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Detente - Coggle Diagram
Detente
Why it ended?
Carter refused to approve SALT II
Stopped all electronic exports to the US
Forbade US athletes to participate in the Olympic Games
USSR
economy and standard of living
new technologies
keep China isolated
Europe
invasion of Czechoslovakia and strikes
political instability
Willy Brandt
Ostpolitik
Soviets
wanted to improve relations in Europe
formalize existing territorial situation in Eastern Europe
Helsinki Agreemen
led to greater cooperation between Eastern and Western Europe
non-aligned countries acted as intermediaries
helping to broker deals between members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
SALT I
strategic arms limitations talks
the crowning achievement of the Nixon-Kissinger strategy of détente
SALT II
established an equal number of nuclear weapons between the countries
limited MIRV missiles, among other guidelines
USA
needed a way to end the Vietnam war
realpolitik
Nixon hoped China and USSR would intervene
deepen the US' global role