The End Of The Cold War

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The general reduction in tension between the Soviet Union and the US and a thawing of the cold war occurring during the 70s.

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Détente

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He served as National Security Advisor and later concurrently as Secretary of State in the Richard Nixon administration.

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Henry Kissinger

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A doctrine that stated that the United States henceforth expected its allies to take care of their own military defense. The Doctrine argued for the pursuit of peace through a partnership with American allies.

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Nixon Doctine

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This was the first step in formally normalizing relations between the United States and the People's Republic of China. It also marked the first time a U.S. president had visited the PRC.

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1972 Nixon visit to China

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A policy pursued by the US during the 1970s which aimed to persuade the Soviet Union and Communist China to co-operate in restraining revolutions in the Third World in return for concessions in nuclear and economic fields.

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Linkage

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A treaty between the United States of America and the Soviet Union on the limitation of the systems used in defending areas against missile-delivered nuclear weapons.

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ABM Treaty

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Froze the number of strategic ballistic missile launchers at existing levels, and provided for the addition of new SLBM launchers only after the same number of older ICBM and SLBM launchers had been dismantled.

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SALT I

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This treaty helped the U.S. to discourage the Soviets from arming their third generation ICBMs of SS-17, SS-19 and SS-18 types with many more MIRVs.

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SALT II

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A nine-year conflict involving Soviet forces supporting the Marxist People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan (PDPA) government against the mujaheddin resistance.

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Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan

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He was the last General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, serving from 1985 until 1991, and also the last head of state of the USSR, serving from 1988 until its collapse in 1991.

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Mikhail Gorbachev

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A proposal by Reagan on March 23, 1983 to use ground and space-based systems to protect the United States from attack by strategic nuclear ballistic missiles.

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Strategic defense initiative

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A secret arrangement in the 1980s to provide funds to the Nicaraguan contra rebels from profits gained by selling arms to Iran.

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Iran-Contra affair

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The policy of maximal publicity, openness, and transparency in the activities of all government institutions in the Soviet Union, together with freedom of information, introduced by Mikhail Gorbachev.

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Glasnost

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The political and economic reforms introduced in June 1987 by the Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Its literal meaning is "restructuring", referring to the restructuring of the Soviet economy.

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Perestroika

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An attempt by a group of members of the Soviet Union's government to take control of the country from Gorbachev. The coup leaders were members of the Communist Party who felt that Gorbachev's reform program had gone too far.

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August Coup

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The first President of the Russian Federation, serving from 1991 to 1999.

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Boris Yeltsin