1.  The Tet Offensive increased protest over American involvement in Vietnam  Violence at the Democratic presidential convention  Assassinations of Dr. Martian Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy

3.  Richard M Nixon  Republican  Law and Order Candidate  Secret plan to end the Vietnam War

4.  Nixon was career politician who had mixed success  VP under Eisenhower  You either trusted him or disliked him

5.  Nixon beats Hubert Humphrey  He wins by only one percentage point  Democrats control both houses of congress  Republicans back in White House

6. Nixon came in with an idea called New Conservativism 1969 Wanted to return a sense of order Wanted to bring an end to war, end the divide

7.  Nix fought with Liberal elements of society  Clashed with anti war  Deescalated war, oversaw peace negotiations  Promised to end urban violence and protests  Appealed to Silent Majority  Used Agnew to confront anti war

8.  His cabinet members were all wealthy and white  They all shared his views  However Nixon often relied on two key people  His Chief of Staff  Sec. of State

10.  He wanted to ease cold war tension with the Soviet Union  He wanted to establish a relationship with China  The man for this job  Henry Kissinger

11.  Henry (Heinz) Kissinger  Jewish  Family Fled Nazi Germany when he was 15  Undergrad, grad and PHD from Harvard University  Faculty member at Harvard  Professor of Government

12.  Kissinger didn't believe in massive retaliation warfare  Believed in limited nuclear war  Realpoltik (practical politics)  He was much like Nixon  Secretive and Suspicious

13.  dey-tahnt  French Word  meaning release from tension  is the name given to a period of improved relations between the United States and the Soviet Union

14.  1949 became Communist  They had no diplomatic relations with the U.S.  Deep tensions between the Soviet Union and China exited  Nixon and Kissinger view this as a chance to drive a wedge between the USSR and China

15.  In order to drive that wedge Nixon eased some trade restrictions with China  1972 Nixon traveled to China  First U.S. President to travel to China

16.  Recognize the Peoples Republic of China as a legit government  Give them a seat in the United Nations  Bargaining chip with the Soviet Union  Press coverage would boost him at home  He met with Mao Zedong

17. Nixon toured the Great Wall all for photo ops He played the press to his advantage This permitted him to keep public attention focused on his foreign policy achievements rather than his domestic problems

18.  Nixon visited the secretary-general of the Soviet Communist party, Leonid I. Brezhnev, in Moscow, May 1972  given the growing antagonism between Russia and China, Brezhnev had no wish to see his most potent rivals close ranks against him  Both countries stood to gain if trade could be increased and the danger of nuclear warfare reduced.

19.  On May 22 Nixon became the first U.S. president to visit Moscow. He and Brezhnev signed seven agreements covering the prevention of accidental military clashes;

20.  Strategic Arms Limitation Talks  30 months of negations  cooperative research in a variety of areas, including space exploration; and expanded commerce  Limited the number of Inter continental missiles and sub lunched missiles held by both countries at 1972 levels for 5 years  Restricted the development of defensive antiballistic missiles

21.  Was this treaty strong or weak in controlling nuclear arms?  Was this a pure political move?