Lydia, Chris, Charlotte, Caitlin, Anastasija

The Prague Spring demonstrated limitations to Soviet control The Brezhnev Doctrine meant The Prague Spring was crushed by the USSR’s tanks. In the Brezhnev Doctrine it was made clear that the Soviet Union was determined “to keep in place the communist regimes that existed and would not allow them to be overthrown internally or externally” The wider implications of the Prague Spring were that The People’s Republic of China condemned the force used against fellow communists.

SALT talks began in Because of the economic stagnation the USSR faced, they wanted to limit the production of weapons. They also wanted direct peace with the USA and to avoid nuclear war. Border conflict with China also contributed to desire for détente with the USA. Thanks to détente, the US and USSR agreed to limit the number of ABMs they produced in In 1973 there was a Paris peace accord and the in 1975 there was the Helsinki final act.

After the Portuguese Revolution in 1974, the African territories were decolonised which led to a Civil War in Angola and Mozambique. The Popular Movement for the liberation of Angola received assistance from the Soviets. In Ethiopia the Soviets helped overthrow the regime of Haile Selassie and they put in a Communist revolutionary government, but it faced opposition from the Somali government.