In May ’68, Moscow sent its tanks into Czechoslovakia to crush the “Prague Spring” and gave us “The Brezhnev Doctrine ... Forty years later, Nixon’s White House rejoiced when General ...

Nixon and Brezhnev, National Archives Mutually Assured Destruction The key weapon of the Cold War, the nuclear bomb, was never used during that conflict, but the possibility of its use cast a long ...

US president Richard Nixon and Leonid Brezhnev, leader of the Soviet Union, at the signing of SALT I in 1972 There were two Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) agreed between the USA and the ...

This was the first time a President of the USA had been in the Soviet Union since 1945. Nixon met Brezhnev, leader of the USSR. In the 1970s, the Soviet economy was in trouble and had to look to ...