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the big thaw 1969-72 (Cost USSR (economic problems, overspent military…
the big thaw 1969-72
Cost USSR
economic problems
overspent military equipment
poor living standards
food shortages
increased trade with USA
tension with China
1972 Nixon meets Brezhnev
first president - USSR
1973 USSR --> USA
tension eased
imminent war over
1972 USA --> china
USA recognizes Mao's Gov 1st time
China joins UN
detente
reduction in weapons USSR + USA
Better trade USSR + West
Cultural links USSR + west
USA + USSR space exploration
cost USA
Nixon
just won 1968 election
1972 need 2 ease world tension = win election
Mutually assured destruction
nuclear power kill whole world
cost of war
rise inflation
Vietnam War expensive
USA contain comm
arm's race cost Billions
mounting cost affect economy
Value of dollar treated
Cost China
ease tensions
fearful of isolation
had nuclear weapons
Kissinger 1969
security adviser 2 Nixon
believed in secret diplomacy
talks with china
talks with Dobrynin (USSR) ambassador
1969-1972 secret talks which laid detente
peace and stability in world
1970 Brandt
W Germany
1st to visit E Germany
Visited Poland + USSR
W Germany recognize boarder between Poland & E Germany - signed BASIC Treaty
USA + USSR accepted Treaty
E + W Germany joined UN 1973