Nixon: foreign affairs

Nixon ’ s right-hand man: Henry Kissinger National Security Advisor, Secretary of State,

The Vietnam War Finally Ends Vietnamization: Paris Peace Accords signed: January 27, 1973 April 1975: North Vietnamese take over Saigon, and unite the country as the Democratic Republic of Vietnam Communists took over neighboring Laos and Cambodia (new leader, Pol Pot, kills 2.5 million Cambodians)

Nixon ’ s most important contribution: Detente

Nixon and China Nixon: "There is no place on this small planet for a billion of its potentially most able people to live in angry isolation.” Relations between the Soviet Union and China had been deteriorating since the 1950s and had erupted into open conflict with border clashes in 1969

Nixon and China (cont.) China admitted to UN in 1971 April, 1971: “ping pong diplomacy” Nixon visits China for a week in February, 1972 In 1973, the two nations open offices in each other’s countries Nixon’s strategy:

Nixon ’ s Visit to China

Nixon and the Soviet Union Nixon: “There must be room in this world for two great nations with different systems to live together and work together.” 1st U.S. President to visit Moscow; May, 1972 to negotiate the First Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT I)

Nixon and Latin America U.S. works to destroy Chile’s elected socialist leader, Salvador Allende Nixon secretly gave the CIA $10 million to fund opponents to Allende Nixon cuts aid to Chile, blocks banks from lending money to them New U.S. supported-military dictator General Augusto Pinochet overthrows government and kills Allende Allende supporters were rounded up and detained in Santiago's National Stadium; over 1,000 executed.

The Middle East In 1967, Israel launched a preemptive attack on Egypt, Syria, and Jordan: “6 Day War” Israel occupied Egypt-controlled Gaza Strip and Sinai, Jordanian-controlled West Bank and East Jerusalem, Syria’s Golan Heights Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO): hijackings, murder of 11 Israeli athletes at 1972 Munich Olympics

1972 Olympics

Nixon and the Middle East (cont.) Yom Kippur War, October 6-25, 1973: Egypt and Syria attack Israel, invade Golan Heights and Sinai Peninsula

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