1. Nixon’s Foreign Policy

2. Realpolitik and Détente
Read “Kissinger and Realpolitik” on page 1005 and answer the following questions
What is realpolitik?
Do you think that the US should run its foreign policy based on realpolitik?
What was détente?

3. President Nixon attempted to reduce tensions between the US and the main communist nations
Nixon made the first steps towards normalizing relations with China
Nixon visited China in 1972
Opened up diplomatic and economic relations between the US and China
Nixon reduced tensions with the USSR
Made the first visit by a US president to the Soviet capital
Nixon and the Soviet leader, Leonid Brezhnev, signed the SALT I Treaty
SALT = Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
Capped the number of intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) for each country at 1972 levels

4. Primary Source
Read “US-China Joint Communiqué” and define each of the following terms
Essential
6. Obstructing
11. Reaffirms
2. Sovereignty
7. Installations
12. Prospect
3. Resorting
8. Advocate
13. Progressively
4. Mutual
9. Acknowledges
5. Disputes
10. Challenge