Criticisms Of The Détente Policy In The United States

1. The détente policy is a period of time when the United States and the Soviet Union improved relations with each other for a mutual benefit. The successes of this policy include: limiting nuclear weapons, increase trade, traveling between the United States and China, avoiding nuclear war, and reduced cost for preparing weapons. The criticisms of this policy include: promoting the support of communism, secretly widening the conflict in the Southeast Asia, and created the illusion that the Russians had abandoned their quest for global domination.
2. The War Powers resolution is a federal law that was made to check the president’s power to involve the United States in conflicts without the approval of congress. The importance of this is that

One of Carter’s social policies was to make sure there were as much minorities and females in senior government positions as possible. Since no other administration had done as much as he did in that aspect, this boosted his standings with blacks and white liberals. He attempted to implement an economic policy where he would give out a $50 rebate to all tax payers. This was extremely unsuccessful because he never actually went through with it. Some other somewhat successful policies included a $20.1 billion jobs program, and a bill to aid state and local governments during economic downswings. Eventually, his political agenda started coming to a halt and economic growth

My picked ten people are: Jimmy Carter, Richard Nixon, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Helen Gahagan Douglas, Harry S. Truman, William F. Knowland, Edmund G. "Pat" Brown, Ernest Angelo, Richard Schweiker. Jimmy Carter was the 39th president of the United States whose term was from 1977 to 1981. Jimmy Carter paved the path for Reagan to become president for two terms. Richard Nixon was the 37th president of the United States and was born in 1913. Nixon ended the American involvement in the war in Vietnam in 1973 and ended the military draft. Franklin D. Roosevelt was born in 1882 and served as the 32nd President from 1933 until death in 1945. Franklin D. Roosevelt was a central figure during the mid-20th Century and was a figure that was looked up to by several presidents. Nixon was hired in a job in Franklin Roosevelt’s office of Price Administration. Helen Gahagan Douglas was born in 1900 and was the first Deomocratic Woman elected to congress from California. She developed a close friend ship with Franklin D. Roosevelt after his election into office. Harry S. Truman was born in 1884 and was the 33rd president of the United States. He took the office after Franklin D. Roosevelt died in office. Truman was a major contributor to the cold war through the Truman Doctrine. William F. Knowland was born in 1908 and was a United States Senator Representing California from 1945 to 1959. He was known for being htem ost powerful senator with foreign policy. He assisted in setting national