E5 CW

By stefania16
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    johnson presidency

    president from 1963-1969
    democrat

  • brezhnev in power 1964 oct

    intro consumer socialism- 'reformist' by MAO, wanted.

  • brezhnev doctrine 1968

    nov 1968, introduced so he would have more control over east eu.
    show willingness to intervene into any state in which socialist rule was under threat.
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    nixon presidency

    president from 1969-1972
    republican

  • SALT I 1972

    strategic arms limitation- took 5yrs to come to agree with.
    general move to control arms/ nukes ussr and usa
    made of: anti-ballistic missile treaty 26 may 1972
    ussr and usa only allowed to fields of abms- showed they recogn each others destrucv power.
    And INTERIM AGRMNT on strategci offnsv arms: limit on icbms and slbms each side could deploy

  • interim agreement on the limitations of strategic offnsv arms

    made 26 may 1972 as part of the SALT I agrmnts
    limit nb of icbms and slbms each side could deploy. aswell as mirvs eachside could carry.
    froze nb of existing launchers at the one they're at.

  • anti- ballistic missile treaty

    was one of the main agrmnts on SALT I
    limit ussr and usa to construct two fields of ABMS - no more that 100.
    ussr placed on around moscow and usa put one around an ICMS site.
    made ABMS useless

  • thieu resignation

    due to high nb of defeats through 1973 thieu resign
    21 april 1974

  • vietnam war product

    by end 58,000 us soldiers had died in viet and the cost was $167 billion

  • bombing of viet by end product

    643,000 tones of bombs were dropped on north and 700,000 tones on south, alongside agent orange and napalm ( more bombs then were dropped in the entirety of ww2)
    85% of pop had top be resettled

  • vietnam deaths by end

    1.1 mill vietcong dided and up to 1/3 million arvn died as well as approx 250,000 civilians

  • south Vietnamese troops surrender

    south troops surrend to north , viet reunif and comm intro in south, 1.5 mill ppl flee
    20april 1975

  • SEATO DISBANDED

    SEATO disbanded bcuz of laos, cambodia and viet, obviously was not proving to effective

  • viet- cambodia war

    started in 1978 december, over border disputes. khumer rouge overthrown - commies and a new gov put into place