Word: 1960sâ
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Dates: during 1972-1972
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Diplomatic Game. Nixon's new policy is a direct shift away from the cold war rigidity and messianism of the 1950s and early 1960s???an ideological policy based upon a national agreement that the U.S. had a moral responsibility to contain Communism. As Harvard Political Scientist Stanley Hoffmann observes, "The external development of the 1960s made obsolete the strategy that had been devised in the late 1940s. The war in Viet Nam destroyed the consensus. In a way, this may have been a service?at what a price?for it forced Americans to face the obsolescence of policy earlier than...
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