Détente

Question 1

What does the détente mean & when did it take place

Answer 1

• The period of time when the superpowers relations improved and tensions decreased
• The end of the 1960s into the second half of the 1970s

Question 2

How was the threat of war reduced

Answer 2

• Greater dialogue between the countries
• Reduction of nuclear weapons
• Summits held regular between Brezhnev and Nixon

Question 3

Why did relations between China and the USSR deteriorate in the 1960s

Answer 3

Mao did not share that same views of Khrushchev or Brezhnev

Question 4

Why were both Moscow and Washington fearful of China 1964

Answer 4

China had tested its first atomic bomb causing anxiety on both sides

Question 5

Reasons for détente
lessons of conflict & economic issues

Answer 5

• USA & the USSR were able to defend their interests without direct intervention
• Both countries had spent billions on defence and could not keep funding it

Question 6

Salt I meaning

Answer 6

strategic on limitation talks

Question 7

How did the Salt I help relations

Answer 7

Treaties were signed including
- the ban on building new ballistic missile launchers
- Anti Ballistic Missile Treaty reduced number of anti nuclear defences that could be built .

Question 8

When was Salt I signed

Answer 8

May 1972 in Moscow