détente
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Détente lowered tensions with Moscow to reduce pressure on the U.S.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 17, 2025
Détente opened up both the Communist World and squares on the geopolitical chessboard.
From Forbes • Jun. 13, 2014
Topics: pete seeger, , , File-This May 13, 1975, file photo shows folk singer Pete Seeger, left, performing at the Rally for Détente at Carnegie Hall in New York.
From Salon • Jan. 28, 2014
Détente, a policy of lessening Cold War tensions, replaced brinkmanship under Richard M. Nixon.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012
Détente, launched in 1972 by Richard Nixon and Brezhnev to the clink of champagne glasses under the crystal chandeliers at the Kremlin, had eroded badly.
From Time Magazine Archive
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