President Nixon's Cold War Foreign Policy

Background Image: 1970 World Map Political Boundaries
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China, 1972 | Nixon's Visit to China: U.S. President Richard Nixon, Chinese Premier Zhou Enlai
Everett Collection Inc/Alamy Stock Photo

China, 1971 | Ping-Pong Diplomacy: Ping Pong player Zhuang Zedong and Glenn Cowan 
The Asahi Shimbun/Getty Images

Southeast Asia, 1968 | Vietnam and Nixon's Campaign: Nixon 1968 campaign
Ollie Atkins, White House photographer

Southeast Asia, 1970 | "Incursion" into Cambodia: Nixon Incursion into Cambodia
Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum

The Soviet Union, May 1972 | Signing of the SALT Treaty: Nixon and Brezhnev SALT
Hum Historical / Alamy Stock Photo

The Middle East, 1973 | Yom Kippur War: Nixon, Kissinger, and Golda Meir
Everett Collection Inc / Alamy Stock Photo

The Middle East, 1974 | Kissinger's Shuttle Diplomacy: Kissinger and Sadat
Associated Press

Chile, 1970–73 | Allende and the CIA: National Security Memo
National Security Archive at George Washington University

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