End of Cold War Final Review

Detente

Easing tensions with USSR and US

Realpolitik

a foreign policy that says we should work with countries based on how powerful they are, not based on similar morals

SALT 1

First Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, led to the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty and the Interim Agreement on the Limitation of Strategic Offensive Weapons

SALT 2

Second Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty, a bilateral agreement between USSR and US to limit strategic offensive arms

SDI

Strategic Defense Initiative, Reagan’s Star-Wars program to build defensive satellites that would shoot down incoming missiles

Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan

USSR invaded this country in 1979 to maintain a communist govt

Human Rights Foreign Policy

President Carter had this kind of foreign policy when he mediated the Camp David Accords between Egypt and Israel, and treaties that led to the Panama Canal being returned to Panamanian control

Fall of the Berlin Wall

1989, East and West Berlin were reunited and this symbolizes the fall of the Soviet Union

Tiananmen Square Protests

China’s govt suppressed these peaceful student protests violently

Geneva Summit

Reagan and Gorbachev meet for the first time to discuss arms control

Reasons for the collapse of the Soviet Union

Failing economy, war with Afghanistan, Glasnost, not suppressing rebellions in most satellite nations

Impact of Charlie Wilson’s War

USSR abandons Afghanistan, rise of Islamic fundamentalism, formation of armed Taliban

The Stinger Missile

An anti-aircraft weapon supplied secretly by US to Mujahadeen

Role of Putin in the invasion of Ukraine

Putin wants to rebuild the Soviet Union by taking back the former satellite nations through violent force

Nixon visits China

US starts recognizing Mao’s govt, this makes USSR nervous because of the Sino-Soviet split

Ping-Pong Diplomacy

This sport brought US and China together

Helsinki Accords

Signed by 35 nations in 1975 including US and USSR, this was an agreement about human rights, territorial integrity, and collaboration between nations