We continued with presentations again today. We don't have too many left.
Nixon goes to China
- Ping Pong Diplomacy- our all American Ping- Pong team recieved a suprise invitation to come play at the People's Republic in China
- this broke tentions between us and China
- Mao Zedong wanted us to gain trust in him so that he wouldn't have enemies on both sides
- Mao Zedong wanted to conquer Taiwan which was origionally a part of China
- Nixon passed a document saying that Taiwan should be believed to be a part of China
- the document did not address who should be the leader of this "one China"
- Taiwan today is still seperated from China
1970's Peace Attempts
- Peace Corps- doctors, engineers, and horticulturists accounted for more than a fifth of the volunteers
- believed these volunteers would have a "multiplier effect" meaning they will transfer workers to different locations
- As the Peace Corps got older so did the people that were volunteering
- Detente is a permanent relaxation to ease political tention in international affairs during the cold war
- this was usually associated with America and Russia
- Salt 1-Strategic Arms Limitation Talks.
- Inolved US and Soviet Union on the issue of armanent control
- Salt 1 led to Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty
- Salt 2 - Controversial experiment of negotiations between Jimmy Carter and Leonid Brezhnev
- Salt 2 never actually happened
Effects of the Soviet's invasion of Afghanistan
- the date of the invasion was December 1979
- April 14, 1988 was when the Soviet Union left Afghanistan
- they financed Afghanistan and lead some of their military
- Afghanistan was basically run by the soviets and they were unhappy with how it was being run
- Soviets wanted to strenghten Afghanistan because they had a communist government
- a 10 year civil war between Soviet troops and Afghan guerillas or mujahideen
- this turned into a jihad or 'holy war'
- the Guerrillas were armed by the US and allies
- they were trained in Pakistan
- the soviets had pretty good control over the guerillas
- Guerillas would start turning the Soviet army around when the soldiers started losing motivation to keep fighting
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