Person1913 – 1994
Richard Nixon
37th US president (1969–1974) who issued the Nixon Doctrine, visited China and pursued détente, and withdrew US troops from Vietnam; he resigned over Watergate
Where they went
2 related events
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In divided Vietnam, North Vietnam and the National Liberation Front fought US-backed South Vietnam. After the Americans withdrew, Saigon fell in 1975 and Vietnam was united under communist rule.
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US President Nixon visited Beijing, met Mao Zedong and issued the Shanghai Communiqué. Sino-American rapprochement ushered the Cold War into an era of détente.
People who appear alongside
- Ho Chi Minh1890 – 1969
Vietnamese independence leader who proclaimed the Democratic Republic of Vietnam in 1945 and led the wars against France and the United States
- Mao Zedong1893 – 1976
Chairman of the Chinese Communist Party who won the civil war and founded the People’s Republic in 1949, and launched the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution
- Zhou Enlai1898 – 1976
First premier of the People’s Republic of China (1949–1976), long in charge of diplomacy, who arranged Nixon’s 1972 visit
Themes this person appears in
- The Cold War1945 – 1991
From Yalta to the dissolution of the Soviet Union — half a century in which two blocs led by the US and the USSR divided the world