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Vietnam War
Even though the Detente was put into action, the Vietnam war was still raging on. Though we didnt sign the Detente with Vietnam, we still signed with the Soviets, and the Chinese. -
Lyndon B Johnson
Lyndon B. Johnshon attended the Glassboro Summit Confrences before he his presidency was over. -
Glassboro Summit Conference
The Glassboro Summit Conference, usually just called the Glassboro Summit, was the 23–25 June 1967 meeting of the heads of government of the United States and the Soviet Union—President Lyndon B. Johnson and Premier Alexei Kosygin, respectively—for the purpose of discussing Soviet–US relations. -
New President
President Richard Nixon is inagurated into the whire house, for his first term. Also, Nixon initialed the Detente, took the USA out of the Vietnam war, and visited China all in the time span of 5 years, before he became the first president to resign. -
The Beginning of the Detente Era
Relations between the Soviet Union, China and the USA deteriorated during the Vietnam War. By 1969 both the soviet union and the united states were willing to build a new relationship based on détente as proposed by Henry Kissinger, détente would lower risks of nuclear war and provide for more predictable international order. -
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The Detente Era
Détente is the easing of strained relations, especially in a political situation. The term is often used in reference to the general easing of relations between the Soviet Union and the United States, a thawing of the Cold War, which occurred from the late 1940s with the Berlin airlift in 1948 - 1949 until the start of the 1980s. -
The Signing of the Detente Between the Soviet Union, China, and America.
Chinese, American, And Soviet Leaders all came together to sign the detente, so they could releave tensions in the tensions in their countries. -
Moscow-Bonn Agreement
On August 12, 1970, the Moscow-Bonn Agreement was signed by Kosygin, Prime Minister of the Soviet Union, Willy Brandt, Chancellor of West Germany. Following this, Brandt initiated measures for resolving the Berlin problem. On September 3, 1971, the US, the Soviet Union, Britain and France signed an Agreement on Berlin -
Latin America
In Latin America, the United States continued to block any leftward electoral shifts in the region by supporting right-wing military coups. -
Visit to Washington
Leonid Brezhnev (left) and Richard Nixon (right) during Brezhnev's June 1973 visit to Washington; this was a high-water mark in détente between the United States and the Soviet Union. -
Boycott
The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan that was to shore up a struggling allied regime led to harsh criticisms in the west and a boycott of the 1980 Summer Olympics, which were to be held in Moscow. -
Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter boosted the U.S. defense budget and began financially aiding the President of Pakistan, General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, who would in turn subsidize the anti-Soviet Mujahideen fighters in the region
