President Richard Nixon’s 1972 visit to China, an unexpected pivot in U.S. foreign policy, helped end the Cold War. But it ...

Nixon, advised by Henry Kissinger, capitalized on existing fractures between leaders in China and Russia, created by ...

Plus, the situation in the former Soviet Union was extremely fluid ... s 41st president could turn to for advice: its 37th, Richard Nixon. That advice took the form of a seven page memo, the ...

Soviet premier Leonid Brezhnev wanted a better relationship with America, and U.S. president Richard Nixon, who was worried about the possibility of nuclear war and preoccupied by the Vietnam ...

One of Richard M. Nixon’s greatest achievements was improving U.S. relations with China and the Soviet Union. With Henry Kissinger, he negotiated Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I) in 1972 to ...

FOLLOWING his opponent's strategy in 1960, Richard ... Soviet Union could still effectively destroy the United States, even after absorbing the full weight of an American first strike. Nixon ...

Richard Nixon. Although some opposed the tremendous outlay of taxpayer dollers to put a man on the moon, most Americans united in support of NASA's work against a common threat: Soviet domination ...

US president Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev, leader of the Soviet Union, at the signing of SALT I in 1972 There were two Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) agreed between the USA and the ...

I n 1959, at the opening of the American National Exhibition in Moscow, in front of a model American kitchen full of appliances, Vice President Richard Nixon and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev ...