Salt {strategic arms. limitations treaty} i salt ii and start treaties were all examples of the united states

a. trying to diffuse tensions in western europe

b. trying to diffuse tensions to the middle east

c. failing to address military issue during the era of the cold war

d. working with soviet union to reduce the levels of nuclear weapons

SALT I (Strategic Arms Limitations Treaty), SALT II, and start treaties were all examples of the United States:  

(D) Working with the Soviet Union to reduce the levels of nuclear weapons.

In 1970, the USSR and the United States shared the same vision. They wanted to reduce their strategic weapons, such as missiles and the nuclear bomb, to avoid another great war that would be terrible for the whole planet. On the other hand, the possession of its weapons was expensive, and the two great powers have economic difficulties. Because the United States spent a lot of money after the Vietnam war and the USSR had damage from communism.

These agreements were made in two stages, the first in 1972 (SALT I), and the second in 1979 (SALT II). In the SALT I Treaty, Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev agreed to limit the construction of launch ramps and missile. In SALT II, it was Jimmy Carter, the new president of the United States, who pursued the policy of the previous president and signed with Brezhnev the prohibition of nuclear weapons in space and the continuation of the SALT I agreements. These two treaties allowed the relations between the Eastern block and the Western block to be better and lead towards the complete end of the cold war that would happen about ten years later.

Subject: History  

Chapter: The Origins of the Cold War, 1945–1949

Keywords: The cold war, the USSR, the United States, the nuclear bomb, SALT I Treaty, SALT II Treaty, the SALT I treaty proved that, SALT 2 treaty signed

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