1. What caused détente and what did it achieve ?

2. Homework this week:

3. Détente is a French word meaning Relaxation

4. Vietnam

5. Arms Race

6. 1973 Oil Crisis

7. Relations with China

8. Nixon

9. USA & China
Why is the US president (77-81) hitting Taiwan? (Taiwan is an island off the SE coast of China where nationalists retreated in 1949 when communists took over China; Taiwan lost its place in the UN to China in 1971)
Why is the General Secretary being hit by the Chinese leader?
What was ‘Ping-Pong Diplomacy’ and who benefited? (who were annoyed?)

10. Reasons for Détente: assessment
Arab-Israeli War
Poverty
Price rise
Protests
Brezhnev visits Washington, 74
US reputation
Visits Moscow, 72
Inflation
Visits China, 72
Co-operated with USSR in support of North Vietnam
Sino-Soviet split

11. 1: East & West Germany
As part of the policy of Ostpolitik, the Basic Treaty was signed in In this treaty the Federal Republic of Germany and German Democratic Republic committed themselves to developing normal relations on the "basis of equality, guaranteeing their mutual territorial integrity as well as the border between them, and recognizing each other's independence and sovereignty".

12. 2: SALT
A ceiling was placed on the number of ICBMs that each side could deploy for a period of five years (October 3, 1972, to October 3, 1977). The effect of this limitation was to freeze the existing number of American ICBMs at 1054 while permitting the Soviet Union to expand its ICBM arsenal from 1530 to A temporary stop of equivalent duration was declared on the construction of submarine-launched missiles (SLBMs), leaving the Soviet Union with 950 missiles in 62 submarines compared to 710 American missiles in 44 submarines.
The SALT I agreement limited each side to the deployment of 100 ABM launchers and interceptor missiles at two sites, one to be the national capital and the other to be an ICBM missile base

13. MIRVS: Multiple Independently Targetable Reentry Vehicles

14. 3: Co-operation in space: Apollo & Soyuz, 1975

15. 4: Helsinki Conference, 1975

16. Assessment Why USA supported this Why USSR supported this /10
Co-operation between GDR & FRG
Arms reductions
Co-operation in space
Helsinki Agreement

17. Détente had both strategic and economic benefits for both superpowers
Space
SALT I
Helsinki
Conference
Ostpolitik

18. Why was there a Freeze in the 1980s?
Carter told Congress not to ratify SALT II
Soviets invade Afghanistan, 1979
Soviets slow to improve human rights
US boycott Moscow Olympics, 1980
Soviets boycott LA Olympics, 1984
Star Wars developed by Reagan

19. Soviets invade Afghanistan, Christmas Day 1979

20. Annotate the map: think of at least two reasons Afghanistan was important to the Soviets

22. Reagan

23. Strategic Defence Initiative

24. Reagan’s Nicaragua policy
Who is the figure on the left and why is he pointing a gun?
Who is the figure bottom right and who did she support?
How would the Soviets react to US policy in Central America?

25. Criticising Reagan: Evidence that Reagan was viewed as too aggressive?
Evidence that he was spending too much money on arms?
Evidence that he was ruling in an un-democratic way?

26. PLENARY: Why has the cartoonist chosen to exhibit Détente in this way
PLENARY: Why has the cartoonist chosen to exhibit Détente in this way? What events led to this situation? Caption?