diplomacy (era of detente)

richard nixon
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richard nixon
President of the United States from 1969 to 1974 who followed a foreign policy marked by détente with the Soviet Union and by the opening of diplomatic relations with China. In the face of likely impeachment for the Watergate scandal, he resigned.
peace with honor
ping-pong diplomacy
• during the 1970's when Nixon was trying to get on good terms with China he sent a trade of ping pong players to compete against the Chinese ping pong players. By becoming friends with the Chinese Nixon was able to work out foreign affairs that other presidents could not handle.
salt agreement
Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty -1972 agreement between the US and the Soviet Union on limiting nuclear weapons. It was agreed to keep missile at 1972 levels for 5 years
shuttle diplomacy
In the 1970s, Secretary of State Henry Kissinger began an intensive campaign in which he moved back and forth from Israel to Egypt to Syria to try to reach a peace settlement
ussr
the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, or Soviet Union, formed in 1922 by the Communists and officially dissolved in 1991
presidential summit diplomacy
When Nixon first opened the door to China in 1972, the United States' primary objective in the relationship was to pit China against America's primary rival of the time, the Soviet Union, as part of America's Cold War policy. After the fall of the Soviet Union at the end of the Cold War, the Sino-American relationship entered uncharted territory. Summit meetings evolved between American and Chinese Executives from 1972 to 2004, meetings between these heads of government in multinational settings, leaders in these countries have been able to maintain bilateral meetings in this new global environment