Ella History 12
  • Home
  • Paris Peace Treaty
    • Paris Peace Treaty- Blog
    • Motives of the USA
    • Motives of France
    • Motives of Great Britain
    • Woodrow Wilsons 14 points
    • The Big three
    • The War Guilt Clause
    • Nationalism and Formation of New Countries
    • War Reparations
    • The Treaties with Lesser Powers
    • The League of Nations (Collective Security)
  • Russia 1917-1945
    • Russia Blog
    • Abduction of the Tsar
    • The Provisional Government
    • The Bolsheviks
    • October/November Revolution 1917- and Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, 1918
    • Vladimir Lenin
    • Russian Civil War 1919-21
    • War Communism
    • “Socialism in One Country” and Stalin vs Trotsky and Lenins Death
    • Collectivization
    • Industrialization, 5 year plans- 1928-1941
    • Show Trials and the Great Purges
    • Nazi-Soviet Non Aggression Pact
    • Operation Barbarossa
    • Stalingrad
  • USA 1920's and 30's
    • Blog
    • A Consumer Society
    • Henry Ford, Assembly Lines and the Model T
    • The Jazz Age
    • Isolationism
    • The Washington Naval Conference, 1921
    • The Dawes Plan, 1924
    • The Young Plan, 1929
    • Buying on the Margin
    • Black Tuesday, October 22, 1929: Stock Market Crash
    • Herbert Hoover and the Hoovervilles
    • Franklin D. Roosevelt and the 100 Days
    • The New Deal
    • Alphabet Agencies
    • John Maynard Keynes
    • Fireside Chats
  • Europe in the 1920's and 30's
    • Blog
    • The Weimar Republic
    • The Maginot Line
    • The Beer Hall Putsch (Munich Putsch) and Mein Kampf
    • Mussolini and Rise of Fascism
    • Locarno and Kellogg- Briand Pacts
    • Gustaf Stresemann and The Dawes Plan
    • Early Acts of Appeasement
    • Final Acts of Appeasement
    • The Spanish Civil War
    • Hitler and the Rise of Nazism
    • Anti Semitism and the Holocaust
  • Early Cold War 1945- 1963
    • Early Cold War Blog
    • The Cold War
    • Changes in the USA Gov't after World War II
    • Buffer Zones and Satellite States
    • The Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan
    • 1948 Coup in Czechoslovakia
    • The Berlin Blockade/Airlift 1948
    • NATO and Warsaw Pact
    • The Korean War, 1950-53
    • McCarthyism
    • Nikita Krushchev and De-Stalinization
    • Eisenhower Doctrine
    • The Hungarian Uprising, 1956
    • The Space Race and Inter Continental Ballistic Missiles (ICBM’s)
    • The Rise of John F. Kennedy
    • The Berlin Wall, 1961
    • The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
    • The Assassination of John F. Kennedy, 1963
    • Never seen before
  • World War ll
    • Blog
    • Invasion of Poland
    • Invasion of Norway and Low Countries
    • Invasion of France
    • The Battle of Britain
    • The Battle of the Atlantic
    • North Africa
    • Italy in Greece and Yugoslavia
    • Operation Barbarossa
    • Pearl Harbour
    • Japan's need for NAtural Resources
    • Turning Point 1943: Stalingrad, Kursk, El Alamein
    • Island Hopping
    • Invasion of Italy
    • D-Day
    • The Manhattan Project
    • The Battle of the Bulge
    • Iwo Juma and Okinawa
    • The Fall of Germany and Hitler's DEath
    • hiroshima and Nagasaki
    • The Wartime Conferences: The Opening Shots
    • Cold War
    • Advances in Technology
    • The Nuremburg Trials
  • Late Cold War 1963-1991
    • Blog
    • The Gulf of Tonkin and the Vietnam War
    • Ho chi Minh and Vietcong
    • Vietnamization
    • the Leonid Brezhnev Era
    • Lyndon B. Johnson
    • Mutually Assured Destruction (MAD)
    • Czechoslovakia, 1968
    • Richard Nixon and Detente
    • Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter
    • (SALT) I and II 1972, 1974 and Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty
    • The Helsinki Accords, 1975
    • Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan, 1979
    • Ronald Reagan
    • Star Wars and Strategic Defense Initiative
    • Mikhail Gorbachev
    • Perestoika and Glasnost
    • The Falling of the Berlin Wall, 1989
    • Coup in Russia, 1991
  • China 1919-1991
    • China Blog
    • Chiang Kai-Shek and the Kuomintang
    • The Chinese Communist Party
    • The Japanese and Manchuria
    • The Stimson Doctrine
    • The Long March, 1934
    • Mao Tse-Tung (Zedong)
    • Chinese Civil War, 1946-1949
    • Taiwan
    • The Korean War and Yalu River
    • The Great Leap Forward, 1956
    • The Cultural Revolution, 1966-1976
    • Mao dies, 1976
    • Deng Xiaoping takes over, 1978
    • Special Economic Zones
    • Tiannamen Square, 1989
  • Middle East 1919-1991
    • Middle East Blog
    • French and English Mandates
    • The Balfour Declaration, 1917
    • The Israeli War of Independence, 1948
    • The Suez Crisis, 1956
    • The Six Days War, 1967
    • The Yom Kippur War, 1973
    • Anwar Sadat
    • The Camp David Accords, 1978
    • The Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO)
    • The Iran-Iraq War,1980-1988
    • Yasser Arafat
    • Saddam Hussein
    • Kuwait and the Gulf War, 1991
  • Civil Rights, India and South Africa
    • Blog
    • Apartheid and South African Human Rights Violations
    • Nelson Mandela
    • Soweto Massacre
    • Sharpeville Massacre
    • Pass Laws
    • Role of the United Nations (UN
    • African National Congress (ANC)
    • Mahatma Gandhi
    • Amritsar, 1919
    • Self Rule and the Salt March, 1929
    • Partition
    • Muhammad Ali Jinnah and the Muslim League, 1947-48
    • India and Pakistan (Bangladesh)
    • Martin Luther King
    • Great Society
    • Malcolm X
    • Black Panthers
    • Little Rock
    • Universal Suffrage and the Right to Vote
    • Margaret Thatcher (The Falkland Islands War, 1982)
    • Indira Gandhi and Women’s Rights
    • Golda Meir
    • Benazir Bhutto
    • Birth Control
    • Equal Pay
  • Badges/ Awards

