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LaFeber America Russia and the Cold War Cover
America, Russia, and the Cold War 1945 - 2002: Updated, 9/e
Walter LaFeber, Cornell University
A New Containment: The Rise and Fall of Detente (1966-1976)

Primary Source Documents

President Richard Nixon - Remarks to Midwestern News Media - July 6 1971

Transcript of Kissingers News Conference on the Status of Vietnam Peace Negotiations

Henry Kissinger - U.S. Foreign Policy - Finding Strength through Adversity April 17 1975



1

How did Nixon complicate earlier Cold War visions of geopolitics as a battle between the Soviet Union and the United States?
2

What kinds of domestic problems were impeding the United States from assuming its proper role among the five great powers described by Nixon?
3

What kinds of obstacles to peace did Kissinger discuss in his presentation of the peace negotiations with Vietnam in October 1972? What, from his perspective, had held up the process? What issues did his interrogators raise?
4

How did Kissinger acknowledge the new contours of global politics? How did he envision the United States' role in this new world order?








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