When President Reagan came into office, he decided to stop the era of detente and re-ignite the arms race with the USSR. He though the USA could beat the USSR in the Cold War by out sourcing them. He would drastically increase the military spending in order to crumble the weaker USSR economy. The much more stable pillars that private companies provided the capitalists made it hard for the Russians to keep up with the spending. Even when the USSR was keeping up with the technology, their government owned companies didn't profit from the research or production. The USA on the other hand, not only got more jobs, it strengthened it's economy. The USA beat the USSR in the cold war by breaking their economy to the point of them giving up the arms race due to not being able to even keep up the USA's pace of production.
Detente events were very effective in lessening in decreasing tension during the Cold War
Four main events were: Nuclear and Strategic Parity Nuclear Proliferation treaty The Helsinki Accords The SALT talks The Helsinki Accords had the largest effect in lessening tensions during the Cold War, this helped the USSR and the USA to focus on other things for a little while. There were victories for both sides the USSR with the european borders and the USA with the respect of the Human Rights, and the border crossing. This wasn't something that questioned war such as the Nuclear talks and the weapons talks, this was a matter not directly related which helped get some tension of the war. With the unwanted intervention of the USA in Vietnam caused the people to turn on the USA, while they did have some supporters, they were a clear minority. The Vietnam war started with a questionable event that he USA claims happened, for which there is no proof of.The Communists supported what the Vietnamese wanted more, therefore, they sided with them. The North launched several very successful offensives against the USA, while they USA generally retaliated with more straight, the North made their victories, public relations. They used the media way more and in a better way than the USA therefore their victories were more known than that of the USA's. The USA wanted to go into Vietnam to prevent the spread of Communism in the Domino Theory. This occurred after the USA pulled out of Vietnam, both Vietnam and their neighbors were quickly turned to communism therefore rendering the intentions of the USA in that are useless and losing them the war.
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