Nixon visits China
1972 · Event
U.S. president meets Mao Zedong; ends two decades of diplomatic estrangement.
On these timelines: Master, China, USA
Around 1972
- Iranian Revolution (1978)
- Vietnam War (American phase) (1965)
- Yom Kippur War (1973)
- Apollo 11 moon landing (1969)
- The Troubles (1968)
- Six-Day War (1967)
- Cuban Missile Crisis (1962)
- Watergate scandal (1972)
- Prague Spring (1968)
- Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody (1975)