The Cold War

Détente 1968-1979&

Challenges to Détente in the 1970s

Examples of Détente in the 1960s and 1970s

1968 Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons Treaty

1969 SALT (Strategic Arms Limitation Talks)

1971 Nuclear Accidents Agreement

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Taking into account the devastating consequences that nuclear war would have for all mankind, and recognizing the need to exert every effort to avert the risk of outbreak of such a war, including measures to guard against accidental or unauthorized use of nuclear weapons,

Believing that agreement on measures for reducing the risk of outbreak of nuclear war serves the interests of strengthening international peace and security, and is in no way contrary to the interests of any other country,

Bearing in mind that continued efforts are also needed in the future to seek ways of reducing the risk of outbreak of nuclear war,

- Preamble to the Nuclear Accidents Agreement

SALT I 1972 Results in Freeze of

Strategic Nuclear Weapons

Consisted of 2 Parts: Interim Agreement on

Offensive Arms The Anti-Ballisitic Missile

Treaty No Decisions Taken on

MIRVs and ICBs Represents Recognition

of Soviet Parity

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”Peace is not a universal realization of one nation's desires, but a general acceptance of a concept of international order.”- Henry Kissinger

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Further Agreements 1972 The Basic

Principles of Relations Between the USSR and US

1973 The Prevention of Nuclear War Agreeement

1975 The Helsinki Agreement

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SALT II Actual Limits on

Arsenals Tensions at the end

of the 1970s Prevented the Treaty from Being Ratified

Both Countries, though, would honor it until 1986

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US-Soviet Summits

Moscow 1972: Brezhnev - Nixon Washington 1973: Brezhnev - Nixon Moscow 1974: Brezhnev - Nixon Vladivostok 1974: Brezhnev - Ford Vienna 1979: Brezhnev - Carter

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Ostpolitik: German Relations in the 1950s

West Germany Had Had a Strict Foreign Policy Pertaining to the East

Konrad Adenhauer’s Hallstein Doctrine

West Germany Not Recognizing Eastern Borders

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Willy Brandt & OstpolitikThe German question can only be solved with the USSR not against it…the preconditions for reunification are to be created with the USSR.- Adviser to Brandt, Egon Bahr

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Willy Brandt’s Ostpolitik In 1969 no European

Peace Treaty Had Been Signed

Brandt’s Policy Would Acknowledge the Consequences of WWII Defeat

Non-Aggression Treaty with USSR

Normalized Relations with Eastern Bloc Countries

Brandt

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