{"id":5865,"date":"2025-04-08T19:46:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T16:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/?p=5865"},"modified":"2025-03-15T20:02:05","modified_gmt":"2025-03-15T17:02:05","slug":"evaluate-the-causes-for-and-significance-of-the-policy-of-detente-between-the-us-and-ussr-between-1971-and-1979-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/ib-history\/evaluate-the-causes-for-and-significance-of-the-policy-of-detente-between-the-us-and-ussr-between-1971-and-1979-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Evaluate the causes for, and significance of, the policy of detente between the US and USSR between 1971 and 1979&#8221; &#8211; Podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/creators.spotify.com\/pod\/show\/russel-tarr\/episodes\/US-USSR-Dtente-Causes-and-Significance--1971-1979-e307554\">The podcast<\/a><\/strong> cover the following factors:<br \/>Economic > the financial benefits of reducing arms expenditure for a US drained by the Vietnam War and for a USSR that faced a stalled economy and weak satellite states.<br \/>Military > both countries were deeply aware of their nuclear capabilities (MAD: mutually assured destruction), and having achieved parity, were more prepared to discuss arms limitation.<br \/>Politically > (a) the US potential gain from the Sino\u2013Soviet split by fostering separate relationships with both countries whilst driving them further apart;<br \/>Politically > (b) the Soviet wish to secure American recognition of the post-war borders of its satellite states;<br \/>Politically > (c) the impact of Ostpolitik which had relaxed tension in Europe and encouraged trade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The podcast cover the following factors:Economic > the financial benefits of reducing arms expenditure for a US drained by the Vietnam War and for a USSR that faced a stalled economy and weak satellite states.Military > both countries were deeply aware of their nuclear capabilities (MAD: mutually assured destruction), and having achieved parity, were more&#8230; <\/p>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/ib-history\/evaluate-the-causes-for-and-significance-of-the-policy-of-detente-between-the-us-and-ussr-between-1971-and-1979-podcast\/\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[14,6],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pAq0G-1wB","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5865"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5865"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5865\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5867,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5865\/revisions\/5867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}