Cold War: 1970s

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Negotiations between both super powers, Nixon and the General Secretary Brezhnev.
Opened in Vienna, and occurred in both Vienna and Helsinki on May 26, 1972
This was first of two SALT negotiations ended with the signing of ABM Treaty and Interim Agreement on strategic offenseive arms in Moscow.
A talk over limits on important armaments known as the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks or Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty.
Interim Agreement, which was the five year duration to "freeze" the amount of Strategic Ballistic Missiles at 1972's time.
Construction of additional land-based ICBM silos were prohibited, as SLBM launchers can be made under specific directions.
These could be used to slow a competititon in defence systems that could become a problem.
Both Treaties include provisions that are important to stenghten assurance against violations.
Both Courntires agree not to use deliberate concealment measures to impede verification.
The Soviets said if NATO increased the number of Subs, they would do the same and the US didnt agree to this provision.
The ABM Treaty was of Unlimited Duration, but anyone has the rigyht to withdrawl with a 6 month notice.

Federal Republic of Germany and Czechoslovak Social Republic.
Prague, Czechoslovakia on December 11, 1973
F.R.G. and Czechoslovakia sign a treaty in which the two states recognise each other diplomatically.
As well declare the 1938 Munich Agreements Null and Void by realizing the inviolability of their common borders and to abandon all territory claims.
A realization that a better future and be a possibility if they can work together to create and develop better mutual relations.
The treaty itself assures that no new territory claims will be stated or ever made.
Promised to deal with issues diplomatically and peacefully to refrain from use of force that could compromise international security, in mutual relations.
It relieved tension with a treaty with the Warsaw Pact and relations between democratic Germany and Socialist Czechoslovakia.
This aimed to strengthen peace and secutiry in Europe.
Everyone is conviced that peaceful co-opertaion on the basis of the purposes and princliples of the United Nations Charter complies with the wishes of nations and the intersts of peace.

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Cvce.eu

Was between the U.S., U.K., France, U.S.S.R. / East and west Germany.
Berlin, Germany 1971
This agreement charged the government of Western Berlin G.D.R. with negotiating an accord that would regulate access to and from West Berlin from the FRG and to secure the right of west Berliners to visit East Berliners and the G.D.R.
The Transit agreement of may 1972 arranged these matters and secure the rights of the G.D.R. citizens to visit the F.R.G., but in cases of family emergency.
Both the F.R.G. and G.D.R. saw a need for a better treaty due the negotiations on traffic between each other.
Talks began, and by December 1972 the signing o f the Basic treaty occurred.
The Treaty itself showed the wanting of the betterment of normalized relations on basis of equality , keeping Territorial integrity.
Acts such as their brought a closer peace in Europe and the bring down of the Iron curtain to increase relations to work together to improve each other, without connection to political views.
The basic treaty had brought up as very heated in Soviet Russian and Democratic views, and made them not want better relations.
In response, the F.R.G. had made relations with Czechoslovakia.

This was between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R. represented by President Carer and General Secretary Brezhnev.
This occur d on June 18, 1979 in Vienna, Austria
This was the second meeting of the Active negotiations on Strategic offensive arms, due to interim Agreement.
The Primary Goal was to replace the Interim Agreement with a long term comprehensive Treaty providing broad limits on strategic offensive weapon systems.
As well as to provide equal number of strategic nuclear delivery vehicles for each side.
To start the precess in which to reduce these vehicles.
And to put more restraints on qualitative developments which could threaten a future stability.
The S.A.L.T. 2 agreement was signed and President Carter sent it to the Senate on June 22 for its advice and consent to ratification.
The agreement was in three parts:

a treaty on which would be infoced through 1985 based on the Vladivostok accord.
A protocol of about three year duration which would cover cerrtain issues such as cruise missle and constraitns, mobile ICBM's, while deferring further negiotitations on those issues to S.A.L.T. 3.

This overal was a jouint statment of priniciples on which would be an agreeed set of guidelines for future generaltions.

The U.S. and the North Vietnamese were involded in the bombing.
It was located in Hanoi and Haiphong, Vietnam. Occured April 16,1972.
This was known as the "Easter Offensive" to the United States.
The U.S. had decided that the Northern Vietnamese were becoming an issue to the South in which they steped in to slow the invasions into the south.
This was the first use of B-52's and first attacks on the cities since 1968.
18 B-52's, 100 U.S. Navy, and the Airforce's figher-bombers bombed supply dumps near Haiphong's Harbor.
The U.S. has annouiced that they would Bomb only military targets anywhere in North Vietnam to defend the Southern Vietnamese.
The North Vietnamese included 14 infantry divisions, and 26 seperate regiments.
They also had an increasing number of 120,000 plus troops, and about 1,200 tanks or other armored veichles.
The Objectives of the North Vietnamese was to Kontum in centeral Highlands, and An Lov farther ot the south.
The southern Vietnamese had fought for their lives, and had been victorious with the help from U.S. advisors and massive airpowers.

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