HIST-1106EL Study Guide - Quiz Guide: Arms Control, Nikita Khrushchev, Authoritarianism
8 Nov 2020
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American public displeased with soviet restrictions on jewish emigration, policymakers concerned about soviet presence in third world. United states increasingly optimistic about prospects of bilateral confrontation; more adversarial stance at this point: perceived soviet militarization as aggressive, intervention in afghanistan was the last straw perceived as a strategic offensive. Instituted economic embargo and boycotted olympic games in moscow, negated legitimacy of su, attempted to roll back communism in the third world, returned to arms race: obsession with the soviet threat made ussr seem stronger than it was. Soviet union deepening systematic crisis characterized by economic slowdown, science- technological gap between russia and the west, negative demographic trends, socio-political stagnation crisis worsened by extreme militarization of the economy and growing third world. Overstretch : walked from arms control negotiations increased tensions between su and us meant. Salt ii was not ratified: stepped up military prep, intensified ideological warfare, revived old image of aggressive.
