THE 1970S 1969 1979
FOREIGN POLICIES OF PRESIDENT NIXON
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realpolitik
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New Federalism
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Southern Strategy
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -détente, period of the easing of Cold War tensions between the U.S. and the Soviet Union from 1967 to 1979. The era was a time of increased trade and cooperation with the Soviet Union and the signing of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) treaties.
Detailed explanation-2: -The word realpolitik, coined in 1914, comes directly from German, in which it literally means “practical politics."
Detailed explanation-3: -Stagflation is the simultaneous appearance in an economy of slow growth, high unemployment, and rising prices. Once thought by economists to be impossible, stagflation has occurred repeatedly in the developed world since the 1970s. Policy solutions for slow growth tend to worsen inflation, and vice versa.