Questions 1-3 ref er to the excerpt below. Unlike some anticommunists ..... I have always believed that we can and must communicate and, when possible, negotiate with Communist nations ..... There were, however, a few things in our favor. The most important and interesting was the Soviet split with China ..... It was often said that the key to a Vietnam settlement lay in Moscow and Peking rather than in Hanoi. . .. Aside from wanting to keep Hanoi from going over to Peking, Moscow had little stake in the outcome of the North Vietnamese cause, especially as it increasingly worked against Moscows own major interests vis-a-vis the United States. While I understood that the Soviets were not entirely free agents where their support for North Vietnam was concerned, I nonetheless planned to bring maximum pressure to bear on them in this area.-Richard Nixon, RN:Memoirs of Richard Nixon, 1978Which of the following best explains why Nixons foreign policy was a departure from the previous administrations?

FOREIGN POLICIES OF PRESIDENT NIXON

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Questions 1-3 ref er to the excerpt below. “Unlike some anticommunists ____ I have always believed that we can and must communicate and, when possible, negotiate with Communist nations ____ “There were, however, a few things in our favor. The most important and interesting was the Soviet split with China ____ “It was often said that the key to a Vietnam settlement lay in Moscow and Peking rather than in Hanoi. . .. Aside from wanting to keep Hanoi from going over to Peking, Moscow had little stake in the outcome of the North Vietnamese cause, especially as it increasingly worked against Moscow’s own major interests vis-a-vis the United States. While I understood that the Soviets were not entirely free agents where their support for North Vietnam was concerned, I nonetheless planned to bring maximum pressure to bear on them in this area.”-Richard Nixon, RN:Memoirs of Richard Nixon, 1978Which of the following best explains why Nixon’s foreign policy was a departure from the previous administrations’?

A	He was the first president willing to negotiate with Communist leaders.
B	He was willing to use massive bombing to force an issue.
C	He turned over his foreign policy to his national security adviser.
D	He exploited that Communism was not a unified world movement.

Explanation:

Detailed explanation-1: -The containment strategy also provided the rationale for an unprecedented arms buildup in the United States. In 1950, a National Security Council Report known as NSC–68 had echoed Truman’s recommendation that the country use military force to contain communist expansionism anywhere it seemed to be occurring.

Detailed explanation-2: -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.

Detailed explanation-3: -détente, period of the easing of Cold War tensions between the U.S. and the Soviet Union from 1967 to 1979.

Detailed explanation-4: -Fanned by the fear of Communist expansion and the rapid deterioration of European economies in the winter of 1946–1947, Congress passed the Economic Cooperation Act in March 1948 and approved funding that would eventually rise to over $12 billion for the rebuilding of Western Europe.

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USA HISTORY

THE 1970S 1969 1979

FOREIGN POLICIES OF PRESIDENT NIXON