History of the United States II / Unit 15 USH2 2160 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Ford in Office
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The idea
Ford continued Nixon's policy of détente, and with Secretary of State Kissinger made further progress in a second round of arms talks, the anchor records.
In practice
The Yawp's account of large Democratic gains in the midterm elections of nineteen seventy-four.
Where people slip
Digital History records that Soviet missiles outnumbered American ones by half by nineteen seventy-five, feeding doubts about détente.
Your place on the trail
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Builds on
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