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Reasons for detente - Coggle Diagram
Reasons for detente
Europe
Cuba Crisis
Berlin
Did not want Nuclear war
Sandwiched between USSR and USA
Ostpolitik
Soviet desire to confirm borders in the Soviet bloc
USSR
Economy stagnating
Low living standards
Sino-soviet relationships bad
Nuclear party (1969)
Can negotiate from position of strength
Technology
Need to import Western machinery, grain, and advanced technology
Inefficient industrial production
USA
Vietnam war
Took a lot of money
Backlash
Division within the country
Isolated the US internationally
Did not stop communist ideology
New president
Nixon (1968)
Foreign minister Henry Kissinger
'Realpolitik'
US economy
PRC
Sino-Soviet relationships bad
To form better relations with the US
Regain Taiwan
Access to Western resources