Detente year revision

• 1971 - A group of American table tennis players pave the way for better relations between US and China


  Ping Pong Diplomacy
• 1972 - The official coming together of USA and China following Nixon's visit


  Sino-US Rapprochement
• 1972 - Agreed at Moscow Summit and agreed 12 principles that would dictate the commitment to detente and peacefully coexisting


  SALT I
• 1972 - First round of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks - agreed Anti-Ballistic Missile limits and set out the interim agreement - with commitments to later talks


  Basic Principles Agreement
• 1972 - Acknowledged improved relations between East and West Germany.


  Basic Treaty
• 1972- Opening of west relations in Europe with the Eastern Bloc


  Ostpolitik
• 1973 - A short conflict in the Middle East between Israel and surrounding Arab nations.


  Yom-Kippur War
• 1973 - USA Supports Pinochet in _____ despite human rights abuses


  Chile
• 1974 - Two day summit with the purpose of extended arms control provisions (Ford and Brezhnev)


  Vladivostok Accords
• 1975 - Accords consisting of 3 Buckets: Security, Cooperation and human rights.


  Helsinki Accords
• 1975 - Joint space mission that saw two ships dock in space together


  Apollo-Soyuz Mission
• 1975 - Cuban-American proxy war in ______ (MLPA VS FNLA)


  Angola
• 1977 - nation aligned with Soviet ideals with proximity to the Suez Canal


  Ethiopia
• 1979 - _________ taken over by communist coup (according to Reagan)


  Nicaragua
• 1979 - US citizens and diplomats held hostage by Islamic group


  Iran Hostage Crisis
• 1979 - Talks with aims for further arms limitation, not ratified


  SALT II
• 1979-1989 - Soviet invasion which was the nail in the coffin of Detente


  Afghanistan War