Richard Nixon is remembered as the president who carried out a pivotal shift in the US’ postwar foreign policy. His foreign policy included the Nixon Doctrine, a thaw with China, and a détente ...

Half a century ago, Richard Nixon sought to split China from Russia. Fifty years later, President Trump is doing the reverse. He is trying to split Russia from China. Then and now, each man’s strategy ...

The breakthrough with China and a detente with the Soviets soon followed in the 1970s, which was endorsed by the American people, who rewarded Nixon with one of the largest ever margins of victory ...

Here is a radical thought. Whether history repeats, rhymes or reverts, despite two personalities that could not be more ...

Nixon, Detente, and Sino-American Normalization, The Arms Race, 1963-1975, Espionage, Covert Action, and the Cold War, Counter-Cultures: The Rebellions against the Cold War Order, 1965-1975, Germany, ...

Nixon and Brezhnev, National Archives Mutually Assured Destruction The key weapon of the Cold War, the nuclear bomb, was never used during that conflict, but the possibility of its use cast a long ...

This was the first time a President of the USA had been in the Soviet Union since 1945. Nixon met Brezhnev, leader of the USSR. In the 1970s, the Soviet economy was in trouble and had to look to ...

President Nixon tried to quell inflation by dropping the gold standard, freezing prices, and raising tariffs. The effort ultimately backfired. Is President Trump’s trade war going to be his ...