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Reasons for detente - Coggle Diagram
Reasons for detente
US
Promotion of human rights (President Jimmy Carter's human rights foreign policy advocated for wider improved human rights): this would allow the US to engage with communist countries on human rights issues
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Lesson from Vietnam: containment had its limits and they needed to come to an agreement with the USSR
USSR
Economic development
USSR gains access to US technology, trade and investment
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Europe
Improve relations
West Germany's chancellor Willy Brandt wanted to improve relations and encourage dialogue between the East and West German states. This policy was called Ostpolitik.
Territorial divisions
Soviets wanted west to accept and recognise divisions of Germany, thus formalise the territorial disputes in Europe
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Ostpolitik vs realpolitik: Willy Brandt's policy to prevent isolation of East Germany improving relations in Germany vs decisions made not on ideological differences but looking at the larger picture