President Nixon pursued two important policies that both culminated in 1972. In February he visited Beijing, setting in motion normalization of relations with the People's Republic of China. In May, he traveled to the Soviet Union and signed agreements that contained the results of the first Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty talks (SALT I), and new negotiations were begun to extend further arms control and disarmament measures.These developments marked the beginning of a period of “détente” in line with a general tendency among Americans to favor a lower profile in world affairs after the Vietnam War, which finally ended in 1975 with the last withdrawal of U.S. personnel. While improvements in relations with the Soviet Union and the People’s Republic of China signaled a possible thaw in the Cold War, they did not lead to general improvement in the international climate. The international economy experienced considerable instability, leading to a significant modification of the international financial system in place since the end of World War II.
During the Nixon Administration, international scientific, technological, and environmental issues grew in prominence. In October 1973, Congress passed legislation creating the Bureau of Oceans and International Environments and Scientific Affairs (OES), to handle environmental issues, weather, oceans, Antarctic affairs, atmosphere, fisheries, wildlife conservation, health, and population matters. The Department had difficulty filling the new Assistant Secretary position until January 1975, when the former Atomic Energy Commissioner, Dixie Lee Ray, took the job. However, she resigned six months later claiming that OES was not playing a significant policy role.
Although Secretary Rogers still had broad responsibility for foreign policy, including Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, and international organizations, the Department of State resented its exclusion from key policy decisions, and the Secretary continually fought to make his views known.
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This was during the Cold War and Fidel Castro was a Communist (America as a whole did not like Communism and Communists * cough * Soviet Union * cough*) and since Cuba is right off the coast of the USA they were worried about nuclear weapons and missiles (The Cuban Missile Crisis) they tried (and failed) to overthrow the Communist leader.
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because he wanted to bring the Nation back together as quickly as possible and in December 1863 he offered his plan for Reconstruction which required that the States new constitutions prohibit slavery.
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He nationalized the oil reserves and the rights for extraction of the oil.
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Venezuela is a country that is very rich in oil, in fact it is the country that officially has the largest oil reserves in the world. Considering the fact that the oil is what brings in the majority of the income of this nation, plus the communist politics, Chavez nationalized all the oil reserves and the extraction of the same fall into the hands of the government. This angered the USA officials, as they are the biggest consumer of oil and always want to have control on the situation. Chavez though stood his ground, and that made the relations between the USA and Venezuela even worse, though in all fairness Venezuela has the right to do whatever it wants with its natural resources, so the USA has no right to tell them what to do or how should they do it.
