How Charles de Gaulle Challenges America and Befriends the Soviet Union
At the height of the Cold War, de Gaulle made an official visit to the Soviet Union. He was received with unprecedented respect, a declaration of cooperation was signed and de Gaulle clearly demonstrated to Washington that France was capable of playing a completely independent geopolitical game.
A few months earlier, de Gaulle sent an official letter to President Johnson of the United States, in which he stated that the country was leaving the combined military command of the North Atlantic Alliance, and later publicly announced the return of France to the gold standard.
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