end of cold war 1970-71

salt 1

1972

slowed production of missiles

use satellites to make sure limits werent broken

yom kippur war

syria & egypt lauched attack on israel

nixon supplied israel

ended with ceasefire

nixon visited moscow

nixon & brezhnev agreed to work together to remove danger of war

limit arms race

helenski agreement

signed by 35 countries

ensured greater security

apollo-soyuz mission

1975

joint mission with america and russia

1960s dominated by extremely competitive race to moon

carters criticism

1977

violated helenski agreement

lack of freedom

salt 2

1978

limited number of strategic nuclear vehicles

banned construction of new land based launchers

meant to last until 1985, lasted until 1975

soviet invasion of afghanistan

1979 communist government was under threat

1978 kabul revolution

mujahideen soon dependant on su

reports that amin was american spy

feared islamic fundamentalism would spread

persuaded by karmal that they could create new government

believed america would tolerate invasion

second cold war

1980-85

relations deteriorated in early 80s

reagan became president

strategic defence initiative

named star wars by media

plan for ground and space system

enable us to shoot down soviet missiles

relied on advanced technology

broke terms of outer-space treaty

gorbachev

1986 chernobyl crisis

glasnost & perestrokia

gorbachev & reagan

nov 1985 geneva - reagan refused to drop sdi

oct 1986 reykjavik - reagan refused to drop sdi, gorbachev refused to scrap all ballistic missiles

dec 1987 washington - intermediate nuclear forces treaty

1989 george bush - met with gorbachev declared end to cold war