History of the United States II / Unit 15 USH2 2127 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Nixon in China
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The idea
In nineteen seventy-two Nixon became the first American president to visit Communist China, and the first since Franklin Roosevelt to visit the Soviet Union, the Yawp records.
In practice
Nixon meeting Mao Zedong in Beijing.
Where people slip
The Yawp says Nixon exploited tensions between China and the Soviet Union to strengthen the American position with both.
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