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The United States had long linked trade with the Soviet Union to its foreign policy toward the Soviet Union and, especially since the early 1980s, to Soviet human rights policies. The Jackson-Vanik Amendment , which was attached to the 1974 Trade Act , linked the granting of most-favored-nation to the USSR to the right of persecuted Soviet Jews ...
Pages in category "Soviet Union–United States relations" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 314 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
List of initialisms, acronyms ("words made from parts of other words, pronounceable"), and other abbreviations used by the government and the military of the United States. Note that this list is intended to be specific to the United States government and military—other nations will have their own acronyms.
Though US President Dwight D. Eisenhower was also infuriated at the invasion and had successfully brought an end to end to Suez Crisis by pressuring the invading forces to withdraw from Egypt by early 1957, [108] the United States continued to maintain good relations with Britain, France and Israel and sought to limit Soviet ally Nasser's ...
The Soviet Union was the world's second largest producer of harmful emissions. In 1988, total emissions in the Soviet Union were about 79% of those in the United States. But since the Soviet GNP was only 54% of that of the United States, this means that the Soviet Union generated 1.5 times more pollution than the United States per unit of GNP. [20]
List of U.S. government and military acronyms; List of U.S. Air Force acronyms and expressions; List of nicknames of United States Army divisions; List of United States Marine Corps acronyms and expressions; List of U.S. Navy acronyms
The US and Soviet Union saw détente differently. The US saw détente as an encouragement of changes in Soviet Union domestic and foreign policy. The Soviets saw détente as influencing only foreign policy, not domestic issues. [3] What they did have in common was a shared interest in avoiding a nuclear war.
Moscow Summit (1988) postage stamps, Spasskaya Tower and handshake Soviet Union–United States summits were held from 1943 to 1991. The topics discussed at the summits between the president of the United States and either the general secretary or the premier of the Soviet Union ranged from fighting the Axis Powers during World War II to arms control between the two superpowers themselves ...