For the first part of class we went over some semester test details.
1970 Peace Attempts
Detente-relaxation, meant to make international affairs cease, all sides feared nuclear war, china didn't want to be isolated, Sovets had bad relations with china, US needed better way to contain communism and we were running out of money recovering from vietnam
SALT I (strategic arms limitation talks) held to limit the number of newly created nuclear weapons, both sides agreed not to increase their number of missiles
SALT II, experiment of negotiations between Carter and Brezhnev, aimed to restrict manufacturing of nuclear weapons, banned new missiles programs, never actually passed because of Soviet invasion of Afghanistan
Nixon's Visit to China
1972, visited china who had been isolated from us since 1949, arrived February 21, shook hands with Mao Zedong, used Warsaw, president of Pakistan agreed to help with communications, met with premier of china who said he'd think about it, Kissinger set up Nixon's visit and helped with Operation Marco Polo
talks were about control of north vietnam, china had no interest, also our war eith vietnam, china and them were allies, chinese wanted us to pull out immediately, no negotiations, chinese wanted to discuss their relations with the Soviets, we both recognized the Soviets as a threat, wanted Taiwan back from chiang "all chinese on each side of taiwan straight consider there to be one china and that taiwan is a part of china", established clear understanding of foreign policies, raised Nixon's approval ratings, main objective was to prevent nuclear war
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