"Cold War in Europe" chapter 7

1. How much progress was made towards detente in Europe in 1963-69 and what problems had to be overcome?

a. describe two treaties - Test Ban treaty of 1963 set up to stop testing of nuclear weapons. And the Warsaw Treaty of 1970 most likely unifying USSR and her satellite states.

b. why had the US lost some of its moral authority?

They had failed in Vietnam, and distrust among NATO members.

c. what were the Europeans focused on during this time? what made their task easier?

To stay strong and regain their freedom from the war. Detente because its was a point when the cold war was even colder and nothing world ending happened.

d. how did Franc contribute to detente?

1. Withdrew from NATO

2. Alliance with West Germany

3. EEC

e. how did the Hamel Report define the role of NATO in the age of detente?

That it's members needed to stay unify in order to keep peace, that they basically had to trust each other.

f. what three factors combined to weaken Soviet control over the eastern bloc?

Clashes with China over communism, the production of the eastern bloc countries were behind, technology disadvantages, oil problems.

g. according to the Bucharest Declaration, what were the goals of the Warsaw Pact for detente?

Become advanced, essentially become more communist.

h. What three steps did Dubcek take in Czechoslovakia, which lead to the Prague Spring?

Invasion of Czechoslovakia, censorship of anti communist believes, and ganged up on them.

i. How did the Prague Spring end?

IT was seen that the USSR did have the right to do this because of the Brezhnev Doctrine