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Ch.
32
Sect.
3
Nixon’s
Foreign
Policy
Objectives:
1.  Analyze
Henry
Kissinger’s
role
in
relaxing
tensions
between
the
U.S.
and
the
major
Communist
powers.
2.  Outline
Nixon’s
new
approach
toward
the
People’s
Republic
of
China.
3.  Describe
how
the
Nixon
administration
reached
an
agreement
with
the
Soviet
Union
on
limiting
nuclear
arms.
Main
Idea:
President
Nixon’s
foreign
policy
led
to
more
positive
relationships
with
China
and
the
Soviet
Union.
Kissinger
&
Détente
•  President
Nixon
relied
heavily
on
Henry
Kissinger,
his
Secretary
of
State
for
foreign
policy.
Nixon
believed
the
U.S.
could
run
domestically
without
a
president,
the
president
was
needed
for
diplomacy.
•  Nixon
helped
ease
the
tensions
of
the
Cold
War
or
détente.
•  Nixon
was
very
creative
in
dealing
with
the
Soviet
Union
and
China,
thanks
to
Kissinger.
Nixon
often
bypassed
Congress
and
his
advisors
when
dealing
with
the
Soviet
Union
and
China.
•  Kissinger
knew
that
there
was
just
as
much
tension
between
China
and
the
Soviet
Union,
as
between
the
U.S.
and
Soviet
Union.
Zhou
Enlai
&
Henry
Kissinger
in
Beijing
in
1971.
New
Approach
To
China
  Nixon
began
easing
the
U.S.
isolation
of
China
by
easing
trade
restrictions
and
other
regulations
in
1970.
  In
1971,
Kissinger
began
secret
negotiations
with
China
and
Nixon
announced
he
would
visit
China
in
1972.
  Nixon
wanted
to
use
the
new
Chinese
­
U.S.
friendship
as
a
bargaining
chip
with
the
Soviet
Union.
  The
U.S.
and
China
will
need
a
few
more
years
to
sign
formal
agreements,
but
the
basis
for
diplomatic
relations
between
the
U.S.
and
China
were
started
by
Nixon.
Mao
Zedong
&
Nixon
in
Beijing
1972
Détente
With
The
USSR
  Several
months
after
visiting
China,
Nixon
visited
the
Soviet
Union
and
met
with
Premier
Leonid
Brezhnev.
  The
two
nations
negotiated
a
weapons
pact,
agreed
to
work
together
to
explore
space,
and
eased
trade
limits.
  Nixon
entered
ofVice
wanted
to
dominate
the
Soviet
Union,
but
quickly
released
that
each
nation
had
more
than
enough
weapons
to
destroy
each
other
several
times
over.
Brezhnev
&
Nixon
1973
Reducing
Nuclear
Weapons
  Nixon
wanted
a
balance
of
power
between
the
superpowers,
starting
with
weapons
reduction.
  The
Strategic
Arms
Limitations
Talks
(SALT)
was
signed
when
Nixon
visited
Moscow.
SALT
I
was
a
Vive
year
agreement
to
keep
ICBMs
and
Submarine
launched
missiles
at
the
current
1972
levels
and
restricted
the
development
and
deployment
of
antiballistic
missiles.
  SALT
I
was
a
diplomatic
triumph,
but
did
little
to
reduce
the
number
of
warheads
between
the
two
nations
or
to
keep
them
from
improving
nuclear
weapons
in
other
way.
SALT
I
did
show
that
an
arms
reduction
treaty
was
possible
and
would
pave
the
way
for
future
treaties.