Semester Test- Monday at 7:55-8:05
Nixon Visits China
since china had a communist leader, we really didnt wnat to get involved with them
If china had not gone the route of being communist there would have been no war in Korea and Vietnam
Ping Pong Diplomacy- On April 1971 our all american ping pong team revieved a suprise invitiation to come play at the peoples republic in china
this broke the tensions between the US and China
Mao Zedong knew china's biggest threat was the soviet union
this is why he wnated us to gain trust in him so he wouldnt be facing enemies on both sides
mao zedong wanted to conquer taiwan which was originally pat of China. Mao zedong enemy took it over which was Chiang Kai Shek.
Nixon considered Taiwan and Vietnam as irritants
he felt they were always getting in the way of what he was trying to accomplish
nixon passed a document in the middle of the night
the docunment did not address who should be the leader of this one China
this caused a great disturbance between the state department camp and the white house camp
Taiwan today is still seperated from China
document stated that chinese people on both sides of the taiwan strait should believe there is one china and that taiewan is a part of china
1970's Peace Attempts
peace corps- doctors, engineers, and horticulturists.
peace corps officals believe these volunteers would have a multiplier effect meaning they will trasfer their talents to host country nationals who will, in turn, share these skills with their fellow citizens
go into other countries and help them become stronger
Detente- a permananent relaxation in international affairs during the cold war
a word usually assosicated with America, Russia, and China
Salt I- stragetegic arms limitation talks
involved US and SOviet Union on the issue of armament control
Salt I led to Anti- Ballistic Missile Treaty
Salt II- controversial experiment of negotiations between Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev
south to curtail the manufature of nuclear weapons
Salt II never actually happened.
Effects of the Soviet's Invasion of Afghanistan
When 1979 was the date of invasion
1988 was the date the soviet troops withdrew
the soviets financed the Afghans and lead some of their military
they had a leader Taraki that was overthrown my Amin
eventuallky Amin was killed by soviets and najiballah was pout into power as president of Afghanistan
not to take over but to help strengthen the communist government that was in power
the invasion was not typical it was trying to help
a 10 year civil war between soviet troops and afghan guerrillas or mujahideen
this truned into a "holy war"
the people we were helping we found out were terroristis like Al Queda
the soviets had pretty good control over the guerrillas
they fled into overrun cities the soviets already demolished
the guerrillas also fled into Iran and Pakistan
soviets would kill innocent citizens as payback for guerrilla attacks
they also spread tons of land mines
the guerrillas would start turning the soviet army around when the soliders started losing motivation to keep fighting
while this was happeneing the UN voted that the soviets being in Afghanistan was not right
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