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SALT II
First Strategic Arms Limitation Talks Agreement (SALT) US and USSR. Set a limit for the amount of ballistic missiles allowed to be present. Allowed Anti-Ballistic Missiles limited to 2. -
Détente
Period of improved relations between U.S. and Soviet Union -
Richard NIxon visits China
Nixon visits China to establish a permanent trade between the two countries, also to expand cutural contact between countries.
Nixon met with Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai and also met with Mao Zedong seeking to improve relations with a communist country. -
SALT II
1972 – 1979. Series of talks between US and USSR. Sought to curb the amount of nuclear weapons produced. First nuclear arms treaty to provide real reduction of nuclear arms -
Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
In the Treaty on the Limitation of Anti-Ballistic Missile Systems the United States and the Soviet Union agree that each may have only two ABM deployment areas, so restricted and so located that they cannot provide a nationwide ABM defense or become the basis for developing one. Each country thus leaves unchallenged the penetration capability of the others retaliatory missile forces. Precise quantitative and qualitative limits are imposed on the ABM systems that may be deployed. -
Détente
Nixon became the first president to travel to Moscow and visit The secretary – general of the Soviet Union, Leonid I (May 1972). Nixon and Leonid I sign seven agreements covering the prevention of accidental military clashes. -
Kissinger and Le Duc Tho resume negotiations in Paris
President Thieu, once again threatened by Nixon with a total cut-off of American aid to South Vietnam, now unwillingly accepts the peace agreement, which still allows North Vietnamese troops to remain in South Vietnam. Thieu labels the terms "tantamount to surrender" for South Vietnam. -
Paris Peace Accords
Peace agreement bewteen the US, South Vietnam, North Vietnam, and Vietcong that effectively ended the Vietnam War. Which incorporates the end of American involvement. -
Coup d’etat of Chilean Government
This coup became known to be the bloodiest in the history of Latin America. Supporters of Popular Unity were subject to torture and murder. Bodies were moved to mass graves. President Salvador Allende died while being attacked by his own forces because he refused to leave. -
South Vietnam falls to Communism
5 days before Saigon falls, South Vietnam's president resigns leaving the country with out a leader. Vietnam cons forces took over the captial with little to no effort. -
Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
General Daud is overthrown and killed in a pro-Soviet coup. People’s Democratic Party comes to power. -
Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan
Soviet War in Afghanistan was key in destroying one of the Cold War world’s two superpowers (the Soviet Union). -
Soviet Army
Soviet Army invades & props up communist government -
America in the Nicaraguan Sandinista Revolution
The Contras opposed the Sandinista Junta of National Reconstruction in Nicaragua. So in the early stages of their rebellion they received funding from the U.S. government. The Congress told America to stop but the Reagan administration disobeyed and continued funding them. Reagan actions became the crown of the Iran–Contra affair.
