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- important events for the future relationship between the superpowers
- underlined the weaknesses of each superpower and undermined thei ideologies - eased tension in the ideological conflict of the Cold war - fundamental ideological shift in the leader's thinking in the 1970s |
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Main Argument
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- co-operation between the two superpowers increased who both wanted to establish a balance among the competing countries
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1st para: media coverage of Vietnam
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Dean Rusk
"the first struggle fought on television in everybody's living room every day." - split in opinion in the US - opposition to involvement started to grow - media showed immorality eg moral corruptions within the army, soldiers lost their moral standards, simply killed offiers who seemed incompetent to them "had a knife attached to my boot" - Americans questioned military involvement - one part demanded withdrawal while the others demanded a tougher policy from Johnson - no consensus support for containment RESULT: need to negotiate with the USSR And China |
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2nd Para: end of US containment
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- anti-war movement gaining support by the increasing number of US casualties
- no real gain for the US General William C. Westmoreland "morally locked us in Vietnam." - in Vietnam containment of communism was not effective Nixon "a period of adjustment to profound transformation in global politics." - containment ended, peace talks initiated |
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3rd para: USSR idelogy of Communism undermined
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Brezhnev
"will cause us the bitterest consequences in the breakdown of the ranks of Communist parties in foreign countries, in capitalist countries." - demonstrated weakness by underlining Soviet reliance on force eg when dubszek introduced reforms (which would weaken the government's control over the country), Soviet leaders saw no other solution than posing military threat on Czechoslovakia - Communist brotherhood, supported each other because they could not risk a reform for Communism - other examples Ulbricht in DDR and gomulkaim in Poland - Rague sping ended Soviet exüansion - soviets realised that Communism could not spread any further without force which would risk another war - convinced that all members who are not strictly communism will turn to capitalism - served as a reason for opposition against communism - USSR lost its image as the dynamic revolutionary superpower |
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4th para: crisis in their war commission
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- damaged the egitimacy of principles such as US containment and Soviet Expansion
- split in US opinion and the limitation of military power accepted, global negotiations initiated by Nixon, sought better relation with USSR who could pose pressure on North Vietnam to end the conflict - final settlement of the situation in Eastern Europe - gradual progress in detente, visits - 1975, Helsinki Agreement Dubzek "a significant role in bringing about the liberization inside the Soviet Union and the nations of Eastern Europe." |
