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  • Cold War Detente (Season 1, Episode 16)
  • TV Episode | 47 min | Documentary, History

Cold War

Detente (Season 1, Episode 16)
TV Episode | 47 min | Documentary, History

The North Vietnamese overwhelm U.S.-backed forces in the South and the United States steps up its bombing campaign. Nixon goes to the Kremlin to meet Brezhnev and signs the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT). Kissinger negotiates with...See moreThe North Vietnamese overwhelm U.S.-backed forces in the South and the United States steps up its bombing campaign. Nixon goes to the Kremlin to meet Brezhnev and signs the Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT). Kissinger negotiates with North Vietnam and proclaims, "Peace is at hand." Nixon is re-elected, and the United States finally withdraws from Vietnam. In Europe, rapprochement between East and West culminates in the Helsinki Accord. Apollo and Soyuz meet in space. Written by Anonymous See less
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1998 (United States)
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Kenneth Branagh
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Anatoli Dobrynin
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Gerald Ford
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Henry Jackson
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Henry Kissinger
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Valery Kubasov
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Nguyen Van Thieu
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Spiro Agnew
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Willy Brandt
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Leonid Brezhnev
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John Chancellor
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Betty Ford
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Andrei Gromyko
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Alexander Haig
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Aleksey Kosygin
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Duc Tho Le
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Pat Nixon
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Richard Nixon
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Walter Scheel
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Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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