HIS344Y1 Lecture 15: Lecture 15.doc
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D tente = trade agreements, equal spheres of influence, recognition of nuclear parity nevertheless there were problems . In washington, there were critics of salt i. The fact that the ussr was allowed to keep more nuclear weapons than the us was problematic for many americans. Equally problematic: critics of the d tente felt that the us was too lenient with the. Vietnam, even after the us signed a peace treaty, north vietnam took over the south and turned the entire peninsula into a communist camp, defeating the american proxy state. Vietnam was no puppet of ussr, hanoi determined its own course of actions. To the americans, vietnam"s actions were seen as a soviet attempt to undermine the. One of the fiercest critics of the d tente called it expansion via proxy . Jackson, in 1974, wanted to pass a resolution through government which would connect the trade agreements signed with the ussr in 1972 based on soviet good behavior.
