1. Think About Why is our current relationship with Iran so bad? Should we seek to improve it and if so, how?

2. Nixon and the Cold War 1969-75

3. Nixon’s Foreign Policy Henry Kissinger Secretary of State Détente: Easing of tension Realpolitik: Deal with world as it is, not as you’d like it to be

4. Critical Thinking What are some examples of modern-day Realpolitik?

5. Détente: Nixon in China 1969: Nixon follows “Two China” policy Recognizes both PRC and Taiwan

6. Détente US Ping Pong Team visits in 1971 “Ping Pong Diplomacy” End of Vietnam War leads to opportunity for normalizing relations

7. Détente: Nixon in China 1971: UN recognizes PRC, expels Taiwan 1972: Nixon and wife visit China One China Policy

8. Election of 1972: Democrats Democrats disorganized Eugene McCarthy George McGovern Ed Muskie Hubert Humphrey Nixon’s “dirty tricks” campaign

9. Watergate Break-in June 17, 1972 Republican operatives break into Democratic Party HQ in Watergate Hotel Did the White House know? Election of 1972: Democrats

12. Chile Salvador Allende, Socialist Elected 1971 Nationalizes Chilean mines ITT (US Corporation) assets seized CIA seeks to undermine Allende

13. Chile Coup d’état: September 11, 1973 Aided by CIA Allende trapped in Presidential Palace Commits suicide Gen. Augusto Pinochet is new leader During rule, thousands tortured and “disappeared”

14. Détente with USSR Leonid Brezhnev becomes leader of USSR in 1964 Sees Sino-US relations improving; fears anti-Soviet alliance

15. Détente with USSR Starts round of negotiations 1969: Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) Acknowledged Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD) Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty 1972

16. Détente with USSR President Gerald Ford continues Nixon’s policy SALT I Treaty signed Nov. 1974 Effectively froze number of nuclear missiles at existing level Halted arms race President Ford Brezhnev

17. Détente with USSR 1975: Helsinki Final Act Set final borders in Europe