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The Cold War. Détente 1968-1979 & Challenges to Détente in the 1970s. Examples of Détente in the 1960s and 1970s. 1968 Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons Treaty 1969 SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks) 1971 Nuclear Accidents Agreement.
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The Cold War Détente 1968-1979 & Challenges to Détente in the 1970s
Examples of Détente in the 1960s and 1970s • 1968 Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons Treaty • 1969 SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks) • 1971 Nuclear Accidents Agreement
Taking into account the devastating consequences that nuclear war would have for all mankind, and recognizing the need to exert every effort to avert the risk of outbreak of such a war, including measures to guard against accidental or unauthorized use of nuclear weapons, • Believing that agreement on measures for reducing the risk of outbreak of nuclear war serves the interests of strengthening international peace and security, and is in no way contrary to the interests of any other country, • Bearing in mind that continued efforts are also needed in the future to seek ways of reducing the risk of outbreak of nuclear war, • - Preamble to the Nuclear Accidents Agreement
SALT I 1972 • Results in Freeze of Strategic Nuclear Weapons • Consisted of 2 Parts: • Interim Agreement on Offensive Arms • The Anti-Ballisitic Missile Treaty • No Decisions Taken on MIRVs and ICBs • Represents Recognition of Soviet Parity
”Peace is not a universal realization of one nation's desires, but a general acceptance of a concept of international order.” - Henry Kissinger
Further Agreements • 1972 The Basic Principles of Relations Between the USSR and US • 1973 The Prevention of Nuclear War Agreeement • 1975 The Helsinki Agreement
SALT II • Actual Limits on Arsenals • Tensions at the end of the 1970s Prevented the Treaty from Being Ratified • Both Countries, though, would honor it until 1986
US-Soviet Summits • Moscow 1972: Brezhnev - Nixon • Washington 1973: Brezhnev - Nixon • Moscow 1974: Brezhnev - Nixon • Vladivostok 1974: Brezhnev - Ford • Vienna 1979: Brezhnev - Carter
Ostpolitik: German Relations in the 1950s • West Germany Had Had a Strict Foreign Policy Pertaining to the East • Konrad Adenhauer’s Hallstein Doctrine • West Germany Not Recognizing Eastern Borders
Willy Brandt & Ostpolitik The German question can only be solved with the USSR not against it…the preconditions for reunification are to be created with the USSR. - Adviser to Brandt, Egon Bahr
Willy Brandt’s Ostpolitik • In 1969 no European Peace Treaty Had Been Signed • Brandt’s Policy Would Acknowledge the Consequences of WWII Defeat • Non-Aggression Treaty with USSR • Normalized Relations with Eastern Bloc Countries • Brandt