President Nixon had to pay a certain amount of money ($2.3million) in order to get the Soviet Union off his nuts
President Richard Nixon ended the detente with the soviets
Richard Nixon
Nixon was trying to achieve detente with USSR and China. He offered them concessions if they would persuade Hanoi to end the Vietnam war.
There were two different leaders during that time. Nikita Khruschev was leader when Nixon became president in 1969. He died in 1971 and was succeeded by Leonid Brezhnev, who was there for the rest of Nixon's term.
Detente
President Richard Nixon ended the detente with the soviets
Richard Nixon
Richard Nixon was president from 1969-1974, therefore beginning detente with the Soviet Union (USSR) and China. Detente lasted from 1972-1979, ending when the Soviet Union invaded Afghanistan. Detente was marked by SALT I and II (Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty) and space cooperation.
The policy of detente, also known as the Nixon Doctrine, was created to relax tensions between the 2 superpowers, The Soviet Union and the United States. Detente is a spanish word meaning "relaxation of tensions."
Nixon was trying to achieve detente with USSR and China. He offered them concessions if they would persuade Hanoi to end the Vietnam war.
There were two different leaders during that time. Nikita Khruschev was leader when Nixon became president in 1969. He died in 1971 and was succeeded by Leonid Brezhnev, who was there for the rest of Nixon's term.
Detente
the anti-ballistic missile (ABM)
Richard Nixon was the first American President to visit the People's Republic of China since it was established in 1949. Nixon and Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai agreed to exchange cultural contacts between the two nations. Nixon helped establish the Open Door Policy, which ensured that all nations had equal trading privileges with China.
a balance of power
Kissinger
Detente' is actually a form of peaceful coexistence. It was pursued by all the US presidents after the death of Stalin. Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev was a proponent of this policy as well.