Sino-US relations, 1972-76

Question 1

What did Nixon’s visit to China in 1972 begin?

Answer 1

A new era of Sino-US relations

Question 2

What did Nixon and Kissinger want to move away from?

Answer 2

A bipolar world of superpower confrontation to a multipolar world in which different powers dealt with each other by negotiation

Question 3

What was Nixon’s and Kissinger’s policy known as?

Answer 3

Triangular diplomacy

Question 4

What did Nixon attempt to do in practise?

Answer 4

Foster friendly relations with the USSR and China, and in so doing played the two powers off each other

Question 5

What happened following Nixon’s resignation?

Answer 5

President Ford continued Nixon’s policy of triangular diplomacy