Chapter 5 – U.S. “Détente” Strategy from Nixon to Ford - 1969 to 1977 | Sven F. Kraemer -- Inside the Reagan Revolution that won the Cold War

Part I -- ROOTS AND STRATEGIES OF THE COLD WAR BEFORE REAGAN

Topics

Nixon’s “Détente” Strategy—Objectives, Strategic Arms Control, and the SALT and ABM Treaties of 1972
Nixon’s Détente Strategy—The U.S.-Soviet “Détente Principles Agreement” and Two Congressional Amendments on “Linkage”
The Opening to China and the Shanghai Communiqué of 1972
Nixon’s “Vietnamization” Strategy and the Peace Accords of January 1973
Three Nixon Crises and their Impact on Détente: Pentagon Papers, Watergate, Impeachment, and Resignation—1971 to 1974
Ford and Détente: Congressional Politics, Democratic Party Defense Cuts, and Lost Leverage—August 1974 to 1976
Ford and Détente: The Fall of Vietnam and Other Dominoes and Aftershocks—1975
Ford and Détente: The Vladivostok and Helsinki Agreements of 1974 and 1975
Ford and Growing U.S. doubts about U.S. Détente Strategy: Soviet Militance and “Team B”