Presidents & Treaties

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SALT II talks

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Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty – Jimmy Carter and Brezhnev sought to curtail the manufacture of strategic nuclear weapons. First nuclear arms treaty which assumed real reductions in strategiv forces to 2,250 of all categories of delivery vehicles on both sides.

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INF Treaty

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Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty – agreement between the US and Soviets – eliminated nuclear and conventional ground launched ballistic and cruise missiles with intermediate ranges, defined as between 500-5,500 km

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START talks

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– Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty – US and Soviet – barred from deploying more than 6,000 nuclear warheads. Largest and most complex arms control treaty in history. 2001 removal of about 80% of all strategic nuclear weapons then in existence

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Franklin Roosevelt

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32nd President, elected 1932 during great depression, lead allies in WWII, New Deal to get America out of depression

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Dwight Eisenhower

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34th president – served as supremem commander of the allied forces in Europe in WWII, planned invasion of North Africa and the successful invasion of France and Germany from the Western Front, became the first supreme commander of NATO

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Richard Nixon

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37th President – Served in the Pacific Theater in WWII, withdrew American forces from Vietnam as president. Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty

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Jimmy Carter

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39th President – SALT II talks, Iran hostage crisis, Soviet invasion of Afghanistan

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Ronald Reagan

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40th President – Ended Cold War, Soviet Union “evil empire” Star Wars, INF Treaty

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Woodrow Wilson

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American entry into WWI and peace treaty in Paris

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George H.W. Bush

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41st President – Served in WWII, Persian Gulf, fall of Berlin Wall, soviet union was dissolved.

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Washington Conference

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Five-Pwer Treaty. Limited the naval arms race that began after WWI. US 5 ships, Brits build 5, Japs build 3. Japanese saw 5:5:3 ratio of ships as another way of being snubbed by the West.