Detente Crossword

4. The leader of North Vietnam during the Vietnam War.
6. The _______-Soviet split
9. A series of security and cooperation agreements from 1975, aimed at reducing tension between the Soviet and Western blocs.
12. The leader of Russia during the period of detente.
13. The West German attempt to engage with its Eastern bloc neighbours
14. Signed in 1972, where the US and the USSR agreed to a limited number of ballistic missiles, as well as a limited number of missile deployment sites.

1. The establishment/resumption of friendly diplomatic relations between two countries (in this case, China and the USA).
2. The USA’s most strategic ally in the Middle East.
3. The theory that motivated the US to involve itself in conflicts in the Asian region in order to contain communism.
5. The American President that implements ‘Vietnamisation’ and withdraws US troops from Vietnam.
7. The location of the 1972 Summit which results in the signing of the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty and the first Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty
8. In 1973, this war in the Middle East led to an oil embargo placed on the USA.
10. The event that is considered to signal the end of the period of detente - The Soviet invasion of _______.
11. A French word meaning ‘a relaxation of tension between states’.