HIS344Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, Helsinki Accords, Ostpolitik
Document Summary
The era of d tente and the trials of d tente. Restricted number of icbms and slbms that each side could deploy for a period of five years. Maximum of one hundred abm launchers for the two sites that each signatory was permitted to deploy. Allowed both powers to remain mostly equal in strategic capabilities. Would not recognize anyone who recognized the east. West would not recognize polish acquisition of eastern territory. Financial links - negotiating contracts and providing loans. 1971 hard east german leader replaced - looser grip. Resolved berlin issues, formally recognized the four parties" rights. 1973 conference on security and cooperation in europe. Basket one - major triumph for the east. Documents and/or other readings on stl in trinity library:
