détente
Sign in to savethumb|Leonid Brezhnev (left), [[Viktor Sukhodrev (center), and Richard Nixon (right) during Brezhnev's 1973 visit to Washington, D.C., a high-water mark in détente between the United States and the Soviet Union]]
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13 sectionsContents
- History
- Cold War
- Summits and treaties
- End of Vietnam War
- Strategic Arms Limitations Talks
- Apollo–Soyuz handshake
- Concurrent conflicts
- Reignited tensions and the end of the first ''détente''
- Cuban thaw
- See also
- References
- Works cited
- Further reading
thumb|Leonid Brezhnev (left), [[Viktor Sukhodrev (center), and Richard Nixon (right) during Brezhnev's 1973 visit to Washington, D.C., a high-water mark in détente between the United States and the Soviet Union]]
Détente ( , ; , ) is the relaxation of strained relations, especially political ones, through verbal communication. The diplomacy term originates from around 1912, when France and Germany tried unsuccessfully to reduce tensions.