PRESIDENT NIXON

VIETNAMIZATION/ END OF VIETNAM WAR

• President Nixon announced Vietnamization so that he could pull out
• U.S troops and build up the South Vietnam army so that South Vietnam could
• take responsibility for the Vietnam War. After the South and the North fought
• with little help of U.S troops for a couple years, the Paris Peace Accords were
• signed completely withdrawing U.S troops from Vietnam.

DETENTE

• Détente in a French word that means release from tension and this describes the relations between
• between the U.S. and The Soviet Union that began in 1971.
• It took a decisive form when Nixon decided to visit Leonid Brezhnev in Moscow, May 1972.
• He and Brezhnev signed seven agreements covering the prevention of accidental military clashes;
• arms control, as described by SALT 1.

SALT 1

• SALT 1 was the first series of strategic arms limitation talks that occurred in November 1969 between
• President Richard Nixon and Brezchev. During this time, the Soviet Union and the United States
• Discussed and negotiated terms to place limits on nuclear weapons. SALT 1 froze the number of
• Ballistic launchers and allowed new submarine launched ballistic missiles only after the same number
• Of older intercontinental ballistic missiles were dismantled.

NIXONS VISITS TO CHINA

• Nixon arrived in China on February 21, 1972 and he was the first president
• to visit the People's Republic of China since it was established in 1949
• The U.S. was looking at improving relations with the communist country during the Cold War.
• He met with the Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai and they agreed to expand cultural contacts between the two of
• them. Nixon also established plans for a permanent U.S. trade mission in China.

WATERGATE

• On June 17, 1972 robbers were arrested inside the office on the Democratic
• National committee trying to wiretap phones and steal documents. They were connected
• To the reelection campaign of president Richard Nixon. Nixon tried to pay the robbers off, destroyed
• Evidence and fired uncooperative employees, but eventually the scandal got out and ended in Nixon resigning
• Ford later pardoned Nixon when he became president.