THE 1970S 1969 1979
FOREIGN POLICIES OF PRESIDENT NIXON
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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The support of the Communist leaders in the Soviet Union.
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His long history of being a hard-line opponent of communism.
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Mao Zedong’s belief that the Cultural Revolution had failed.
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His belief that Americans trusted China more than the Soviet Union.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The reason for opening up China was for the U.S. to gain more leverage over relations with the Soviet Union. Resolving the Vietnam War was a particularly important factor.
Detailed explanation-2: -Basically, Nixon played China and the Soviet Union off of each other. By improving relations with China, Nixon felt he could drive a wedge in between China and the Soviet Union (the two most powerful communist nations in the world) and therefore improve the United States’s relationship with both of them.
Detailed explanation-3: -Nixon and his National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger came to believe that by thawing relations with the Chinese and bringing them into the “society of nations, ” America could gain a powerful new ally in its negotiations with both the North Vietnamese and the Soviets.
Detailed explanation-4: -In an amazing turn of events, President Richard Nixon takes a dramatic first step toward normalizing relations with the communist People’s Republic of China (PRC) by traveling to Beijing for a week of talks.