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Growing Anti-American Sentiment
Bcs of Vietnam War -
Economic State
- USSR economy 1/6th of the USA's
- Had to reduce military spending
- Low yield and harvest failure, buy cheap grain from west
- Want access to superior Western technology
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Aims
Peaceful Coexistence (BUT said it didn't signify ideological weakening), Detente, Improve Economy Twin Track approach to Foreign Policy -
Hamel Report
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Prague Spring
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Non-Proliferation Treaty
Br, US + USSR agree not to give nuclear weapons to other countries or assist in building them -
Brezhnev Doctrine
soviet union would not tolerate any deviation from the soviet union -
Ostpolitik
Moscow Treaty - 1970 -
SALT 1
5 year freeze on construction of missile launders, submarine launched missles and klong ranged bombers
- it ws ok for USSR to have more missiles bcs MIRVs could hit multiple targets -
Helsinki Accord
Basket 3 - committed all signatories to respecting human rights Focus on berlin adn troop reductions -
SALT 2
Permanent limitations on nuclear weapons
(never ratified) -
Invasion of Afghanistan
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Carter Doctrine
President Carter funds the Mujahedin and arms them in order to combat the Soviet Union. Trade Embargos The USSR caught up in an unwinnable war due to US interference -
Solidarity in Poland