Richard Nixon
Nixon and His Key Foreign Policy Adviser
Whoops Nixon and Henry Kissinger Nixon and Henry Kissinger
Nixon-Kissinger Decision Making NSC Process NSC Process RN-HAK Process RN-HAK Process President NSC NSC Staff Depts Nixon Kissinger NSC Staff
Why Détente? Strategic parity Strategic parity Sino-Soviet Split Sino-Soviet Split Viet Nam Syndrome Viet Nam Syndrome
Strategic Parity Stockpiles
Stalin (and Twin)
Soviet Leaders: General Secretary of the CPSU Nikita KhrushchevLeonid Brezhnev
Sino-Soviet Split Mao Zedong Mao Zedong Chairman of CCP Chairman of CCP Zhou Enlai Zhou Enlai Premier and FM Premier and FM
Prague Spring 1968
Soviet-Chinese Border Crisis 1969 Amur River Ussuri RiverKhabarovsk
Viet Nam Syndrome Nixon recognizes this: Nixon Doctrine Nixon Doctrine Remarks July 25, 1969 (see Q and A)Remarks July 25, 1969 (see Q and A)Remarks July 25, 1969 Remarks July 25, 1969 Address to the nation, Nov. 3, 1969Address to the nation, Nov. 3, 1969Address to the nationAddress to the nation
Detente 1. Still containment 2. New Goal: Change USSR behavior 3. Old-school Balance of Power
Détente Policies: Mutual Deterrence Strategic Arms Limitation Talks Strategic Arms Limitation Talks Interim Agreement on Offensive ArmsInterim Agreement on Offensive ArmsInterim Agreement on Offensive ArmsInterim Agreement on Offensive Arms Anti-Ballistic Missile TreatyAnti-Ballistic Missile TreatyAnti-Ballistic Missile TreatyAnti-Ballistic Missile Treaty US USSR
May 1972 Summit in Moscow
Détente Policies: Triangular Diplomacy US USSR PRC
Kissinger to China, July 1971
Nixon-Mao Summit in China, February 1972 Shanghai Communique Shanghai Communique
China and Taiwan
Views of Israel/Palestine
Post-1967
Detail of 1990s