Current Im an AP European History student that has a question on the Helsinki agreement which I'm currently fuzzy on understanding due to my history book saying one thing and my teacher saying the other.
To sum it up, our history book says the Helsinki agreement in 1975 has provisions that dealt with human rights and the prohibition of force to change Europe's political borders.
While my Euro teacher tried to argue that it's was prohibiting the proliferation of nuclear weapons because it was a policy of détente. (Which I understood as more of a SALT provision)
My teacher eventually allowed us to get the point for following the book.
The question is #5 on this and we all put C and the teacher said it was A.
So who was right on the matter?
TL:DR- what was the provisions of the Helsinki conference in 1975
Thanks for any help and sorry mods if I messed up anything.
The Helsinki Accords addressed numerous things. You can easily read them yourself.
They include the following point directly addressing human rights and territorial integrity: "The participating States will respect the equal rights of peoples and their right to self-determination, acting at all times in conformity with the purposes and principles of the Charter of the United Nations and with the relevant norms of international law, including those relating to territorial integrity of States."
It contains nothing about nuclear weapons or non-proliferation.
Your teacher may be confusing them with the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty of 1968. Or with SALT Agreement of 1972 (which is not about proliferation but about arms control between the two nuclear superpowers — not the same thing). Or maybe even confusing it with Reykjavik (different country, different time, but related to nuclear weapons and Scandinavian-ish).
C is certainly the intended right answer in this case. While Helsinki was part of detente, detente was more than about just nuclear non-proliferation. None of the other answers characterize Helsinki correctly.
