The Superpower race: Nukes and space (LINKS)

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Make notes on these:
- The nuclear weapon strategies of the US and the USSR?
- The development of nuclear armaments in the 1960s?
- The threats almost realized?
- The beginnings of the nuclear arms control?

Détente

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Years of reconciliation (LINKS)

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Détente 1969-75 | Cold War documentary

(Total duration 46 min)

Helsinki Accords, 1 August 1975

"Declaration on Principles Guiding Relations between Participating States' (the 'Decalogue') is included on the 'first basket' of the Final Act of the Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE). The conference was taken place in Helsinki from 30 July to 1 August 1975. (About Helsinki Accords and their impact on textbook page 149.)

Willy Brandt's Ostpolitik

On textbook page 150.

TASK 2: Detente and Arms Control, 1969-79

A pair work: Read along with this main article articles on A) 'Strategic Arms Limitations Talks/Treaty (SALT) I and II' and B) 'Helsinki Final Act, 1975' (On links within the main article). Create a spider diagram on your topic (A or B) and send it to the dropbox below. Be ready to introduce your topic to your pair.

Prologue: The ’Geneva Spirit’ and ’Peaceful Coexistence’

The Geneva Conference in July 1955.

Reconciliation and renewed conflict, 1963-79

The Superpower race: Nukes and space (LINKS)

The Space Race - timeline

Nuclear weapon states and their arsenals

MAD (1960-72)