Richard Nixon rose through the political ranks as a staunch anti-communist; however, the policy of his predecessors brought the world to the brink of nuclear war and brought the U.S. into an expensive and increasingly unpopular war.

Nixon embraced the policy of détente, a relaxing of tensions with the communist world. He negotiated the SALT ITreaty, established relations with Communist China, and established the Nixon Doctrine of assisting allies with money and weapons, but not with U.S. troops.

The Nixon Doctrine was applied in Vietnam with the Vietnamizationof the war. Nixon declared “Peace with Honor” when the last U.S. troops left Vietnam, but Saigon fell to the communists just two years later.

Nixon employed the Madman Theory so that his adversaries would believe he was unpredictable.

SUMMARY Richard Nixon rose through the political ranks as a staunch anti-

communist; however, the policy of his predecessors brought the world to the brink of nuclear war and brought the U.S. into an expensive and increasingly unpopular war.

Nixon embraced the policy of détente, a relaxing of tensions with the communist world. He negotiated the SALT ITreaty, established relations with Communist China, and established the Nixon Doctrine of assisting allies with money and weapons, but not with U.S. troops.

The Nixon Doctrine was applied in Vietnam with the Vietnamizationof the war. Nixon declared “Peace with Honor” when the last U.S. troops left Vietnam, but Saigon fell to the communists just two years later.

Nixon employed the Madman Theory so that his adversaries would believe he was unpredictable.