Session 7 Flashcards
FROM EUROPEAN INTEGRATION TO DÉTENTE: THE EVOLUTION OF THE COLD WAR IN EUROPE
Strategic Arms Limitation Treaties (SALT)
- 1972 (I), 1979 (II)
- Agreement between the US & the Soviet Union for control of certain nuclear weapons
Detente
- term meaning the reduction of tensions between states
- often refers to the superpower diplomacy btwn Nixon’s inauguration and the Senate’s refusal to ratify II in 1980
Sino-Soviet Split
- process whereby China and the Soviet Union became alienated from each other
- late 1950s - early 1960s
- destroyed the myth of a communist monolith, new diplomatic opportunities
People’s Republic of China (PRC)
- Came into existence in 1949 under Mao Zedong
- official name for mainland China
Third World
- states that were part of neither the developed capitalist world nor the communist bloc
- Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, and South-East Asia
Conference on Security & Co-Operation in Europe (CSCE)
- 1975, signed in Finland by 35 countries, including Soviet Union & US
- protected human rights, co-operation in economic, social & cultural progress
- Succeed by OSCE in 1990 - 55 countries
Protectorates
- territories administered by an imperial state without full annexation taking place
- Delegated powers typically remain in the hands of a local ruler
Fidelistas
- Cuban revolutionaries under Fidel Castro’s leadership
- 1959 - took power from the Batista regime
Bay of Pigs
- 17 April 1961 - unsuccessful invasion of Cuba by Cuban exiles opposed to the Castro regime
- Support of the US government, CIA heavily involved
- By 4/20, most exiles were killed or captured
- First major foreign policy act by the Kennedy administration, provoked anti-American demonstrations in Latin America & Europe
U-2 Spy Planes
- high-altitude aircraft used to fly over Soviet & other hostile territories
- Spotted the ballistic missile sites under construction in Cuba - formed ExCom to discuss the crisis situation
- Kennedy announced publicly on Oct 22, 1962
Inter-continental ballistic missiles (ICBMs)
- Any supersonic missile, range over 6,500 km
- Soviet-American SALT I - agreed on number each side could have
Removal of the Missiles
27 Oct 1962 - agreement that Soviet missiles would be removed from Cuba and US would remove theirs from Turkey
Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)
- an American doctrine of reciprocal deterrence resting on the United States and Soviet Union each being able to inflict unacceptable damage on the other in retaliation for a nuclear attack
Limited Test Ban Treaty
- 1963, signed by Britain, the Soviet Union and the US
- committing to halt atmospheric tests of nuclear weapons - 96 additional nations signed
Massive retaliation
- a strategy of military counter-attack prevalent in the US during the Eisenhower administration
- the US threatened to react to any type of military offensive by the Soviets or the Chinese with the use of nuclear weapons
- Began to lose credibility as the Soviets developed nuclear capability in the late 1950s
German Democratic Republic (GDR)
- Created 1949, former Soviet occupation zone (East Germany)
- Collapsed 1989, merged in 1990 with FRG
Ostpolitik
- West German policy towards the Soviet Union & Eastern Europe in the 1960s & 1970s - Brandt
- aimed at reducing tensions with the ultimate hope of negotiating the peaceful unification of Germany
Peaceful co-existence
- coined by Trotsky
- condition when there are pacific relations between states with differing social systems & competition takes place in fields other than war
- vital to Soviet diplomacy after Stalin’s death
Prague Spring
- brief period of liberal reforms attempted by the government of Dubcek in 1968
- period ended with the invasion by Soviet-led Warsaw Pact military forces
Brezhnev Doctrine
- Nov 1968
- Affirming the right of the Soviet Union to intervene in the affairs of communist countries in order to protect communism
Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty
- An agreement between the US and the USSR signed on 26 May 1972
- limited number of ABM deployment areas, launchers & interceptors
apartheid
- The Afrikaans word for racial segregation
- 1948-1990 - was the ideology of the Nationalist Party in South Africa
mujahedeen
- term used for the Muslim guerillas who fought against the Soviets in Afghanistan in 1979-89
- US was a major supported of the Islamist rebels, provide major assistance