CW33+Features+and+Consequences

= Features and consequences of détente =


 * [[image:Refusenik_poster.jpg align="right"]]Improved relations**
 * Summits: e.g., Glassboro, NJ, 1967 - Johnson and Kosygin; Vladivostok 1974 - Ford and Brezhnev
 * International agreements: Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (1963); Outer Space Treaty (1967); Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (1968); Helsinki Accords (1975) - show improved relations and acknowledgement of multilateral world.
 * US-Soviet Agreements: SALT I (1972); Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty (1972); SALT II (1979)
 * US-Soviet trade improved, esp. Soviet grain purchases.
 * Human rights abuses became a prominent feature. A significant part of Helsinki Accords. US tied Soviet Most Favoured Nation status with improvement in human rights (esp. issue of refuseniks). USSR countered criticism by highlighting US support for right-wing dictatorships (e.g. Chile).
 * Soviet-Soyuz Test Project (July 1975) - joint space mission, five years in planning, three astronauts, two cosmonauts, the two modules docked in space and they conducted joint experiments.
 * USSR was becoming an increasing power in world affairs and the US was losing its dominant military position.


 * Continuing conflict**
 * Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia
 * Vietnam War
 * the Soviets promoted Marxist revolution (Angola 1975; Ethiopia 1977)
 * US supported right-wing revolution (Chile 1973)
 * The arms race continued. By the conclusion of SALT I, 1977, both sides had more weapons and more dangerous weapons.
 * Arab-Israeli conflict (1967, 1973)
 * Domestic policy: inconsistency of policy in Carter administration; Iran hostage crisis dominated and destroyed Carter’s presidency; growing anti-détente agitation among Republicans