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CW E4

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  • Moscow Washington Hotline

  • Gen. Leon Johnson Report

    Director of NSC's Net Evaluation Subcommittee
    Potential nuclear war could result in 93 mil fatalities for US and 140 mil for USSR
    ‘Neither the US nor the USSR can emerge from a full-scale nuclear exchange without suffering very severe damage and high casualties'.

  • Linited Test Ban Treaty

    Prohibited nuclear weapons tests/other nuclear explosions underwater, atmosphere, or outer space
    Allowed underground nuclear tests as long as no radioactive debris falls outside the boundaries of the nation conducting the test.

  • JFK assassination

  • LBJ in office

  • Finalisation of OPLAN 34A

    Covert action to force NV "to desist from its aggressive policies"
    Americanisation of conflict

  • Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

    Administration had power to do as it wished in Vietnam

  • Attack on US naval passage

    Used torpedoes
    Led to Gulf of Tonkin Resolution

  • Bombings of NV naval bases

    Worsened popularity in SV

  • Brezhnev leader of USSR

  • First Chinese nuclear bomb testing

  • Malinovsky Incident

    Malinovsky suggested to Chinese delegate to get rid of Mao
    Peace talks immediately broke down
    Exacerbated Sino Soviet split

  • Attack on US army barracks + helicopter bases

  • US troops deployed to Vietnam

    20,000 troops
    Following rejection of 4 point proposal plan

  • Operation Rolling Thunder

  • 4 Point Programme

    Removal of US troops from SV
    Self determination for SV
    Peaceful reunification
    Neither NV or SV in military alliance

  • Escalation of US military presence in Vietnam

    75,000 troops deployed in total
    Fear of attack in Vietnam

  • Operation Silver Bayonet

  • Chinese Cultural Revolution

    Preserve Chinese communism
    Little Red Book
    Mao's cult of personality
    Students formed Red Guards

  • Muhammad Ali prison sentence

    Sentenced to 5 years
    Was released in 1971

  • Outer Space Treaty

    No WMDs/military activities in space
    Only peaceful exploration

  • Dubcek replaces Novotny

    Manage limited reform + stabilise Czechoslovakia

  • Tet Offensive began

    Hundreds of simultaneous Vietcong attacks in SV

  • Paris student protests

  • Non Proliferation Treaty

    Prevent spread of nuclear weapons
    Promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy Nuclear disarmament + complete disarmament.
    Signed by UK, US, USSR + 59 other states (France + China signed later)

  • Warsaw Letter

    USSR, Bulgaria, Pol, Hun, GDR warned Czechoslovakia that challenges to socialism within one country were a threat to the entire socialist movement - not to be tolerated.

  • End of Brezhnev Doctrine

    USSR would not allow Eastern European states to reject communism

  • Prague Spring ended

    Began April
    Period of freedom
    Promised Czechoslovakia in Warsaw Pact + no liberalisation
    500,000 Warsaw troops invaded

  • Nixon in Office

  • Zhenbao Incident

    China ambushed USSR

  • Husak in power

    Replaced Dubcek who was arrested

  • SALT I began

  • Seabed Treaty

    No nuclear weapons in the sea
    Signed by UK, US, USSR + 91 others

  • ABM Treaty signed

    Limit ABMs