Nixon held office during the Cold War, a sustained period of geopolitical tension between the United States and the Soviet Union.
Nixon’s foreign policy focused on detente with the Soviet Union and China, as he sought to move awake from traditional ideological conflicts and the policy of containment.
East Germany
The official name of East Germany was the German Democratic Republic. It was a communist state aligned in the orbit of the Soviet Union.
The Allies of World War II divided Germany into four zones of control after the war -- each zone occupied by one of the Allied nations -- Britain, France, the USA, and the USSR. The same thing was done for the city of Berlin, which was in the Soviet-controlled zone (East Germany). East Berlin was governed under Soviet control, and West Berlin was governed by the western Allies -- Britain, France and the USA. The British, French and American sectors were combined into West Germany (and West Berlin), and the eastern area became "East Germany," a satellite of the Soviet Union.
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Black slaves played a major, though unwilling and generally unrewarded, role in laying the economic foundations of the United States—especially in the South. Blacks also played a leading role in the development of Southern speech, folklore, music, dancing, and food, blending the cultural traits of their African homelands with those of Europe. During the 17th and 18th centuries, African and African American (those born in the New World) slaves worked mainly on the tobacco, rice, and indigo plantations of the Southern seaboard. Eventually slavery became rooted in the South’s huge cotton and sugar plantations. Although Northern businessmen made great fortunes from the trade of enslaved peoples and from investments in Southern plantations, slavery was never widespread in the North.
The 70s and 80s saw the United States go through several incidents which shook the foundation of the Federal Government.
The unpopular Vietnam war had dragged on despite, hundreds of protests all over the country. By all accounts, the United States eventually lost the war and suffered numerous losses.
In between, the American government suffered from an Oil shortage due to OPEC embargo, raising the prices of fuel and bringing the country to a standstill.
The early end of the 70s saw the Iranian revolution take place, which overthrew the American backed Dictator, Reza Shah and the country entered the 80s with a crippling economic downturn.
