HIS344Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Eastern Bloc, United Nations Security Council Resolution 242, Nikita Khrushchev
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Republicans in washington criticized the fact that the russians were given a few hundred more missiles. Including kissinger, they argued that the usa handed over military superiority to the soviets (are you retarded?) Liberals criticized nixon and kissinger that they made a deal with a totalitarian government and for not getting a greater guarantee for more human rights. Also by 1976-77, there was a powerful argument in the usa that d tente was a ploy to out flank the usa. To use the agreement to advance its own goals around the third world. They saw the hand of moscow in every single revolutionary movement as well as the yom kippur war, when we knew egypt kicked out the. Also in angola, castro sent in troops on his own, not with moscow"s approval. In addition, there was the vietnam war that was united under hanoi (communist) all done to get power in the third world.
