Richard M. Nixon's Strategic Arms Limitation Talks
Richard M. Nixon commenced a new policy called Détente, which is a French word that means “release from tension,” with the implementation of this new policy the relations between the Soviet Union and the United States improved, it was something completely different to the period of Confrontations and Surrogated Interventions. During the period of Détente, Nixon reduced the policy of containment, emphasizing the talks concerning discussions of ways to control nuclear weapons. One of the approaches made by Nixon was when he visited Moscow, Russia, and signed seven agreements that include space exploration and arms control, the discussion of this last topic was made during a series of talks called: Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (S.A.L.T). But
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The fall of the Berlin Wall was the moment that symbolizes the end of the Cold War; no longer was a division between Eastern and Western Europe, the Soviet Union focused more on its domestic restoration and China adopted a foreign policy of free commerce with the United States and other capitalist countries and avoiding wars. With the end of the Cold War, the toppling of the Berlin War and the change in the governments of the China and the Soviet Union, the world was entering a new period of Uni-polarity, where the main political-economic and social system is the democratic capitalism. It is important to clarify that History does not stop and even today, countries that were still implementing Communism keep threating global peace by trying to provoke Confrontations with democratic countries, for instance, North Korea whose nuclear military development has become a threat using by its government against the United
The fall of the Berlin Wall was the moment that symbolizes the end of the Cold War; no longer was a division between Eastern and Western Europe, the Soviet Union focused more on its domestic restoration and China adopted a foreign policy of free commerce with the United States and other capitalist countries and avoiding wars. With the end of the Cold War, the toppling of the Berlin War and the change in the governments of the China and the Soviet Union, the world was entering a new period of Uni-polarity, where the main political-economic and social system is the democratic capitalism. It is important to clarify that History does not stop and even today, countries that were still implementing Communism keep threating global peace by trying to provoke Confrontations with democratic countries, for instance, North Korea whose nuclear military development has become a threat using by its government against the United