Transcript President Nixon and Foreign Policy

President Nixon and Foreign
Policy
Opening to China
• Ping Pong Diplomacy
• Forrest Gump Clip:
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WB41zC
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Opening to China
• Page 11 timeline books.
• A breakthrough of sorts occurred in the spring
of 1971, when Mao Zedong invited an
American table tennis team to China for some
exhibition matches.
Ping Pong Diplomacy
• The players and journalists were invited to
play and to cover the team’s visit, ending the
information blockade of China in place since
1949.
Opening to China
• The announcement that the President would
make an unprecedented trip to Beijing caused
a sensation among the American people.
• Nixon's visit to China in February 1972 was
widely televised and heavily viewed. It was
only a first step, but a decisive one, in the
growing relationship between the two states.
Detente With the Soviet Union
• Detente: an easing of relations (from tense)
• The announcement of the Beijing summit
produced an immediate improvement in
American relations with the U.S.S.R.—namely,
an invitation for Nixon to meet with Soviet
premier Leonid Brezhnev in Russia.
Detente With the Soviet Union
• It was a sign that Nixon's effort at
"triangulation" was working; fear of improved
relations between China and America was
leading the Soviets to better their own
relations with America, just as Nixon hoped.
SALT Treaty
• Page 11 timeline books.
• Of more lasting importance were the treaties
the two men signed to control the growth of
nuclear arms. The agreements—a Strategic
Arms Limitation Treaty and an Anti-Ballistic
Missile treaty—did not end the arms race, but
they paved the way for future pacts which
sought to reduce and eliminate arms.
SALT I
• SALT I limited the number of SLBM capable
submarines that NATO and the United States
could operate to 50 with a maximum of 800
SLBM launchers between them. If the United
States or NATO were to increase that number,
the USSR could respond with increasing their
arsenal by the same amount.
Yom Kippur War
• When Egypt and Syria attacked Israel on
Judaism's holiest day, Yom Kippur, they were
backed up by Gulf oil states that announced a
price increase of 70 percent; and when Nixon
asked Congress for emergency aid to Israel,
Yom Kippur War
The First Oil Embargo
• Page 23 timeline book.
• Arab officials imposed a total embargo on oil
shipments to the United States. American
dependence on foreign oil meant the crisis
would not be resolved on military terms
alone.
Watergate Document Activity
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ml6o40s
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