Chapter 7
Category: Other
Updated: 17 Dec 2019
Contributors
Created byFranziska Klein
Attachments
Events
Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution (China)Chinese-American diplomacyNixon accepts invitation to ChinaNew era in Chinese-American relationsHanoi bombing (December/Christmas bombings)Strategic Arms Limitation Talks Agreement (SALT I)"Nixon Shocks"last American troops leave Vietnam --> ends war (for US)begin Watergate investigations1st balance-of-trade deficit in 20th centuryCambodian Communists attack US vessel - Ford retaliatesPeople's Republic of AngolaHelsinki AgreementSU airlift Forces to AfricaCommunist seizure of power in Afghanistan + Victory over Khmer Rouge (Cambodia)Panama treatiesCamp David accordsrecognition of Bejing as governmentSALT IIhostage Crisis in Iran (Iranian Revolution)Soviet Invasion of Afghanistanelection yearelection yearPeriods
37. US president: Richard Nixon38. US president: Gerald Ford39. US president: Jimmy CarterGeneral Secretary of Soviet Union: Leonid BrezhnevPrague SpringJapan foreign Minister: Sato EisakuSix-Day-War between Israel, Egypt and SyriaGerman Chancellor: Willy BrandtYom Kippur war
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