ABSTRACT
In the late 1960s, three events, seemingly unrelated, began to shape the Soviet-American economic relationship. In 1967, Israel won a resounding victory over a coalition of Arab states in the Six-Day War. At about the same time, in Moscow, Leonid Brezhnev was consolidating his power and looking for ways to push the Soviet economy forward after the fizzling of a mid-1960s reform effort. In the United States, Richard Nixon became president and brought Henry Kissinger to Washington with him.
