HIEU 144 Final: HIEU 144--Cold War--Final Study Guide
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Collapsed 1975-1980: d tente and human rights con icted, relaxation of cold war tensions between us and ussr began 1969. Architects were the new us president (richard nixon) and soviet union"s general secretary (leonid brezhnev), two leaders seeking to fortify their positions in power: arms limitation, us soviet space race: august 11, 1969 apollo 11 lands on the moon. North vietnam: january 27, 1973 paris peace accords end american involvement in the vietnam war. October 25, 1971 un general assembly recognizes the prc as the only legitimate government in china. Germany and eastern europe as well as moscow. Rapprochement between east and west: willy brandt: west german chancellor, social democrat (spd) !2: accepted responsibility at memorial for the jewish ghetto uprising in warsaw, sought change through rapprochement. Visited moscow: negotiated with brezhnev (general secretary of central committee of communist party and. Declared 1938 munich agreements null and void acknowledged inviolability of common borders and abandoned territorial claims.
