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On February 21, 1972 Richard M. Nixon shook hands with Premier Chou En-lai Very Historic handshake in political history because China was is communist. w.gmu.edu

 Strategic Arms Limitation Talks  Agreement to stop all usage or construction of long range missile launchers on both sides (U.S. and Soviets)  Nixon and General Secretary Brezhnev signed a treaty which was a temporary agreement not to use strategic firearms on May 26 th, 1972 

 Strategic Arms Limitation Talks II had pretty much the same idea as SALT I.  The difference was that instead of having a temporary stop on the usage of the long range missile launchers they wanted to make it permanent.  The treaty was signed by President Carter and General Secretary Brezhnev in Vienna on June 18, 1979 

 Salvador Allende Gossens was the socialist leader of Chile.  Nixon did not want him in power  The CIA was involved in trying to instigate a military take over.  In 1973 the military took over his palace and he died fighting. 

 February 11 th, 1977 Mengistu Haile Mariam became the leader of the military in Ethiopia.  Somalia's leader knew there were problems with Ethiopia's military so they attacked.  With double the forces Somalia took over The Ogaden.  North Korea, Cuba, and the Soviet Union saw this as a threat so they helped Ethiopia get The Ogaden back.  m

 President Nixon signed a cease fire agreement.  With out help from the U.S. the Saigon government could not stop the north  Americans got evacuated and Vietnamese tried to leave 

 It was basically a hydrogen bomb that was stronger.  It did not have the Uranium jacket which makes the blast stronger.  It is 13 times stronger than the atom bomb.  ml

Afghan War It started in 1972 and ended in 1992 Initially involved an estimated 30,000 troops, a force that ultimately grew to 100,000. They received aid from the United States, China, and Saudi Arabia. To battle the Soviets.

On November 4,1979 Iranian militants stormed the United States Embassy in Tehran. They took seventy Americans hostage. It lasted 444 days. There no casualties. com/ce6/history/A html

 Towards the end of the Vietnamese war there was an increase in Vietnamese children being adopted.  Gerald Ford had allocated 2 million dollars for 30 flights to Vietnam to pick up orphan baby’s.  On of the first flights had had a problem and wreck there were 330 people and baby’s aboard and 174 baby’s were killed in the crash.

 As president, Carter created two new cabinet-level departments: the department of energy and the department of education He established a national energy policy that included conservation, price decontrol, and new technology. Foreign oil imports were reduced by 50% from 1977 to n foreign affairs, Carter pursued the camp david accords the panama canal treaties. and the second round of Strategic Arms Limitation Talks.

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