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President Richard Nixon orders an invasion of Cambodia, expanding the war in Vietnam. Millions of protesters march across the U.S. University campuses, and are shut down by student strikes. Four protesters at Kent State University in Ohio are killed by National Guard troops.
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This agreement was agreed on September 3, 1971 by the US, UK, Soviet Union, and France.
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The Moscow Summit: meeting between President Richard M. Nixon and General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev.
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Brezhnev-Nixon Meeting in the United States: The two leaders signed nine accords:
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Moscow Summit: Nixon and Brezhnev discussed arms control and several bilateral issues. They signed a protocol limiting each side to one Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) site apiece, instead of the two allowed in the 1972 ABM Treaty, and a Threshold Test Ban Treaty that limited the size of underground nuclear weapons tests.
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Apollo-Soyuz Mission: The United States and the Soviet Union conducted the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, a joint space effort culminating with a linking of the two crafts.
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After 22 years, the Southeast Asia Treaty Organization concluded its final military use and shut down. SEATO played an important role in America’s Cold War policies in Asia, but the Vietnam War destroyed its unity.
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Nuclear proliferation pact that controls the spread of nuclear weapons is signed by 15 countries, including the U.S. and USSR. Treaty on the NonProliferation of Nuclear weapons which was a landmark international treaty.
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The Hot Line agreement had with details of how to operate, equipment, and different costs to make two satellites between the US and the Soviet Union. The agreement was eventually signed in 1971, but actually came to play when two satellite communications circuits became in use in 1978.
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The Soviet-Afghanistan war was fought between Afghanistan rebels called Mujahideen and the Soviet supported Afghanistan government. The US supported the Afghanistan rebels in order to try and overthrow the communist government and to prevent the spread communism.
