

Answer 5

• Situation in Vietnam
• the cost of the arms race
• the danger of M.A.D

Question 6

What caused the Détente for China ?

Answer 6

• The USSR and a multipolar world.

- Both the US and China wanted to achieve balance in their foreign policy to face the URSS.

Question 7

What were the SALT talks?

Answer 7

The SALT talks determined the amount of missiles allowed on each side; 100 each. However, neither of them had ever planned to have that much.

Question 8

How did the Détente affect Europe?

Answer 8

France had trade relations with the USSR. The West accepted the Soviet status quo in Eastern Europe, and the Soviets accepted that Human Rights were of a universal concern.

Question 9

What were the limits to the USSR’s desire for Détente?

Answer 9

During this period, the USSR entered into a phase whereby it moved away from being more of a regional power to being a more global power; it extended it’s influence and aid.

Question 10

When did US troops finally leave Vietnam ?

Answer 10

1973.

Question 11

What was “Watergate” ?

Answer 11

Congress began to restrict the secretive foreign policy activities of Nixon and Kissinger, for example Congress refused to negotiate with the USSR without taking into consideration human rights violations.

Question 12

What was Jimmy Carter’s role in the Détente?

Answer 12

Carter didn’t change much. He followed an inconsistent foreign policy. Carter thought the arms race would ruin the Soviets, and continued to push the Human Rights agenda, while increasing military spending.

Question 13

What began the end (as it were) of the Détente?

Answer 13

1978 - Communists took power in Afghanistan, with no expansionist ideological intention behind it.
Carter was called out on being soft and so he went ape shit.
1997 - The Soviets deployed 20 nukes in Europe
Brezhnev was reliant on drugs by the 70s and was breaking won.

Question 14

When and where did the negotiations open ?

Answer 14

Vienna, in June 1979

Question 15

What happened in 1997 ?

Answer 15

Invasion of Afghanistan and the end of Détente.