Cold War '70 - '79

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  • Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty is ratified

    Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty is ratified
    Goals:
    1. Prevent the spread of nuclear weapons and weapons technology
    2. Promote cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy
    3. Further the goal of achieving nuclear disarmament
    • A total of 190 parties joined the treaty, and the five permanent members of the UN Security Council were recognized as nuclear-weapon states. Link text

  • Four Power Agreement Berlin

    Four Power Agreement Berlin
    • This was made between the Soviet Union, USA, Britain, and France and reconfirmed the rights and responsibilities of those countries with regard to Berlin.
    • Due to this agreement, despite all of the fears, both sides managed to make many bargains.
    • It reestablished travel and communications between East and West Berlin and contributed to the easing of tensions between the Western and Soviet blocs Link text

  • Strategic Arms Limitation Talks

    Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
    • The Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty signed between the US and USSR.
    • The May 1972 summit meeting between Nixon and Brezhnev was an opportune moment to pursue the closer relations each desired.
    • First, they limited the number of anti-ballistic missile (ABM) sites each country could have to two. (ABMs were missiles designed to destroy incoming missiles.)
    • Second, the number of intercontinental ballistic missiles and submarine-launched ballistic missiles was frozen at existing levels.

  • Yom Kippur War

    Yom Kippur War
    • This war was mainly Egypt and Syria against Israel
    • U.S. and the Soviet Union initiated massive resupply efforts to their respective allies during the war, and this led to a near-confrontation between the two nuclear superpowers.
    • The Soviets backed down on their threat but the damage to relations between the two nations was serious and long-lasting.

  • Deportation of Alexander Solzhenitsyn

    Deportation of Alexander Solzhenitsyn
    • Alexander Isayevich Solzhenitsyn was a Russian novelist and historian. He was an outspoken critic of the Soviet Union and communism and helped to raise global awareness of its Gulag forced labor camp system.
    • He was deported from Russia for performing systematically actions that are incompatible with being a citizen of the U.S.S.R. and detrimental to the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. Link

  • Apollo-Soyuz Test Project

    Apollo-Soyuz Test Project
    • After World War II both the United States and the Soviet Union realized how important rocket research would be to the military. They each recruited the top rocket scientists from Germany to help with their research.
    • Russia gained the lead by putting the first man in space.
    • However, after much competition, the space race finally came to an end when the U.S. eventually put the first man on the moon, under President Kennedy.