USA HISTORY

THE 1970S 1969 1979

FOREIGN POLICIES OF PRESIDENT NIXON

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Nixon pursued this policy when he ended Great Society programs and gave more control to states
A
detente
B
deterrence
C
new federalism
D
checks and balances
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -The US foreign policy during the presidency of Richard Nixon (1969–1974) focused on reducing the dangers of the Cold War among the Soviet Union and China. President Richard Nixon’s policy sought on détente with both nations, which were hostile to the U.S. and to each other.

Detailed explanation-2: -Vietnamization was a policy of the Richard Nixon administration to end U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War through a program to “expand, equip, and train South Vietnamese forces and assign to them an ever-increasing combat role, at the same time steadily reducing the number of U.S. combat troops".

Detailed explanation-3: -Nixonomics, a portmanteau of the words “Nixon” and “economics", refers to U.S. President Richard Nixon’s economic performance. Nixon is the first president to have his surname combined with the word “economics".

Detailed explanation-4: -The primary objective of New Federalism, unlike that of the eighteenth-century political philosophy of Federalism, is the restoration to the states of some of the autonomy and power which they lost to the federal government as a consequence of President Franklin Roosevelt’s New Deal.

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