Détente - Definition, Policy & Cold War
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Détente (a French word meaning release from tension) is the name given to a period of improved relations between the United States and the Soviet Union that began tentatively in 1969 and took decisive form in 1972 when President Richard Nixon visited Secretary General of the Soviet Communist party Leonid Brezhnev in Moscow.
The top secret nuclear football accompanies the president at all times.
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Détente - Wikipedia
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Détente A Visual Guide to the Cold War
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11.2: Détente, Decline, and Domestic Politics - Humanities LibreTexts
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The Diplomacy of Détente: Cooperative Security Policies from Helmut Schmidt to George Shultz (Cold War History): 9780367590345: Kieninger, Stephan: Books
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U.S. Foreign Policy - Europe
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Détente: Definition, PDF, Cold War
Détente and U.S.-Soviet Relations, 1969-1985
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70s and 80s: Detente and the End of the Cold War
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