{"id":675,"date":"2023-12-01T12:23:02","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T11:23:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/?p=675"},"modified":"2025-07-07T18:44:36","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T16:44:36","slug":"henry-kissinger-dies-at-the-age-of-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/henry-kissinger-dies-at-the-age-of-100\/","title":{"rendered":"Henry Kissinger Dies At The Age Of 100"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Former <\/strong>American Secretary of State<\/strong> Henry Kissinger died at the age of 100. Kissinger was a German-born Jewish refugee <\/strong>who served under two presidents : Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the 1970s, Kissinger influenced <\/strong>US politics and world affairs<\/strong>. He travelled to Israel and Arab countries repeatedly <\/strong>in an attempt <\/strong>to bring peace to the Middle East. Kissinger also led secret <\/strong>talks with Communist China to bring it out of isolation<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1973 Henry Kissinger negotiated <\/strong>the Paris peace talks to get the United States out of the Vietnam War. This won him a Nobel Peace Prize<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Many world leaders including France’s Emmanuel Macron, Chinese President Xi Jinping and Russian president Vladimir Putin praised <\/strong>Kissinger for his ideas and diplomatic efforts<\/strong> to reach peace around the world<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Henry Kissinger in 1973<\/strong>
Image:<\/em> U.S. Department of State from United States<\/a>, Public domain,
via Wikimedia Commons<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Words<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
    \n
  • attempt <\/strong>= try<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • diplomatic efforts<\/strong> = here: to try to do something peacefully<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • former <\/strong>= in the past<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • influence <\/strong>= the power to change the way a country thinks about something<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • isolation <\/strong>= here:when you don’t have any contact with other countries<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • led <\/strong>= here: was in charge of<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Nobel Peace Prize<\/strong> = prize given to a person who has done a lot to stop conflicts and wars<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • negotiate <\/strong>= discuss something with other countries<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • praise<\/strong> = to admire someone and respect them<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • refugee <\/strong>= a person who has to leave their country because of a war or conflict<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • repeatedly <\/strong>= over and over again<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • secret <\/strong>= not many people know about something<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Secretary of State<\/strong> = head of a government department that deals with American relations with other countries<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • world affairs<\/strong> = problems in the world<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Former American Secretary of State Henry Kissinger died at the age of 100. Kissinger was a German-born Jewish refugee who served under two presidents : Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford. In the 1970s, Kissinger influenced US politics and world affairs. He travelled to Israel and Arab countries repeatedly in an attempt to bring peace to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,57,26],"tags":[42,58,34],"class_list":["post-675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-north-america","category-politics","category-world","tag-history","tag-politics","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=675"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":942,"href":"https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/675\/revisions\/942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.english-tutor.at\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}