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Topic 8, Lesson 10: Nixon's Foreign Policy (1969-1972)
Nixon and End of The Vietnam War
Nixon’s 1968 Election pledge → “peace with honour”
Anti-war protests
The Tet Offensive
the media turned against the war
the economic cost of the Vietnam War → By 1968, cost was $26.5 billion causing rising inflation
Topic 8, Lesson 10: Nixon's Foreign Policy (1969-1972)
Nixon’s Escalation of the War in Vietnam
into Cambodia and Laos
Nixon ordered the secret bombing of Cambodia and Laos to destroy the Ho Chi Minh trail
lasted from 1969 to 1970
was kept secret from the US public because Nixon feared their reaction would be negative
Only discoverd in 1970 when the New York Times exposed it
Topic 8, Lesson 10: Nixon's Foreign Policy (1969-1972)
Nixon’s Madman Theory
Nixon wanted the Soviets and China to apply pressure to the North Vietnamese to end the war
Nixon told national security advisor Henry Kissenger to convey the United States might use nuclear weapons against the north if they did not negotiate oan end to the Vietnam War
Topic 8, Lesson 10: Nixon's Foreign Policy (1969-1972)
US-Chinese ‘Ping-Pong’ Diplomacy and Nixon’s Recognition of Communist China
improvement made between the two countries when the Chinese ping-pong team invited the US team to play in their country in 1971
friendly display was well publicised as the ping-pong team were among the first group of US citizens permitted to visit China since 1949
led to the restoration of Sino-US relations
Suno-Soviet split → worsened relations between China and Soviet Union after China denounced Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968
Nixon and Kissenger wanted to use China to counter Soviet power and force the USSR to detente
Ending the Vietnam War
Topic 8, Lesson 10: Nixon's Foreign Policy (1969-1972)
Nixon’s Detente with the Soviet Union
legacy of the Cuban Missile Crisis
Arms limitation talks
The Vietnam War
US recognition of Communist China
Topic 8, Lesson 10: Nixon's Foreign Policy (1969-1972)
The Helsinki Accords (1975)