The 1976 presidential election

Question 1

What did the 1976 USA presidential election witness?

Answer 1

Renewed criticism of detente

Question 2

What did the Democrats argue about the Helsinki Accords?

Answer 2

They were largely meaningless as EE countries were refusing to honour the sections of the agreement dealing with human rights

Question 3

What did the Democrats point to to show how meaningless the Helsinki Accords were?

Answer 3

Pointed to the KGB’s suppression of Yuri Orlov’s Helsinki monitoring group in 1976. The group was closed down after it exposed non-compliance with the Helsinki Accords

Question 4

What did Democrats argue about Kissinger’s Realpolitik?

Answer 4

It had failed to gain the USA supremacy in the CW, as the SALT 1 Treaty allowed the USSR to retain a bigger nuclear arsenal than the USA

Question 5

What did the academic Richard Pipes argue about detente?

Answer 5

It was being undermined by the SU, as it was arming nationalist to fight against US interests in the Third World

Question 6

Give an example that shows the unpopularity of detente?

Answer 6

So unpopular that Gerald Ford’s advisors told him not to refer to the policy during the 1976 election