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The Watergate Scandal:
As Nixon was about to run for the 1972 election the Republicans were accused of a crime.
5 men were caught trying to break into the Watergate hotel (headquarters) to place bugs.
The investigation led to much more corruptness and also implicated Nixon in the Cover up.
Nixon resigned before he could be impeached.
Elected 37th President in 1968
Promised to End the Vietnam war
Pulled troops but increased bombing campaign, implemented Vietnamization
began a policy of Detente to lessen Cold war tensions
Resigned after being implemented in Watergate Scandal, 1972
Detente:
Reasons why U.S. sought detente:
Nuclear and strategic Parity - The Russians had caught the U.S. in most military areas (caused them to want to think of other options)
Early Success:
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (Limit the spread of Nuclear weapons) Signed by Johnson in 1968 (France and China do not sign it)
Many, like Henry Kissinger, felt detente was just a new form of containment
Ostpolitik:
German for "East Politics"
Western German leade, Willy Brandt wished to unite the Germans.
Wanted improved relations between the two.
1972 a basic Treaty was signed with east Germany.
Accused of selling out to the Communist East Germany, others see it as another detente.
The Helsinki Accords, 1975:
USA, USSR, France, UK and 31 other countries met in 1975 in Finland
Agreed to:
Accept european frontiers (diplomatic victory for USSR and relieved tensions in Eastern Europe)
To respect human rights (in particular the USSR)
To make easier movement across borders
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT)
Talks began in1969, between US and USSR.
By 1972 the first SALT treaty (SALT) agreed that both countries would limit their numbers of ICBMs.
SALT II, 1979, intended to accomplish Nuclear parity.
SALT II got interrupted by the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
1980 Ronald Reagan became President and ended detente
As Nixon was about to run for the 1972 election the Republicans were accused of a crime.
5 men were caught trying to break into the Watergate hotel (headquarters) to place bugs.
The investigation led to much more corruptness and also implicated Nixon in the Cover up.
Nixon resigned before he could be impeached.
Elected 37th President in 1968
Promised to End the Vietnam war
Pulled troops but increased bombing campaign, implemented Vietnamization
began a policy of Detente to lessen Cold war tensions
Resigned after being implemented in Watergate Scandal, 1972
Detente:
Reasons why U.S. sought detente:
Nuclear and strategic Parity - The Russians had caught the U.S. in most military areas (caused them to want to think of other options)
Early Success:
Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (Limit the spread of Nuclear weapons) Signed by Johnson in 1968 (France and China do not sign it)
Many, like Henry Kissinger, felt detente was just a new form of containment
Ostpolitik:
German for "East Politics"
Western German leade, Willy Brandt wished to unite the Germans.
Wanted improved relations between the two.
1972 a basic Treaty was signed with east Germany.
Accused of selling out to the Communist East Germany, others see it as another detente.
The Helsinki Accords, 1975:
USA, USSR, France, UK and 31 other countries met in 1975 in Finland
Agreed to:
Accept european frontiers (diplomatic victory for USSR and relieved tensions in Eastern Europe)
To respect human rights (in particular the USSR)
To make easier movement across borders
Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT)
Talks began in1969, between US and USSR.
By 1972 the first SALT treaty (SALT) agreed that both countries would limit their numbers of ICBMs.
SALT II, 1979, intended to accomplish Nuclear parity.
SALT II got interrupted by the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
1980 Ronald Reagan became President and ended detente
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Had the Watergate Scandal not transpired, would Nixon have been reelected? Would later presidencies be affected? Would detente and Vietnamization have conspired differently?
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http://www.whitehouse.gov/1600/presidents/richardnixon
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