On May 29, Nixon and Brezhnev concluded the conference, with the signing of a joint declaration of long-range plans to avoid a military confrontation and to eventually disarm. The SALT I treaty, product of the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks, froze the number of strategic ballistic missile launchers at existing levels, while the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty restricted both sides to only two sites for anti-ballistic missiles, with 100 missiles each. On May 26, Nixon and Brezhnev signed two landmark nuclear arms control agreements.

On May 24, Nixon and Premier of the Soviet Union Alexei Kosygin signed an agreement paving the way for the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. On May 23, Nixon and Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet Nikolai Podgorny signed the Agreement on Cooperation in the Field of Environmental Protection. Nixon’s historic visit to China in February 1972 was hailed (perhaps hyperbolically) as the week that changed the world. But Nixon did not foresee China’s transformation along democratic lines and considered it a. Nixon’s visit to China in February 1972 initiated a process of normalisation and a shift in the international power balance decisively in favour of the West. One month later, on 15 August 1971, Nixon was back on television to announce a bombshell decision to unilaterally. Later that evening, a banquet was held at the Kremlin. The US was bogged down in Vietnam and urgently in need of a relaxation of external pressure. On 15 July 1971, onetime arch-Cold Warrior Richard Nixon went on television to make the stunning announcement that he would visit the People’s Republic of China, at the time the United States’ bitterest enemy, in early 1972. Nixon and Brezhnev engaged in unscheduled talks on that first day. First Lady of the United States Pat Nixon also made the trip. Roosevelt, to visit the Soviet Union), as he and Henry Kissinger arrived to begin a summit meeting with Brezhnev. president to visit Moscow (and only the second president, after Franklin D. The summit followed in the wake of the historic 1972 Nixon visit to China earlier that year, with the Nixon administration soon concluding negotiations for the president to visit the Soviet Union. Zhou began the meeting by discovering the Americans were non-smokers.

provided China with more than 48 billion in lend-lease support. The memo includes a note that from 1940 to 1948, the U.S. The summit is considered one of the hallmarks of the détente at the time between the two Cold War antagonists. Memorandum regarding a draft transcript of the Jmeetings between Henry Kissinger and Premier Zhou Enlai. It featured the signing of the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM) Treaty, the first Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT I), and the U.S.–Soviet Incidents at Sea agreement. Nixon of the United States and General Secretary Leonid Brezhnev of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The Moscow Summit of 1972 was a summit meeting between President Richard M. Nixon and Brezhnev signing the SALT agreement during the summit

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