“Detente was just a perception not a reality”

Anwar el-Sadat president of Egypt decided to end their relationship with the Soviet Union and start a new one with the US

When Nixon and Kissinger ignored him, Sadat decided to get their attention by launching a surprise attack across the Suez canal on the US ally Israel

According to the basic principles agreement how should the two superpowers react?

USA supplied Israel with arms.

Rebuffed a demand for Brezhnev for a jointly enforced cease fire

Kissinger then personally negiated an end to the hostilities, gaining gratitude in both Egypt and Israel

The agreements in action: Yom-Kippur war

What does the Yom-Kippur

war reveal about Detente?

Agreed the borders of Eastern Europe – including East Germany – they could not be

changed by force

Trade and technology to be promoted and exchanged across the iron curtain

SU signed up to a human rights agreementon freedom of speech and freedom of

movement

The Helsinki Accords signed 1st August 1975

How do you predict the Helsinki agreements will impact upon the governments of the two superpowers?

Review your notes. Where is the emphasis being placed with this agreement?

1974 Ford and Brezhnev began and agreed in principle to SALT II in Vladivostok

Agreement was made on certain areas ofmissile deployment but areas were also left out

The US right began to believe that the USA were giving too much away especially in

areas such as cruise missiles

This linked with increasing SU activity in Africa made many see the USas giving in and being weak on communism allowing them to expand

SALT was signed in Vienna in 1979

It was a very complicated Treaty and withthe SU increasingly taking an active role

in other areas and the invasion of Afghanistan, Congress refused to ratify the

agreement – SALT was dead!!!

“Detente was just a perception not a reality”Exit paragraph