Richard Nixon and Detente 

    • Elected 37th President in 1968
    • Promised to end the Vietnam war
    • Pulled troops but increased bombing campaign, implemented Vietnamization
    • Began a policy of Détente to lessen Cold War tensions
    • Resigned after being implemented in Watergate scandal, 1972

    Summary: Richard Nixon won the 37th election in 1968 and he promised to end the Vietnam War. He implemented Vietnamization and began the policy of detente to cool down the Cold War tensions. He resigned before he could be impeached, after he took part in the watergate scandal.

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 for the Democrats) 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

    Summary: Nixon tried to cover up the Watergate scandal, he resigned before he could be impeached. Gerald Ford takes power after Nixon resigned, he was chosen. Nixon is remembered as tricky dicky, he was a liar and tried to cover things up. Although he was proped for ending the Vietnam War

Detente ( A Relaxation of Tension)
  • Reasons why U.S. sought détente:
  • 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 détente was just a new form of containment

Summary: Tried to prevent other countries to possess Nuclear weapons. Nuclear Non- Proliferation Treaty limited the spread of Nulcear weapons, France and China do not sign this treaty.. they later get Nuclear weapons. Kissinger felt that it could be a new form of containment which could stop the threat spreading communism and nuclear weapon possession. 

Ostpolitik
  • German for ‘east politics’
  • Western German leader, Willy Brandt wished to unite the Germanys
  • 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 détente move

Summary: Ostpolitik was known as the normalization of relations between the Federal Republic of Germany ( West Germany) and Eastern Europe ( particularly East Germany). WIlly Brandt wished to untie the Germanys together, a Basic Treaty was signed in 1972. Later on he was accuses of selling out the East Germany as it was seen as an action of detente. 
Picture
    When the President does it, that means that it's not illegal. 
    -Richard M. Nixon 
Subjunctive Question: 
What would have happened if Nixon had followed through with the peace he had promised?
Picture
Picture
Powered by Create your own unique website with customizable templates.